BVSO Presents ‘Brazilian’s Best’ on March 2
Information courtesy of | Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra
The Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra™ continues its 43rd season with Brazilian’s Best on March 2, 2025. Music Director Marcelo Bussiki will lead the BVSO in a vibrant celebration of Brazilian music, featuring fellow countryman and guest artist Diego Caetano on piano performing Heitor Villa-Lobos’ Bachianas Brasileiras No. 3. The program also includes Three Brazilian Dances by Camargo Guarnieri and a lively selection of Brazilian pop and bossa nova favorites, including Tom Jobim’s iconic The Girl from Ipanema.
Join us before the concert at 4 pm in the Rudder Exhibit Hall for a pre-concert reception with a cash bar and light appetizers.
Pianist Diego Caetano has performed with renowned conductors such as Michael Palmer, Paul Hostetter, and Neil Thomson, and has appeared at prestigious festivals including the Grand Teton Music Festival, Louisiana International Piano Series, and Brasília’s International Music Festival. An advocate of contemporary music, he has premiered works by Robert Spillman, Anne Guzzo, and Marlos Nobre. Caetano has earned top prizes in over fifty national and international competitions, including the Bonn Prize International Music Competition and Bucharest Pro Piano International Competition, receiving special awards for his interpretation of Brazilian and Spanish composers. As a member of Duo Lispector and Resch-Caetano Duo, he has released several recordings, including French Connection and Schubert’s Winterreise. A dedicated educator, Caetano is an Assistant Professor of Piano at Sam Houston State University, co-founder of the Ávila International Music Festival in Spain, and a Shigeru Kawai Artist, holding degrees from the University of Colorado, University of Wyoming, and Universidade Federal de Goiás.
What: Brazilian’s Best
When: Sunday, March 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Where: Rudder Theatre, Texas A&M Campus
Guest Artists:
Diego Caetano, piano
Program:
Guarnieri: Three Brazilian Dances
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 3
Various: Pops Brazilian Music from Bossa Nova
Concert Sponsors:
The Clearfield Family and The Gilbert & Thyra Plass Charitable Trust
This concert will be General Admission, patrons can purchase their seats via the MSC Box Office website at boxoffice.tamu.edu or by calling 979-845-1234. Tickets for this event are $55 for adults, $10 for students and children 18 years and younger. Box office processing fees will apply. All programs are subject to change. Please contact the Symphony Office with any further questions.
About the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra: The BVSO™ is a non-profit performing arts organization with the mission to maintain a symphony of high artistic standards, and to promote the musical arts for cultural and education purposes in the Brazos Valley. For more information about the Symphony, please visit the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra Website at www.bvso.org.
The Brazos Valley Symphony Society wishes to recognize and thank our programming sponsors, grant funding providers, and charitable trust contributors:
The Clearfield Family, the Gilbert & Thyra Plass Charitable Trust, The Ham Family Trust, The Rea Charitable Trust, Amarillo National Bank, Becky & B. Don Russell, and Dreamers Land & Minerals, Inc.
This program made possible in part through Hotel Tax Revenue funded from the City of College Station through The Arts Center. This project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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