Marcelo
Bratke was born in São Paulo, where
he began his piano studies in his early teens.
He was a promising pupil; in 2002, his CD
Les Groupe des Six was voted as one of the
greatest classical recordings of all time
by Gramophone magazine. |
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In
1976, after just one year of piano lessons, the
sixteen-year-old Bratke had won the São Paulo
Art Critics' Association "Revelation Prize"
for a performance of Bach's D minor Concerto. It
was performed with the São Paulo State Symphony
Orchestra, conducted by Eleazar de Carvalho.
Quickly
established as one of Brazil's leading young pianists,
in 1982 Bratke settled in New York to study at the
Juilliard School of Music; he was 22. Afterwards,
travelling through Europe, he won first prize at
Italy's Tradate International Piano Competition.
In
1988, after completing his musical studies, Bratke
moved to London. Since then he has performed at
the Salzburg Festival and at Europe's most coveted
venues, including the Wigmore Hall and the Queen
Elizabeth Hall, and the Schauspielhaus in Berlin.
Marcelo
Bratke began his acclaimed recordings for the Olympia
label (UK) in the early 1990s. These have celebrated
the Brazilian rhythms of Ernesto Nazareth and Darius
Milhaud, the radicalism of Berg and Webern, as well
the children's world of Heitor Villa-Lobos. Bach
and Schubert are also in Bratke's discography. With
pianist Marcela Roggeri (Etcetera label) he went
on to perform works for two pianos by Aaron Copland
and he has also collaborated on the 'Imaginary Line'
CD series with jazz pianist Julian Joseph.
In
2001 Bratke won the esteemed Carlos Gomes Award;
his engagements over the next two years included
'400 Years of Modern Music' at the Queen Elizabeth
Hall, the Festival Transclassiques in Paris, as
well as 'Marcelo Bratke and Guests' at the Teatro
Alfa International Season (São Paulo). He
has also performed for Brazilian President Fernando
Henrique Cardoso at the Palazzo Pamphilj in Rome,
and played to over 80,000people in a series of 45
concerts for his 'Circuito Cultural Banco do Brasil'
tour.
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