Music in the Library
Sponsored by Friends of the Fallbrook Library
All Music Series events are held in the Library’s Community Room.
Featured artists and performance dates and times vary!
No reservations necessary, seating is on a “first come” basis
Admission – FREE!
Freaney & FRIENDS
presents
Brazilian pianist, Dr. Vania Pimentel
Tuesday, September 24, 1PM
Concert pianist Vania Pimentel, born and raised in Brazil, has been promoting Brazilian music in creative recital programs. She has a BA in Music and another BA in Philosophy from Brazil, KA graduate artist diploma from Germany, Masters in Piano Performance and Pedagogy, and DMA from the University of Houston. Her doctoral dissertation was on Brazilian toccatas, and her CD “Brazilian Toccatas and Toccatinas” was praised by the Brazilian Academy of Music and newspaper critics in Rio de Janeiro.
Dr. Pimentel became a member of Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society, and worked as an assistant teacher at the Moores School of Music and the Texas Music Festival. In Brazil, she had worked for 14 years as a piano professor in Curitiba, PR.
Her first award at a piano competition was at the age of seven in Rio. Her top awards are from J. S. Bach International Piano Competition in Paris (1984), and Jaen Competition in Spain (1982).
Dr. Pimentel has been living in San Diego since 2009. She has performed recitals at Palomar College, Fallbrook Library, Coronado Library, Encinitas Library, the Athenaeum, Carmel Valley Library, and chamber music in Temecula: Classics at the Merc. She performs frequently in Brazil, and has given masterclasses at many universities there. Last January, she performed and taught at the 37th Music Workshop of Curitiba, PR.
Programa Brasileiro:
Brasílio Itiberê da Cunha A Sertaneja, Op. 15 (Fantasy) (1846 – 1913)
Chiquinha Gonzaga Gaúcho (Brazilian Tango) (1847 – 1935)
Ernesto Nazareth Improviso Concert Etude (1863 – 1934)
Heitor Villa-Lobos The Three Marias: Alnitah, Alnilam, Mintika (1887 – 1959) (star names in the constellation Orion)
Francisco Mignone Valsa de Esquina (Corner Waltz) No. 8 (1897 – 1986)
Camargo Guarnieri Brazilian Dance: Tempo de Samba (1907 – 1993)
Antônio Guerra-Peixe Tropical Prelude No. 04: Ponteado de Viola (1914 – 1993)
Claudio Santoro Brazilian Dance No. 1 (1919 – 1989)
Osvaldo Lacerda From Brasiliana No. 9, Forró (1927 – 2011)
Edino Krieger Sonatina: Moderato, Allegro (Toccatina) (1928 – 2022)
Liduíno Pitombeira From Brazilian Suite Op. 92, Forrobodó (1962 – )
Waldir Azevedo Brasileirinho (1923 – 1980) Transcr. Carlos Assis (2022)