Atempo

Medieval Music

CURRICULUM  VITAE

       The ensemble ATEMPO, created at the end of 1992, brings together musicians who, besides their individual work and collective research, propose the diffusion of the ample repertoire of the Middle Ages in Occidental Europe. Its members, who graduated from UNI-RIO (University of Rio de Janeiro) and went on to study in Parisian Conservatories, have developed their Medieval Music knowledge at the Mediaeval Music Center of Paris (with the members of Alla Francesca). They have also participated, as scholarship recipients, of courses at the Royal Royaumont Abbey Foundation under Marcel Pérès (director of the Organum Ensemble); on Hildegard von Bingen, with members of Micrologus Ensemble (on the Codex Rossi 215); and with Adolfo Broegg, director of the same group, in Italy.

        ATEMPO has played concerts in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Curitiba, Recife and other states in Brazil. They have also performed in many towns in France, and in Montevideo.They have participated as members and guest artists of many important early music groups in Rio de Janeiro, including the ensembles Século, Bene+Dictus, Quadro Cervantes, Longa Florata, UFF Early Music Ensemble and Anonimus. Besides teaching their own instruments, the musicians from ATEMPO regularly organize and teach Medieval Music Courses. They have recently founded the Medieval Music Association of Rio de Janeiro.

       

        CURRICULUM of the individual members of the group:

Elizete Bernabé – She received her diploma in Music Teaching from UNIRIO, Rio de Janeiro in 1989. She also has a Degree in Performance (Voice) from the Châtillon Conservatory in Paris, where she studied under Anne-Marie Hellot in 1998. At the same time she specialized at the Medieval Music Center of Paris with Brigitte Lesne and Emmanuel Bonnardot. She studied singing with Heloisa Madeira (RJ), Jasmin Martorell (France), having taken part in workshops with Monique Zanetti and Jerôme Correas (France). Nowadays she studies with Carol McDavit. From 1986 to 1993 she studied the recorder with Laura Rónai and she taught this instrument to the Music Therapy Class at the Brazilian Conservatory of Music, in 1995. She participated as singer and flutist of the groups Anonimus, Caliope, Século, Canticuori and Bene+Dictus.

Pedro Hasselmann Novaes - As a scholarship recipient, Mr. Novaes was a student of Pierre Hamon at the Conservatoire Érik Satie, in Paris, from 1996 to 1998, graduating as First Prize and Best Grade of the Year among the recorder candidates at the Paris Conservatories’ Contest (1998). During this time he was also a regular student at the Medieval Music Center of Paris, where he studied fiddle with Emmanuel Bonnardot. He had studied the fiddle before, in 1992, under the guidance of Mario Orlando Guimarães. In Brazil he was also a student of flutist Laura Rónai. He is a member of the ensemble Século (which specializes in Renaissance and Baroque music) and he has performed as guest artist with the groups Quadro Cervantes and Bene+Dictus. He participated in the recording of the CD “Annua Gaudia” of the group Longa Florata. He is a founder and professor at the “Núcleo de Música Antiga” (Nucleus for Early Music) at the Escola de Música Villa-Lobos, Rio de Janeiro.

ALCIMAR DO LAGO – He started to study the recorder and the transverse flute in 1976 at the Escola de Música Villa-Lobos, Rio de Janeiro, under the guidance of Fernando Moura and Theresia de Oliveira. In 1986, he continued his musical studies with Laura Rónai, brazilian specialist in the baroque transverse flute. He having taken part in courses and workshops about this instrument in Brazil with Helder Parente (Brazil), Hélène D’Ivoire, Jean-Christophe Frisch and Marc Hantaï (France), Benedek Csalog (Hungary) and Claire Guimond (Canada). He passed to be interested in the music of the medieval period in 1996, after his participation in the course offered by the French flutist Pierre Hamon at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Niterói. Since then, he passed to study about traditional instruments too. He was a member of several vocal and instrumentals groups, specially playing the baroque transverse flute, like in the “Trio Affettuoso”.

Leonardo Loredo - Graduated in Music Teaching from UNIRIO, Rio de Janeiro, Mr. Loredo is a student of lute and theorba at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris (C.N.R), at the class of Claire Antonini. He participated in the vocal group Anonimus (CD Anonimus, 1993). He is a founding member of Século (Renaissance and Baroque Music), Longa Florata (medieval Music CD - Annua Gaudua, 1998) and has taken part, as a guest artist, of the UFF Early Music Ensemble (CD Songs of Love and Praise, 1996). He studied lute and theorba with Eugène Ferré, Vincent Dumestre and Marco Horvat, in courses and Master-classes. He studied Medieval Music with Pierre Hamon, Catherine Sergent and Philippe Gonneaud at the Medieval Music Center of Paris. He had voice lessons with Jasmin Martorell.

           

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