YEAR 2006-2007
Antonio Placer’s season was marked by “triangular” events, between Galicia, Sardinia and France. With plans for new recordings, new shows and a collection of poems to be published, a series of concerts in this European triangle are to be staged.
Antonio Placer, Michele Palmas
(©Anna Colombo)
The European première of CANCIONISTA
The show is jointly produced by ALMA MUSIQUES, S’ARD, JAZZ IN SARDEGNA and Voiron’s Grand Angle. With help and support from Ville de Grenoble (City of Grenoble), the Département de l’Isère, the Rhône-Alpes Region, Province of Cagliari, SACEM, SPEDIDAM, ADAMI and CNV.
Première, 17 November 2006
Opening Night Cagliari
EUROPEAN JAZZ EXPO festival (Sardinia)
Featuring: Antonio Placer (Galicia - singer, composer, conductor), Elena Ledda (Sardinia - singer), Simonetta Soro (Sardinia - singer), Jakes Aymonino (France - singer), Jean-Marie Machado (France - piano), Stracho Temelkovski (Macedonia - bass, guitar, percussion), Michele Palmas (Sardinia - sound engineer).
and introduction of the album Cancionista
S’ARD, Egea Music and Le Chant du Monde/Harmonia Mundi
French premiere of CANCIONISTA
24 November 2006: Nanterre – Maison de la Musique, Chorus Hauts-de-Seine festival
Introducing the album CANCIONISTA in France
16-17January 2007: Paris – Café de la Danse
The album Cancionista was greeted with various distinctions:
• awarded a ‘Bravo !!!’ by TRAD MAGAZINE, n°112 March-April 2007
• Paris media libraries ‘fell in love with it’, January 2007
• RADIO LATINA ‘fell in love with it’, January 2007
• rated as ‘ideal discotheque –world music’ by RDM musics, January 2007
• rated as ‘album of the month’ by GEO, January 2007
• ‘first page’ RAI 1 - RADIO 3, January 2007
Publishing Collection of poems-Disc BERGONDO
Éditions Espiral Maior (Galicia) Publishers, including:
• The trilingual collection of poems
A selection of original poems written by Antonio Placer in Spanish, French and Galician. Translations by François-Michel DURAZZO, Xavier SEOANE, Miguel Anxo FERNÁN VELLO.
• The album - 12 songs chosen among past recordings by Antonio Placer in the course of the last 12 years. Old tracks, new versions and previously unreleased material, featuring Galician artists as guests.
8 May 2007, press conference - signature, Corunna, in the presence of Pepín Fernandez (Mayor of Bergondo), of Rosa Cedrón (Galician singer), of Miguel Anxo Fernán Vello (writer and Espiral Maior publisher) and of Xavier Seoane (Galician poet).
Antonio Placer, Jean-François Baëz
(©Michele Palmas)
Antonio Placer’s season was marked by “triangular” events, between Galicia, Sardinia and France. With plans for new recordings, new shows and a collection of poems to be published, a series of concerts in this European triangle are to be staged.
Antonio Placer, Michele Palmas
(©Anna Colombo)
The European première of CANCIONISTA
The show is jointly produced by ALMA MUSIQUES, S’ARD, JAZZ IN SARDEGNA and Voiron’s Grand Angle. With help and support from Ville de Grenoble (City of Grenoble), the Département de l’Isère, the Rhône-Alpes Region, Province of Cagliari, SACEM, SPEDIDAM, ADAMI and CNV.
Première, 17 November 2006
Opening Night Cagliari
EUROPEAN JAZZ EXPO festival (Sardinia)
Featuring: Antonio Placer (Galicia - singer, composer, conductor), Elena Ledda (Sardinia - singer), Simonetta Soro (Sardinia - singer), Jakes Aymonino (France - singer), Jean-Marie Machado (France - piano), Stracho Temelkovski (Macedonia - bass, guitar, percussion), Michele Palmas (Sardinia - sound engineer).
and introduction of the album Cancionista
S’ARD, Egea Music and Le Chant du Monde/Harmonia Mundi
French premiere of CANCIONISTA
24 November 2006: Nanterre – Maison de la Musique, Chorus Hauts-de-Seine festival
Introducing the album CANCIONISTA in France
16-17January 2007: Paris – Café de la Danse
The album Cancionista was greeted with various distinctions:
• awarded a ‘Bravo !!!’ by TRAD MAGAZINE, n°112 March-April 2007
• Paris media libraries ‘fell in love with it’, January 2007
• RADIO LATINA ‘fell in love with it’, January 2007
• rated as ‘ideal discotheque –world music’ by RDM musics, January 2007
• rated as ‘album of the month’ by GEO, January 2007
• ‘first page’ RAI 1 - RADIO 3, January 2007
Publishing Collection of poems-Disc BERGONDO
Éditions Espiral Maior (Galicia) Publishers, including:
• The trilingual collection of poems
A selection of original poems written by Antonio Placer in Spanish, French and Galician. Translations by François-Michel DURAZZO, Xavier SEOANE, Miguel Anxo FERNÁN VELLO.
• The album - 12 songs chosen among past recordings by Antonio Placer in the course of the last 12 years. Old tracks, new versions and previously unreleased material, featuring Galician artists as guests.
8 May 2007, press conference - signature, Corunna, in the presence of Pepín Fernandez (Mayor of Bergondo), of Rosa Cedrón (Galician singer), of Miguel Anxo Fernán Vello (writer and Espiral Maior publisher) and of Xavier Seoane (Galician poet).
Antonio Placer, Jean-François Baëz
(©Michele Palmas)
LIVE PERFORMANCES
August 2007 BERGONDO –Guisamo Festival
July 2007 ROME – CASA DEL JAZZ
May 2007 GRENOBLE – THÉÂTRE MUNICIPAL
May 2007 TÉLÉGRENOBLE
April 2007 BERGONDO – CENTRE CULTUREL LA SENRRA
April 2007 LE GUILVINEC – CENTRE CULTUREL
February 2007 DIRECT 8 TV
January 2007 FRANCE CULTURE - Équinoxe Caroline Bourgine
January 2007 TOULOUSE - SALLE NOUGARO
January 2007 PARIS – CAFE DE LA DANSE
December 2006 BRON – ESPACE ALBERT CAMUS
November 2006 NANTERRE – MAISON DE LA MUSIQUE
November 2006 CAGLIARI – Festival EUROPEAN JAZZ EXPO
November 2006 VIDEOLINA TV SARDINIA
October 2006 THÉÂTRE SAINT-QUENTIN EN YVELINES / Scène Nationale
October 2006 FRANCE MUSIQUE – ‘Un mardi idéal’ Arielle Buteaux
July 2006 ADEM / NICE tour – Saorge
July 2006 ADEM / NICE tour – Villars-sur-Var
July 2006 ADEM / NICE tour – Levens
July 2006 LA CÔTE-SAINT ANDRÉ – Berlioz Museum
June 2006 CAGLIARI – Summer festival
June 2006 ROME – Basilica di Massenzio Literary festival
(concert-meeting with Spanish writer Arturo Pérez-Reverte)
April 2006 GORIZIA (Italy) – Auditorium, jazz festival
April 2006 ROME – Casa del Jazz
March 2006 CHICHILIANNE – Public Library
Elena Ledda (©Michele Palmas)
TEACHING
DEVELOPING AUDIENCE AWARENESS
• Talks at: Monestier-de-Clermont secondary school, Mounier secondary school, Paul-Bert primary school, MJC Mutualité - Grenoble, Lycée agricole - Saint-Ismier.
• Various interventions organised by the Granjou Cultural Centre: public rehearsals, and talks in and around schools, talks at ‘École du Spectateur’.
• Public rehearsals at Théâtre de Grenoble, in collaboration with Grenoble Academy of Music.
• Masterclass: Grenoble Aries graphics Institute (3D): work about image and music relation . Member of the examination jury.
• Teaching: Tours CFMI - François Rabelais University.
• Composition and orchestration for the Harmony Ensemble – Grenoble Academy of Music, directed by Éric Villevière.
• Coaching of young musicians in professionalisation process: Willie Schwartz and Diego Lloret.
TV, RADIOS, MEETINGS…
France Musique, Videolina TV (Sardinia), RAI UNO, France Inter, Radio France Internationale, France Culture, Direct 8 TV, Radio Libertaire, Radio Campus Paris, Alternantes FM, Radio Côteaux Pyrénnées, téléGrenoble, interviews – playlist etc on radios and televisions in the Rhône-Alpes Region., Grenoble’s Harmonia Mundi showcase.
A Galician-language article in reNOVA GALiza (a Galician civics, culture, solidarity review), July 2006, p. 55
www.forocivicogalegobcn.org
Antonio Placer, Simonetta Soro
(©Michele Palmas)