BEATRIZ AZEVEDO
invites HELIO FLANDERS
ADELA LORINCZ piano
CITÉ INTERNATIONALE DES ARTS
Paris, France
January 31, 2024
wednesday, 19h
18, rue de L’Hotel de Ville
Marais.
Atelier 1440
photos by Nina Bruno
BEATRIZ AZEVEDO
voice + acoustic guitar + songs + poems
HELIO FLANDERS
voice + acoustic guitar + songs + poems
ADELA LORINCZ
piano
Beatriz Azevedo embraces Helio Flanders
As part of the program for her creative residency at the Cité des Arts in Paris, Beatriz Azevedo now invites Brazilian singer Helio Flanders to accompany her in a duo concert.
The performance will take place in her studio at the Cité Internationale des Arts, next Wednesday 01/31/2024.
The presentation includes songs from Beatriz and Hélio’s repertoire and also versions by other composers such as Antonio Carlos Jobim and Kurt Weil.
They will be accompanied on some songs by Adela Lorincz, former Cité resident, on the piano.
Beatriz Azevedo is a Brazilian multi-artist, poet, performer and composer, “who has emerged in recent years as one of Brazil’s most innovative artists”. Her artistic practice mixes the languages of music, theater, performance, literature and audiovisual.
In 2023, she received the Cité Internationale des Arts award for an artistic residency in Paris, France. Artist and transdisciplinary researcher, Beatriz is Visiting Scholar at Tisch Arts New York University, and Associate Member of the Center for Research on Lusophone Peoples at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris.
Beatriz holds a doctorate in Performing Arts and a master’s degree in Comparative Literature from the University of São Paulo (USP). She is a post-doctoral researcher at UNICAMP – State University of Campinas. She studied music at Mannes College of Music in New York and theater and dramaturgy at Sala Beckett in Barcelona.
Beatriz Azevedo has collaborated with important Brazilian musicians and artists such as Maria Bethânia, Tom Zé, Cyro Baptista, Jaques Morelenbaum, Moreno Veloso and Vinicius Cantuária, as well as Teatro Oficina director Zé Celso. She has formed partnerships with the poet Augusto de Campos, the writers Hilda Hilst, Oswald de Andrade and Raul Bopp. Her musical compositions have been sung by Adriana Calcanhotto, Maria de Medeiros, Matheus Nachtergaele, Moreno Veloso, Tom Zé, Zélia Duncan and Zé Celso Martinez Correa, among others.
She has performed at Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, as well as taking part in various international festivals: Womex (Spain), Nublu Jazz Festival (New York), Celebrate Brazil at Lincoln Center (New York), CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival (New York), Femmes du Monde (Paris), Mirada Festival Ibero-Americano (Brazil), Popkomm Festival (Berlin), Dunya Festival (Rotterdam), Copa da Cultura (Berlin), Art Anthropophagie Aujourd’hui (Paris), Paraty International Literary Festival (FLIP), Verizon Music Festival (New York), among others.
https://www.beatrizazevedo.com/
INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/beatrizazevedo__/
YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/BeatrizAzevedo
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APPLE MUSIC https://music.apple.com/br/artist/beatriz-azevedo/259050953
PORTFOLIO https://www.beatrizazevedo.com/portfolio/
FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/beatrizazevedo/
Helio Flanders is a brazilian singer, songwriter, writer and translator. In the early 2000s he founded the group Vanguart, one of the most important bands in brazilian folk scene.
In 2012 Vanguart was the group with most nominations (6) in MTV Video Music Awards Brasil, having won in Best Band category.
In 2015, Helio released his first solo album, titled Uma Temporada Fora de Mim (A Season Out of Me), inspired by tango and deeply connected to argentinian poet Alejandra Pizarnik.
In 2016, he created the project Helio Flanders & As Folhas de Relva (Leaves of Grass), mixing his songs with Walt Whitman’s poetry, using his own translations of the poet and adding music to some of Walt’s verses.
This project took place throughout Brazil and countries like Portugal, Germany and Spain.
Helio’s first novel, Manual Para Sonhar de Olhos Abertos (Daydreaming Manual) was released in 2021.
INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/helioflanders
YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/c/HelioFlanders
