AN EVENING OF
NEW MUSIC
IMPROVISATION
WITH
PAULO ALVARES
AND THE PIANO
STUDENTS OF THE
SCHOOL OF MUSIC

GUEST ARTIST SERIES>
KATZIN CONCERT HALL
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2007 • 7:30 PM

MUSIC
ferbergerCollege
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ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

Born in Belo Horizonte, the Brazilian pianist Paulo Sergio
Guimardes Alvares studied the piano under Caio Pagano
at the University of Sao Paulo, where he also studied
chamber music and new music. From 1985 he studied in
Texas under Steven de Groote and Caio Pagano earning a
masters degree. From 1988-1990 he studied under Aloys
Kontarsky in Köln thanks to a DAAD grant. After
winning the Kranichsteiner Music Prize at the Darmstadt
International Course for New Music in July 1990, he
explored the relationship between the piano and live
electronics at the IRCAM in Paris.
Paulo Alvares has already appeared all over the world as a
soloist and chamber musician. He devotes himself to new
music, improvised music and to both the classical and 20th
century repertoires. His many recordings encompass, for
instance, all Mauricio Kagel's keyboard music, published
in December 2002.
Recently Alvares has been working regularly as a pianist
with the Radio Orchestra of West German Radio, the
Ensemble Noamnesia in Chicago, the Het Spectral
Ensemble in Ghent.

At many festivals of new music he has played as a soloist,
for instance at Wein Modern, Triennale Köln,
Huddersfield, Musica in Strasburg, Berio Festival in
Turin, Wittener Tage Fur Neue Musik and Festival Musica
Nova in Sao Paulo.
Paulo Alvares works closely with many important
composers and conductors, including Helmut
Lachenmann, Mauricio Kagel, Luciano Berio, Tristan
Murail, Nicolaus A. Huber, Karlheinz Stockhausen,
'Gerhard Staebler, Jonathan Harvey, Dieter Schnebel, Hans
Zender, Jonathan Nott, Zoltan Nagy, Peter Etvos and
Gunter Schuller.
Since 1997 Paulo Alveres has been working as a Professor
of Piano, Chamber Music, and Improvisation at
Hochschule fuer Musik in Cologne and since 2003,
together with Caio Pagano, as Coordinator Professor of
Piano and Chamber Music at ESART in Castelo Branco,
Portugal. Recently Alveres has played concerts in China,
Europe and Brazil, fusing traditional repertoire with new
music including improvisations and aleatoric
performances.

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Performance Events Staff Supervisor
Paul W. Estes
Event Mangers:
Kyle Anderson, Iftekhar Anwar, Laura Boone, Edwin Brown
Brady Cullum, Mirel DeLaTorre, Anthony Garcia, Lech Humphrey
Kevan Nymeyer, Megan Smith, Aaron VanderYachet

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