Prix sans Prix

Prix sans Prix reúne as jovens e premiadas Adriana Ferreira (flautista), Isolda Crespi Rubio (pianista) e Silvia Podrecca (harpista) em torno de repertório moderno e contemporâneo para instrumento solo e para duo escrito por mulheres compositoras, em parte discograficamente inédito. Em particular, o projeto desvela e problematiza o silêncio a que continuam a ser votadas, pela historiografia e pela programação das salas de concerto tradicionais, as mulheres compositoras — mesmo as que, em vida, granjearam algum sucesso, como as que foram premiadas pelo célebre e histórico Prix de Rome, associado à Villa Médicis, durante muito tempo o mais importante concurso de composição europeu. O trabalho de investigação artística reforça-se e complementa-se com abordagens musicológicas de Helena Lopes Braga e de Inês Thomas Almeida, que têm trabalhado sobre questões de género em música. O projeto concretiza-se na edição de um díptico discográfico.
Prix sans Prix pode traduzir-se como “Prémio sem prémio”, ou “Prémio sem preço”, ou ainda “Preço sem prémio” — e sinaliza assim, com ironia, o preço a pagar por se ser mulher no contexto da música de tradição erudita ocidental. O primeiro disco do díptico centra-se diretamente no Prix de Rome, integrando repertório de compositoras que foram nele premiadas e de quem (quase) nunca se ouve falar — e de quem, por exemplo, ao longo do percurso formativo de um estudante de conservatório, raras vezes se interpreta alguma partiura. No segundo disco, o panorama abre-se a outras compositoras que lidam com uma outras camadas de constrições — entre várias, as que são próprias da sua condição de agentes musicais em contexto geograficamente periférico face aos centros de poder hegemónicos de criação musical contemporânea, com destaque para a portuguesa Clotilde Rosa (1930-2017).
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Adriana Ferreira

Adriana Ferreira is Principal Flute of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Italy. She held the same position at the Rotterdam Philharmonic and was also Associate Principal Flute at the Orchestre National de France in Paris.
In 2010, when she was nineteen years old, Adriana won the First Prize, Orchestra Prize and Young Jury’s Prize at the Carl Nielsen International Flute Competition in Denmark.
In 2013, she was awarded 3rd Prize at the Kobe International Competition in Japan, before obtaining First Prize of the Severino Gazzelloni Competition in Italy in 2014. She was later the joint top prize winner of the Geneva International Competition in Switzerland, where she was also honoured with the Coup de Cœur Breguet Special Prize.
Born in Cabeceiras de Basto, Portugal, she studied at the ARTAVE Music School with Joaquina Mota. A laureate of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, she joined the class of Sophie Cherrier and Vincent Lucas at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSMDP), where she graduated. She also studied with Benoît Fromanger at the Hochschule Hanns Eisler Berlin and holds a Musicology degree from the Paris-Sorbonne University.

Isolda Crespi Rubio

Born in Barcelona, Isolda holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Piano from the Royal College of Music in London, where she studied with John Barstow. In 2013 she finished a Master’s Degree of Science in Music Education at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Porto publishing her thesis with the title “The Invisible Professor. The influence of the piano accompanist on the musical education of instrumental students” for the publisher Novas Edições Acadêmicas.
She has performed both as a Soloist and as a Collaborative Pianist in Spain, Portugal, Holland, France, Switzerland, UK, Denmark, Brazil and South Korea.
She played with renowned international musicians such as Catalin Rotaru, Maté Szucs, Ian Bousfield, Stefan Schulz, Vincent Lucas, Alberto Bocini, Jean-Louis Capezzali, among others and she also accompanied Masterclasses with Mischa Maisky, Nobuko Imai, Nathan Braude, Svetlin Roussev and Maté Szucs.
She performed solo with Orquestra de Guimarães and Orquestra ARTAVE and gave Piano Masterclasses in Portugal and in Brazil. Isolda also recorded for the labels Numérica, Artway, NBB Records and “Ring of Engelbert Schmid Horn Soloists”.
She is co-founder of the Ibertrio (violin, cello and piano trio) with whom she has played in several venues around Portugal, Spain and Holland.
She is currently a Collaborative Pianist in the Escola Superior de Artes Aplicadas (Castelo Branco), in the Universidade do Minho (Braga) and in the Escola Profissional Artística do Vale do Ave (ARTAVE).

Silvia Poddrecca

Italian harpist born in Cividale del Friuli in 1992, she studied her Bachelor and Master degree in Conservatorio J.Tomadini di Udine with Prof. Patrizia Tassini, before specializing in Düsseldorf, with Fabiana Trani, and at Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, with Susanna Bertuccioli.
She has received numerous awards in national competitions, including the MIUR Abbado Prize, and international ones, held in Legnago, Treviso, Florence, Velenje.
After her first experiences as orchestra musician with the Orchestra Giovanile Italiana and the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala, she collaborated with Italian and European Opera and Symphony Orchestras like: Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Haydn Orchestra in Bolzano, Orchestra sinfonica della Rai in Turin, Concerto Orchestra in Budapest, Duisburger Philharmoniker among others. In 2016-18 she played an internship at the Deutsche Oper Berlin Orchestra, and the following year she won the position as a harpist at the Staatsoper Hannover.
Since 2022 she holds the role of Principal Harpist of the Orchestra dell’ Accademia Nazionale di S.Cecilia in Rome. With this orchestra, she performed as a soloist the Mozart’s Concerto K299 with Adriana Ferreira, under conduction of m° Dantone.
She gets regularly invitations to collaborate with international orchestras, such as the Radio Orchestras of Hamburg and Munich, and the Bayreuther Festspielorchester.
Beside her orchestral career, she regularly holds concerts in chamber groups for Institutions, Foundations, Associations and Festivals in Italy and abroad.

Adriana Ferreira

Adriana Ferreira is Principal Flute of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Italy. She held the same position at the Rotterdam Philharmonic and was also Associate Principal Flute at the Orchestre National de France in Paris.
In 2010, when she was nineteen years old, Adriana won the First Prize, Orchestra Prize and Young Jury’s Prize at the Carl Nielsen International Flute Competition in Denmark.
In 2013, she was awarded 3rd Prize at the Kobe International Competition in Japan, before obtaining First Prize of the Severino Gazzelloni Competition in Italy in 2014. She was later the joint top prize winner of the Geneva International Competition in Switzerland, where she was also honoured with the Coup de Cœur Breguet Special Prize.
Born in Cabeceiras de Basto, Portugal, she studied at the ARTAVE Music School with Joaquina Mota. A laureate of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, she joined the class of Sophie Cherrier and Vincent Lucas at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSMDP), where she graduated. She also studied with Benoît Fromanger at the Hochschule Hanns Eisler Berlin and holds a Musicology degree from the Paris-Sorbonne University.

Isolda Crespi Rubio

Born in Barcelona, Isolda holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Piano from the Royal College of Music in London, where she studied with John Barstow. In 2013 she finished a Master’s Degree of Science in Music Education at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Porto publishing her thesis with the title “The Invisible Professor. The influence of the piano accompanist on the musical education of instrumental students” for the publisher Novas Edições Acadêmicas.
She has performed both as a Soloist and as a Collaborative Pianist in Spain, Portugal, Holland, France, Switzerland, UK, Denmark, Brazil and South Korea.
She played with renowned international musicians such as Catalin Rotaru, Maté Szucs, Ian Bousfield, Stefan Schulz, Vincent Lucas, Alberto Bocini, Jean-Louis Capezzali, among others and she also accompanied Masterclasses with Mischa Maisky, Nobuko Imai, Nathan Braude, Svetlin Roussev and Maté Szucs.
She performed solo with Orquestra de Guimarães and Orquestra ARTAVE and gave Piano Masterclasses in Portugal and in Brazil. Isolda also recorded for the labels Numérica, Artway, NBB Records and “Ring of Engelbert Schmid Horn Soloists”.
She is co-founder of the Ibertrio (violin, cello and piano trio) with whom she has played in several venues around Portugal, Spain and Holland.
She is currently a Collaborative Pianist in the Escola Superior de Artes Aplicadas (Castelo Branco), in the Universidade do Minho (Braga) and in the Escola Profissional Artística do Vale do Ave (ARTAVE).

Silvia Poddrecca

Italian harpist born in Cividale del Friuli in 1992, she studied her Bachelor and Master degree in Conservatorio J.Tomadini di Udine with Prof. Patrizia Tassini, before specializing in Düsseldorf, with Fabiana Trani, and at Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, with Susanna Bertuccioli.
She has received numerous awards in national competitions, including the MIUR Abbado Prize, and international ones, held in Legnago, Treviso, Florence, Velenje.
After her first experiences as orchestra musician with the Orchestra Giovanile Italiana and the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala, she collaborated with Italian and European Opera and Symphony Orchestras like: Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Haydn Orchestra in Bolzano, Orchestra sinfonica della Rai in Turin, Concerto Orchestra in Budapest, Duisburger Philharmoniker among others. In 2016-18 she played an internship at the Deutsche Oper Berlin Orchestra, and the following year she won the position as a harpist at the Staatsoper Hannover.
Since 2022 she holds the role of Principal Harpist of the Orchestra dell’ Accademia Nazionale di S.Cecilia in Rome. With this orchestra, she performed as a soloist the Mozart’s Concerto K299 with Adriana Ferreira, under conduction of m° Dantone.
She gets regularly invitations to collaborate with international orchestras, such as the Radio Orchestras of Hamburg and Munich, and the Bayreuther Festspielorchester.
Beside her orchestral career, she regularly holds concerts in chamber groups for Institutions, Foundations, Associations and Festivals in Italy and abroad.

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