CURATION
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by Augmented Matrix
Network Node
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Name:
Nahre Sol
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City/Place:
Toronto
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Country:
Canada
Life & Work
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Bio:
Nahre Sol, also known as Alice, is a multifaceted artist engaging in performance, composition, and teaching across a diverse spectrum of musical genres. Her approach seamlessly integrates elements of improvisation, avant-garde, traditional Western forms, jazz, and minimalism. Renowned as a classically-trained pianist with an unquenchable thirst for innovative ideas in music theory, harmony, practicing, and composition, Nahre has established herself through two popular YouTube series, Practice Notes and Sound Bank.
Graduating from The Juilliard School and The Glenn Gould School of The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Nahre's solo and chamber performances have graced stages across North America and Europe. Notable venues include The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and Gusman Theatre in Miami, among others in Canada, France, Holland, Italy, Poland, and Germany. A recipient of the Harriet Hale Woolley Grant in 2013, she studied in Paris under Gabriel Tacchino and Narcis Bonet, both protégés of Francis Poulenc.
As a soloist, Nahre's compositions have premiered in major cities worldwide, featuring performances by renowned artists such as Julian Martin, Han Chen, Jaewon Bang, Jeremy Smith, and Griffin McMahon. Beyond her individual pursuits, Nahre Sol is the Co-Artistic Director and keyboardist of Happenstance, a Toronto-based concert series and ensemble she co-leads with clarinetist Brad Cherwin. Happenstance is celebrated for blending contemporary repertoire with traditional works, creating a unique and engaging experience for audiences.
Adding another layer to her artistic repertoire, Nahre Sol co-hosts Sound Field, a music channel by PBS Digital Studios, alongside drummer L.A. Buckner. The channel explores a wide range of music-related topics, including education, analysis, and composition. Recent projects include a commissioned set of miniatures with video projections for the Andrew Carnegie Free Library and Music Hall, as well as performances, masterclasses, and talks at institutions like Carnegie Mellon University, University of Costa Rica, Westben Performer-Composer Residency, and the Millbrook School.
Currently, Nahre is the recipient of the inaugural New Music Fellowship at The Glenn Gould School at The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, marking a significant milestone in her continuously evolving and vibrant artistic journey.
Portuguese:
Nahre Sol, também conhecida como Alice, é uma artista multifacetada envolvida em performance, composição e ensino em uma variedade de gêneros musicais. Sua abordagem integra perfeitamente elementos de improvisação, vanguarda, formas tradicionais ocidentais, jazz e minimalismo. Renomada como pianista clássica com uma sede insaciável por ideias inovadoras em teoria musical, harmonia, prática e composição, Nahre se estabeleceu por meio de duas populares séries no YouTube, Practice Notes e Sound Bank.
Graduada na Juilliard School e na Glenn Gould School do Royal Conservatory of Music em Toronto, as performances solo e de câmara de Nahre decoraram palcos em toda a América do Norte e Europa. Locais notáveis incluem o Kennedy Center em Washington D.C., o Walt Disney Concert Hall em Los Angeles e o Gusman Theatre em Miami, entre outros no Canadá, França, Holanda, Itália, Polônia e Alemanha. Recebedora da Harriet Hale Woolley Grant em 2013, estudou em Paris com Gabriel Tacchino e Narcis Bonet, ambos discípulos de Francis Poulenc.
Como solista, as composições de Nahre estrearam em cidades importantes ao redor do mundo, apresentando performances de artistas renomados como Julian Martin, Han Chen, Jaewon Bang, Jeremy Smith e Griffin McMahon. Além de suas buscas individuais, Nahre Sol é a Co-Diretora Artística e tecladista da Happenstance, uma série e ensemble sediados em Toronto, co-liderada pelo clarinetista Brad Cherwin. A Happenstance é aclamada por mesclar repertório contemporâneo com obras tradicionais, criando uma experiência única e envolvente para o público.
Adicionando mais uma camada ao seu repertório artístico, Nahre Sol co-apresenta o Sound Field, um canal de música da PBS Digital Studios, ao lado do baterista L.A. Buckner. O canal explora uma ampla gama de tópicos relacionados à música, incluindo educação, análise e composição. Projetos recentes incluem um conjunto de miniaturas com projeções de vídeo encomendadas pela Andrew Carnegie Free Library and Music Hall, além de performances, masterclasses e palestras em instituições como Carnegie Mellon University, University of Costa Rica, Westben Performer-Composer Residency e Millbrook School.
Atualmente, Nahre é a destinatária da primeira Bolsa de Nova Música na Glenn Gould School do Royal Conservatory of Music em Toronto, marcando um marco significativo em sua jornada artística contínua e vibrante.
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Creators in the Matrix mathematically gravitate to close proximity with all other creators in the Matrix, no matter how far away in location, fame or society. This mathematical gravity is called "the small world phenomenon". "In a small world great things are possible."
It's not which pill you take, it's which pathways you take. Pathways originating in the sprawling cultural matrix of Brazil: Indigenous, African, Sephardic and then Ashkenazic, European, Asian... Matrix Ground Zero is the Recôncavo, contouring the Bay of All Saints, earthly center of gravity for the disembarkation of enslaved human beings — and the sublimity they created — presided over by the ineffable Black Rome of Brazil: Salvador da Bahia.
("Black Rome" is an appellation per Caetano Veloso, son of the Recôncavo, via Mãe Aninha of Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá.)
Caetano Veloso
THE MATRIX MISSION: What do Jimmy Cliff, Jimmy Page, and Dionne Warwick all have in common? They've all lived in Bahia and Dionne is moving back (visitors include Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spike Lee, Michael Jackson, Beyoncé, David Byrne and Sting, among others). But so have lived and now live untold numbers of Bahian creators whose magisterial work has never had the major media means to reach beyond limited surroundings. In order that the creators of Bahia might have global reach, ALL creators must have global reach.
QED: 'mātriks / "source" / from "mater", Latin for "mother". We're real mothers for ya! (thank you Johnny "Guitar" Watson)
Susan Rogers
"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers: Personal recording engineer for Prince, inc. "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"... Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory
"Thanks! It looks great!....I didn't write 'Cantaloupe Island' though...Herbie Hancock did! Great Page though, well done! best, Randy"
"We appreciate you including Kamasi in the matrix, Sparrow."
—Banch Abegaze: manager, Kamasi Washington
"This is super impressive work ! Congratulations ! Thanks for including me :)))"
—Clarice Assad: Pianist and composer with works performed by Yo Yo Ma and orchestras around the world
"Dear Sparrow, Many thanks for this – I am touched!"
—Julian Lloyd-Webber: UK's premier cellist; brother of Andrew Lloyd Webber (Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Phantom of the Opera...)
"Thanks, this is a brilliant idea!!"
—Alicia Svigals: World's premier klezmer violinist
Developed here in the Historic Center of Salvador da Bahia ↓ .
Bule Bule (Assis Valente)
"♫ The time has come for these bronzed people to show their value..."
Recommend somebody and you will appear on that person's page. Somebody recommends you and they will appear on your page.
Both pulled by the inexorable mathematical gravity of the small world phenomenon to within range of everybody inside.
And by logical extension, to within range of all humanity outside as well.
8 billion human beings tend to within six degrees of connection to each other.
In a small world great things are possible.
I'm Pardal here in Brazil (that's "Sparrow" in English). The deep roots of this project are in Manhattan, where Allen Klein (managed the Beatles and The Rolling Stones) called me about royalties for the estate of Sam Cooke... where Jerry Ragovoy (co-wrote Time is On My Side, sung by the Stones; Piece of My Heart, Janis Joplin of course; and Pata Pata, sung by the great Miriam Makeba) called me looking for unpaid royalties... where I did contract and licensing for Carlinhos Brown's participation on Bahia Black with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock...
...where I rescued unpaid royalties for Aretha Franklin (from Atlantic Records), Barbra Streisand (from CBS Records), Led Zeppelin, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Airto Moreira, Jim Hall, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), Ray Barretto, Philip Glass, Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd for his interest in Bob Marley compositions, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam and others...
...where I worked with Earl "Speedo" Carroll of the Cadillacs (who went from doo-wopping as a kid on Harlem streetcorners to top of the charts to working as a janitor at P.S. 87 in Manhattan without ever losing what it was that made him special in the first place), and with Jake and Zeke Carey of The Flamingos (I Only Have Eyes for You)... stuff like that.
Yeah this is Bob's first record contract, made with Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd of Studio One and co-signed by his aunt because he was under 21. I took it to Black Rock to argue with CBS' lawyers about the royalties they didn't want to pay (they paid).
I built the Matrix below (I'm below left, with David Dye & Kim Junod for U.S. National Public Radio) among some of the world's most powerfully moving music, some of it made by people barely known beyond village borders. Or in the case of Sodré, his anthem A MASSA — a paean to Brazil's poor ("our pain is the pain of a timid boy, a calf stepped on...") — having blasted from every radio between the Amazon and Brazil's industrial south, before he was silenced. The Matrix started with Sodré, with João do Boi, with Roberto Mendes, with Bule Bule, with Roque Ferreira... music rooted in the sugarcane plantations of Bahia. Hence our logo (a cane cutter).
Matrix founding creators are behind "one of 10 of the best (radios) around the world", per The Guardian. If you create too, join them in the Matrix.
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