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emanuel dimas de melo pimenta
world premiere | solo piano

        

          
 
 
          

            
Foz Palace | Lisbon | Portugal
January 24 | 2010 | 6:30 pm
          
        
      

      
admittance free

      

      

      
in memory of Maria de Lourdes Sekkef
to Edson Zampronha

      
       the music score

      
MARS is a solo piano composed at the end
      of 2010. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, when I lived in Sao
      Paulo, Brazil, I studied with a wonderful music teacher, Maria
      de Lourdes Sekeff. She was a lovely person. Interestingly, we
      both received the Association of Art Critics, linked to AICA,
      in the same year, in 1986. In classes and lectures her son, Edson
      Zampronha, was always present, then a fifteen years old boy or
      so. Today, Edson is a renowned composer. In 2008, Maria de Lourdes
      Sekeff passed away. MARS was composed in her memory and dedicated
      to Edson Zampronha. The piece is entirely composed after images
      from a specific area of the red planet, known as Solis Planum.
      The composition lasts for sixty minutes.

      
Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta

        

          

            
 

            
 

            
 

            
 

            
 

            
 

            
 

            
 

            
 

            
many thanks to my dear
            friend Anabela Baptista

            
as well as to my personal
            assistants in this concert, Filipa Franca and Teresa Nunes
          
          

            
Emanuel
            Pimenta

            
Maria de Lourdes Sekeff

            
Edson
            Zampronha

            
Palacio Foz, Lisbon

            
 

            
 

            
 

            
 

            
 

            

              

                
 
 
                

                  
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