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Marcelo Bratke - Wikipedia

Contents

1 - Career 2 - Discography 3 - Awards 4 - External Links

Career

Marcelo Bratke (born in São Paulo in 1960) is a Brazilian concert pianist based in São Paulo and London. He started his piano studies at the age of fourteen and due to a severe visual impairment he was unable to read scores, developing his own method of learning music based on his auditive memory capacity. Ten months after his first piano lesson he made his debut with the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra - OSESP conducted by Eleazar de Carvalho and was awarded the Revelation Prize by the São Paulo Art Critics’ Association (Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte APCA) He studied with Zelia Deri and Sergio Varella-Cid and spent one year at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, before finishing his studies with the German composer and conductor  Hans-Joachim Koellreutter.

Marcelo Bratke has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Salzburg Festival, Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, the Konzerthaus in Berlin and Suntory Hall in Tokyo, amongst other venues.

In 2008 Marcelo Bratke created Camerata Brasil, an orchestra formed of young musicians from impoverished areas of Brazilian society, performing with them more than 300 concerts in Brazil, Argentina, Japan, United Kingdom, Serbia, South Korea, Netherlands and in the US. Marcelo Bratke has developed special projects in collaboration with jazz pianist Julian Joseph; Principal dancer of the London Royal Ballet Thiago Soares; actor Marco Gambino; percussionist Naná Vasconcelos and pop singers Sandy, Fernanda Takai, Dori Caymmi and Milton Nascimento as well as performances with conductors including Alexander Lazarev; Eleazar de Carvalho; John Neschling; Roberto Minczuk; João Carlos Martins and Alvaro Cassuto. His multimedia project with visual artist Mariannita Luzzati entitled Cinemúsica has been performed in venues as diverse as Brazilian prisons and international concert halls. Bratke started his Villa-Lobos Project in 2004, which includes the recording of the composer’s complete solo piano works (Quartz Music UK and Gravadora Biscoito Fino Brazil) concerts in America, Europe and Asia, a weekly radio programme broadcast by Rádio Cultura FM de São Paulo and eight documentaries about Villa-Lobos for TV (Arte 1).

His recording of Ernesto Nazareth (Quartz Music) was selected among The 168 Best Classical Music Recordings of All Time by The Daily Telegraph and in 2017 Marcelo Bratke received Brazil’s highest cultural honour given by the Brazilian President Michel Temer: the Order of Cultural Merit (Ordem do Mérito Cultural). He is a nominee for Musician of the Year in the 2019 Lukas Award UK (Europe's highest Latin Entertainment award), the result of which will be known on 6 November 2019.

In 2004, after successful surgery in Boston, USA, Marcelo Bratke gained normal vision in his left eye.

Discography

- Webern, Schubert, Bach and Berg - Gravadora Eldorado - Brasil - Ernesto Nazareth and Darius Milhaud - Olympia Compact Discs LTD - Heitor Villa-Lobos - Olympia Compact Discs LTD - Mutationen - Alba Berg, Anton Webern and Ernest Krenek - Olympia Compact Discs LTD -	Le Groupe des Six - Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger, Germaine Tailleferre, Georges Auric and Louis Durey - Olympia Compact Discs LTD -	Aaron Copland - Complete Music for Tow Pianos - Marcelo Bratke and Marcela Roggeri - Etcetera Records -	Claudio Santoro - Rosana Lamosa and Marcelo Bratke - Quartz Music -	Ernesto Nazareth - Quartz Music -	Heitor Villa-Lobos Complete Solo Piano Works - Volume 1 - Quartz Music -	Heitor Villa-Lobos Complete Solo Piano Works - Volume 2 - Quartz Music -	Heitor Villa-Lobos Complete Solo Piano Works - Volume 3 - Quartz Music -	Heitor Villa-Lobos Complete Solo Piano Works - Volume 4 - Quartz Music -	Heitor Villa-Lobos Complete Solo Piano Works - Volume 5 - Quartz Music -	Ernesto Nazareth - Marcelo Bratke and Camerata Brasil - Gravadora Biscoito Fino -	Heitor Villa-Lobos Complete Solo Piano Works - Volume 1 - Gravadora Biscoito Fino -	Heitor Villa-Lobos Complete Solo Piano Works - Volume 2 - Gravadora Biscoito Fino -	Heitor Villa-Lobos Complete Solo Piano Works - Volume 3 - Gravadora Biscoito Fino -	DVD Alma Brasileira - Heitor Villa-Lobos - Marcelo Bratke and Camerata Brasil - Gravadora Biscoito Fino

Awards

o	Revelation Award - São Paulo Art Critic’s Association (Brazil) o	First Prize at Concorso Internazionale di Musica Città di Tradate (Italy) o	Carlos Gomes Award Prêmio Carlos Gomes (Brazil) o	14th Brazilian International Press Award 2011 (UK) o	Sarajevo Winter Festival 2013 (Bosnia) o	The Order of Cultural Merit (Ordem do Mérito Cultural) 2017 (Brazil) Citizen of São Paulo Award 2019 (Brazil)

External Links

Marcelo Bratke official website - http://www.marcelobratke.com/ Marcelo Bratke in The New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/25/arts/music/the-two-brazils-combine-for-night-at-carnegie-hall.html Marcelo Bratke in The New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/arts/music/11brat.html Marcelo Bratke in The New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/06/arts/music/06bratke.html Marcelo Bratke in The Wall Street Journal - https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB120250542437754715 Marcelo Bratke in The Daily Mail - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1247273/Virtuosos-incredible-secret--One-worlds-greatest-classical-pianists-reveals-blind-life.html Marcelo Bratke in Rádio Cultura FM - http://culturafm.cmais.com.br/alma-brasileira Marcelo Bratke - Documentary in 8 episodes about Villa-Lobos - https://noticias.band.uol.com.br/jornaldaband/videos/16109704/arte-1-exibe-serie-sobre-vida-e-obra-de-heitor-villa-lobos.html