PROGRAM
RCC - Rosário Coro de Câmara
Rosário Chamber Choir
Laudate Dominum, of G. Pitoni
Exultate justi in Domini, of L. Viadana
Cantate Domino, of H. L. Hassler
Dank sagen wir, of H. Schütz
CCR - Coro do Colégio do Rosário
Colégio do Rosário Choir
Pater Noster, of B. Dewagtere
Christmas Melodies
CCR + RCC
Rosário Chamber Choir e Colégio do Rosário Choir
Gloria, of Vivaldi
RCC - Rosário Coro de Câmara
CCR - Coro do Colégio do Rosário
Pedro Teixeira, direction
Filipe Cerqueira, pianist
Colégio do Rosário Choirs
In addition to the curricular component, the Colégio de Nossa Senhora do Rosário's educational offer includes several regular activities dedicated to all the students' age levels: Instrument individual lessons, Choir, Bevel Flute Group, Orff Orchestra, Musical Workshop and String Orchestra. Throughout each school year, there are about ten auditions open to the community, three themed nights - Fado Night, Jazz Night and Rock in Rosário - and two concerts oriented to classical choral/symphonic choral music: the Concerto of Santa Cecília in November and the Easter Concert in April.
It is in accordance with this dynamics of the Department of Music that the Colégio do Rosário Choir and the Rosário Chamber Choir are framed, with the purpose of offering, also to the adult community, opportunities for regular musical practice, with a perspective of fruition and personal enrichment according to the potentialities and expectations of each one.
The Rosário Choir Chamber is, therefore, intended to constitute a space for personal development through the practice and sharing of good choral music, with reference to high standards of performative quality. In addition, it aims to promote culture through the presentation of music from different aesthetic settings, worldviews, geographies and periods, both in the physical space of the College and outside it. This group consists of teachers and other employees with musical and vocal training suitable to the objectives it pursues.
It started in March 2016 and its work is developed in the form of projects, so there are no regular rehearsals. Both the repertoire and the rehearsal plan for each project are defined together, with each element assuming responsibility for its own prior preparation. The base formation of the Rosário Choir Chamber is in octet, although it can be variable, according to the requirements of each performative project. It is coordinated by maestro Pedro Teixeira.
The Colégio do Rosário Choir consists of members of the Educational Community, namely students' families, teachers, employees and other friends. It was created in November 2001, with the objective of providing the educational community of the College with a space for musical development through choral singing. It is currently composed of about 50 members.
Marking its 15th anniversary this year, the Colégio do Rosário Choir has affirmed itself, in recent years, as a chorus to be taken into account by other similar institutions for the establishment of performative partnerships, among which the Academic Choir of the University of Minho, The Orpheon Académico de Coimbra, the Anonymus Choir, the Portuguese Orchestra of Guitars and Mandolines, the Sinfonieta Orchestra of Braga, the Classical Orchestra of the Center and the School of Music and Arts of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto.
The repertoire addresses different historical epochs and different aesthetic frameworks, in a plural view of artistic expression through music. Some of the current repertoire includes traditional Christmas music, excerpts from musicals, traditional Portuguese music, black spirituals and sacred music, notably Mozart's Requiem, Te Deum of Charpentier, Vivaldi's Gloria, Bach's Cantata No. 4, Mozart's Missa Brevis in D minor, and the Saint-Säens Christmas Oratory.
Under the direction of maestro Pedro Teixeira since its inception, it has acted in the most diverse contexts, inside and outside the Colégio do Rosário. We would like to highlight the participation in the Nativity Cycles (Braga, Coimbra and Porto), the Easter Concerts of Colégio do Rosário, the Bonjóia "Music Journey on a summer night Concert", as well as the great concert commemorating the 140 years of the College, which were important moments in the life of the Colégio do Rosário Choir.
Pedro Teixeira
He holds a degree in Theology from the Universidade Católica Portuguesa and in Composition from ESMAE - Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo (Superior School of Music and Performing Arts). He made a Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Voice at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto and another in Education Sciences at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
Within the range of his musical studies, he worked with composers such as Cândido Lima, Filipe Pires, Fernando Lapa, Eugénio Amorim and Carlos Guedes. He studied Coral Direction with Ferreira dos Santos, Barbara Franke and Hubert Velten and Harmony with F. Stoiber. He attended the Courses of Musical Pedagogy, guided by Professors Pierre Van Hawe, Manuela Keglevic and Johannes Hepp. He attended the seminar "Harmony in evolution" under the guidance of Professor Zsolt Gardonyi. Between 1996 and 1998 he attended the course "Today's interpretation of the Gregorian Chant", conducted by Professor Johannes Göschl, at the School of Arts of the Portuguese Catholic University and he was part of the Gregorian Chant of the Lapa Church for three years, under the direction of Dr. Ferreira dos Santos. He was an Effective Associate of the Choir of the Cathedral of Porto for 10 years, having served as section leader.
Pedro Teixeira formed and directed the musical group Pequenos Cantores de Rebordões Santa Maria, in Ponte de Lima, a group with which he regularly performed in the north and center of the country for twenty years.
He was cofounder and pedagogical and administrative director during the first five years of Artâmega - Academy of Arts of Marco de Canaveses. Having established the bases of its current functioning, the academy obtained, from the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Permit that allows it to function in a pedagogical autonomy regime.
After seven years teaching in public education, he is a professor of Musical Education at the Rosário College since 1994/1995, being Coordinator of the Music Department. In this Institution he is also Educational Team Coordinator of the 2nd Cycle of Basic Education, member of CIFOR - Centre of Investigation and Training of Rosário and Coordinator of the discipline of Workshop on Arts and Sport. He is also the conductor of the Orff Orchestra, Rosário Chamber Choir and Colégio do Rosário Choir, since its founding in 2001. ?
Filipe Cerqueira
Graduated in Piano by the Superior School of Music and Performing Arts (ESMAE), with an average of 18 points in the class of Professor Constantin Sandu, he finished in the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest (Hungary) under the Erasmus program, with the guidance of Professor Laszlo Bárányay.
He held public solo and chamber music presentations in several national shows rooms, most notably: Guilhermina Suggia Room and Room 2 of the Casa da Música; Salon of the Ateneu Comercial of Porto; Teatro Rivoli Small auditorium; Museum of Music in Lisbon; Embassy of Hungary in Portugal.
Master in Piano by ESMAE, in the class of Professor Pedro Burmester, with the thesis "The work for piano solo of the Portuguese composer Joaquim Gonçalves dos Santos".
He currently holds a Master's Degree in Music Teaching from ESMAE.
He is professor of piano in specialized artistic education at the following institutions: Rosário College; Felgueiras Conservatory of Music; Gulpilhares Cultural Forum; Amial School of Music and Arts.
Filipe Cerqueira is also a musical chronicler in the national written press and a promoter of the Portuguese erudite music through the Patrimonial Movement for Portuguese Music.
