The first Night Concert of the 49th International Viola Congress will take place at the Auditorium of the Institute of Arts at UNICAMP at 7:30pm. The Orquestra Sinfônica Municipal de Jundiaí will be conducted by Claudia Feres. Jutta Puchhammer, violist, will also be part of this special night, performing two quite unknown pieces with the orchestra. The concert will start with La Gazza Ladra Overture by Rossini, followed by the two viola solo pieces, Concertino Op 46 by Sitt and Fantasia by Erod. To conclude this great program, the Orquestra Sinfônica Municipal de Jundiaí prepared a selection with some of the Slovanic Dances Op 46 by Dvorak. You can’t miss this concert!
ORQUESTRA SINFÔNICA MUNICIPAL DE JUNDIAÍ
The Orquestra Sinfônica Municipal de Jundiaí (OSMJ) is an artistic body linked to the Culture Management Unit. Created in 2011, at the initiative of the Municipal Department of Culture, the Orchestra was an old desire of the population of Jundiaí, which began to be served by the municipal administration. Through its continuous and growing program, the Orchestra aims to educate the public and facilitate access to art in the city.
The OSMJ brought two important news in the 2022 season. The first of these is the arrival of the instruments of the wind and percussion families, which joined the string instruments present since its formation, which made it a symphonic orchestra. Another important news was the creation of a nucleus to work with young musicians.
Headed by conductor and artistic director Claudia Feres, the Orchestra has established itself as a promising ensemble, both for the excellence of its musicians and for the repertoire of its concerts, consolidating itself with each new season as a remarkable chamber ensemble within the musical scene of Brazilian classical music.
Even during the Covid-19 pandemic, OSMJ did not interrupt its work, showing a lot of innovation and creativity also in a virtual season. Among the initiatives, as a way of providing service to the population and the creation of quality artistic content, OSMJ made available several playlists, such as Music at Home, #tbt10anos, Radio OMJ, Beethoven (in honor of the 250th anniversary of the birth of the German composer), among others.
CLAUDIA FERES
Born in São Paulo, Claudia Feres graduated from UNICAMP with a degree in composition and conducting. She received a Master’s Degree in Music from Northwestern University (Chicago) under the guidance of Victor Yampolsky. She has also studied with Eleazar de Carvalho, Fábio Mechetti, Henrique Gregori, Teri Murai, Ronald Zollman, Gustav Meier, Robert Gutter, and Jorma Panula.
Claudia Feres was awarded the Medal of Honor of the City of Jundiaí for her work as Artistic Director of the Jundiaí Youth Orchestra. She has performed with the most important orchestras in Brazil, such as the OSESP and the Amazonas Philharmonic, and has conducted the Opera Giocosa del Friuli Venezia-Giulia, the Northwestern University Orchestra, and the North Shore Chamber Orchestra.
She won the Porto Alegre Symphony Orchestra’s competition for young conductors and participated in the 42nd Prague International Spring Competition and the International Institute for Conductors in Kyiv, where she conducted the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. She was chief conductor and artistic director of the Symphony Orchestra of the State University of Londrina, assistant conductor of the Santo André Symphony Orchestra, artistic director of the Jundiaí Chamber Orchestra, and chief conductor of the Heliópolis Youth Orchestra – Baccarelli Institute. From 2002 to 2006, she led the Women’s Philharmonic Orchestra in the AVON Women in Concert Project, performing in São Paulo, Curitiba, and Rio de Janeiro with sopranos Barbara Hendricks and Kiri Te Kanawa, as well as with artists of the popular music scene such as Rita Lee, Paula Lima, Vanessa da Mata, Margareth Menezes, Milton Nascimento and Daniela Mercury. She created and curated several concert series in Jundiaí/SP and Londrina/PR, taught conducting at the Souza Lima College, and since 1997 has been the Artistic Director of the Jundiaí Music School, where she also coordinated the Repertory Chamber Orchestra. She is currently the principal conductor and artistic director of the Orquestra Sinfônica Municipal de Jundiaí.
JUTTA PUCHHAMMER-SÉDELLIOT
The Viennese-born violist Jutta Puchhammer-Sédillot, former student of Siegfried Führlinger (Vienna) and Heidi Castleman (USA), is known as a violist of exceptional quality. She is full professor (tuitulaire) of viola and chamber music at the Université de Montréal, Canada, as well as on the faculties of the Orford Music (Festival Quebec), the TTT Project (teach teachers teach) in Villaricca, Chile and the Sarasota International Music Festival (USA). She also has taught at the Perlman Music Program (PMP), the Heifetz International Music Institute (Virginia) ), and the North American Viola Institute (NAVI).
She is reknown for her performances of rare late-romantic viola repertoire. Her solo CDs, entitled “Alto Romantic Fantasies” (works by Ph. Scharwenka, C.Reinecke, R. Fuchs, J. Joachim – Eclectra ECCD-2060) and « German Romantic Works » (sonatas by R.Fuchs, E. Naumann, F. Kiel, R.Schumann – Fidelio FIDC 018) have both been acclaimed in Fanfare magazine with praise :“Here the viola shines with as much fire as a passionate violin, cries with as much desperation as a cello, entices, seduces, and convinces the listener that no string instrument could be more versatile or beautiful.”
She also has recorded on CD (Centrediscs CMCCD21515) the viola concerto written specifically for her by Tim Brady with the Nova Scotia Symphony orchestra in 2015.
In 2017 Jutta won the German Best Edition Prize 2017 for her re-edition of 13 of the French “Pièces de Concours” (written from 1896-1940) published by Schott in 3 volumes (ED 22254-56). Her new double CD “Pièces de Concours.- Virtuosic romantic works by French composers” (Navona NV6065) has gotten rave reviews from Fanfare magazine as well as from the Strad Magazine, Das Orchester (Germany) , La Szena Musicale (Québéc) Infodad, Kathodik (Italy) and the Classical Modern Music Review.
Jutta has vast experience as a chamber musician, having been part of the Quatuor Claudel String Quartet, the Kegelstatt Clarinet/vla/pno Trio, the Montreal String Trio, the Wiener Nonet, the Ensemble La Piéta, the Ondine Piano Quartett and currently the Puchhammer-Desjardins Duo (vla/pno). Her participation in diverse festivals has permitted her to play with various artists of international reputation such as John Perry, André Laplante, Anton Kuerti, Caecilia Boschman, Chantal Juillet, Janos Starker, Laurence Lesser, Rudolf Leopold, Thomas Selditz, André Moisan Alain Trudel and Robert Langevin.
Jutta regularly gives masterclasses at the Juilliard School of Music, the Curtis Institute of Music (USA), the Cleveland Institute(USA), the University of Vienna, the University of Rotterdam, the Hautes Ecoles de Musique de Genève et de Lausanne in Europe as well as the Conservatoires Supérieures de Musique de Lyon and CRR in Paris.
She has also given masterclasses and a recital in the Primrose memorial Series at Brigham Young University, Provo (USA) in spring 2017.
Jutta was the Principal Violist of the Laval Symphony orchestra for 20 years until 2017; she was president of the Canadian Viola Society (CVS) from 2006-2014, and has been president of the International Viola Society (IVS) since 2020. She has been awarded the Maurice Riley prize for international achievement and recently the IVS “Silver Alto Clef”, the highest distinction given by the IVS.
