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Instrument : Clarinet

Mario Marques

Bass Clarinet on the Campinas Symphony Orchestra
Mario Marques

Bachelor and Master of Music by the State University of Campinas. Member of the Campinas Symphonic Orchestra and the Madeira de Vento quintet, with which he recorded the albums “Chovendo Canivetes” (2002) and “Assanhado” (2009), as well as participated in international clarinet festivals in Atlanta (USA), Vancouver (Canada), Naning (China) and Assisi (Italy). Marques attended the three initial editions of the Brazilian Bass Clarinet Meeting and the International Summer Courses offered by the Italian Clarinet University, in Camerino (Italy), in which he was a student of bass clarinet player Sauro Berti.

He debuted “Bittersweet Brazil” for bass clarinet, strings and percussion, by Frederico Zimmerman Aranha, accompanied by the Campo Grande Symphonic Orchestra, and subsequently performed the piece with the State University of Campinas Symphonic Orchestra and the Campinas Symphonic Orchestra. Marques appeared as a soloist with Henrique Marques Band (Limeira, São Paulo), Sumaré Symphonic Band and Cubatão Symphonic Band. Took part in 2018’s ClarinetFest (Belgium), playing in a solo recital with new brazilian pieces for bass clarinet and in the festival’s gala concert alongside dutch bass player Henri Bok.

Since 2015, Marques has committed to fomenting an original repertoire with Brazilian composers. In 2021, the album “Um Clarone Brasileiro” was released digitally in order to register and disseminate part of that repertoire.Marques is a Buffet Crampon artist, playing with Bb and A clarinets and a Tosca bass clarinet.

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Discography
The album UM CLARONE BRASILERO (A Brazilian Bass Clarinet) had its genesis in a conversation I had with professor Henri Bok in 2015 at the First Brazilian Meeting of Claronists. After a recital in which I was the only one to perform an unreleased piece, he advised and inspired me to continue working on further developing and promoting new music works for the bass clarinet. In that same year, I had the opportunity to play at a solo bass clarinet recital in Camerino/Italy, which emphasized the importance of having a repertoire that truly reflects my artistic ideals as a Brazilian musician.That was the beginning of a journey of creating a Brazilian bass clarinet repertoire alongside composers. I started contacting the composers I already knew and slowly started to approach those I didn’t already know personally. Producing this work with household names of Brazilian contemporary concert music, such as Villani-Côrtes, Ernst Mahle and Sergio Vasconcellos Correia; young but already established composers, such as André Mehmari and Hudson Nogueira; composers from the new generation, such as Fernando de Oliveira, Gian Correia and Wagner Ortiz; and, finally, acclaimed choro composers, such as Mauricio Carrilho and Pedro Paes, was an honor; I was increasingly fulfilled, as I got to see each composition, with the certainty of the relevance of this work for brazilian bass clarinet.The bass clarinet has gained a prominent place in avant-garde music since the middle of the 20th century, due to its sound possibilities, but this project seeks another place for the bass clarinet: the Brazilian music scenario. I dare to say that this album may be labeled as a part of what musicologist Gunther Schuller called the “third stream”, the music that is located in between classical european and popular musical traditions; in this case, brazilian popular music, in such a rich and compelling pairing.
Gravadora Experimental
2021
UM CLARONE BRASILEIRO
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