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TEACHER: Gerardo Ribeiro

Violinist
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Professor of Violin, Northwestern University

BIOGRAPHY: Gerardo Ribeiro, Portugal's premier violinist, is recognized on four continents as one of the truly important violinists of his generation. With acclaimed recitals at New York city's most prestigious concert venues - Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and the Metropolitan Museum - Mr. Ribeiro has also appeared at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center, and is well known in major European, South American and Far Eastern Concert halls.

As a concerto soloist, Mr. Ribeiro has appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Montreal, Dallas, Lucerne, Lisbon, Barcelona and Cali Symphony Orchestra, the Radio Orchestras of Paris (O.R.T.F.), Berlin, Hilversum (Holland) and North Germany (Hannover) and other leading ensembles. Also active in chamber music, he has served as artistic director of the International Chamber Music Institute in Munich and has performed at the Marlboro and Lucerne International Music Festivals.

Beginning violin studies at age four, Ribeiro went on to earn honors at the Lucerne conservatory, later attending the Juilliard School, where he studied with Ivan Galamian, Paul Makanowitzky and Felix Galimir. Numerous awards in distinguished international competitions followed, including First Prizes at the Vienna de Motta contest in Lisbon and the Maria Canals Ribeiro joined the faculty at Northwestern University as professor of violin. In 2001 he was awarded the Presidential Scholars Teacher Recognition Award from the White House's Commission on Presidential Scholars.

Gerardo Ribeiros recordings are available on the EMI and RCA labels. He has recorded the complete violin sonatas of both Brahms and Beethoven, along with violin concerti bt Mendelssohn, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Strauss and others.

Mr. Ribeiro was recently decorated by the President of Portugal as Commander of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator.

BIOGRAFIA: Gerardo Ribeiro é actualmente reconhecido em quatro continentes como um dos mais importantes violinistas virtuosos da sua geração. Tendo realizado recitais nalgumas das mais prestigiadas salas de concerto nova-iorquinas, como Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall e Metropolitan Museum, Gerardo Ribeiro apresentou-se igualmente no Kennedy Center de Washington e é apreciado nos principais centros musicais da Europa, América do Sul e Extremo-Oriente.

Como solista de concerto, Gerardo Ribeiro actuou já com as Orquestras Sinfónicas de Filadélfia, Montreal, Dallas, Lucerna, Barcelona e Cali, as Orquestras Filarmónicas de Zagreb e Antuérpia, as Orquestras Nacionais de Taiwan e Bélgica, a Orquestra da Rádio de Paris, as Orquestras de Hilversum (Holanda) e de Hannover (Alemanha) e com a Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa, entre outras formações de primeiro plano. No domínio da música de câmara, exerceu a direcção artística do Instituto Internacional de Música de Câmara de Munique e actuou no Festivais Internacionais de Música de Marlboro e Lucerna.

Gerardo Ribeiro iniciou os seus estudos musicais com a idade de quatro anos, frequentando depois o Conservatório de Lucerna e a Juilliard School, tendo estudado nesta instituição com Ivan Galamian, Paul Makanowitzky e Felix Galimir. No decurso da sua carreira subsequente, obteve numerosos prémios em destacados concursos internacionais, como os Concursos Paganini e de Montreal, e venceu o Concurso Viana da Mota, em Lisboa, e o Concurso Maria Canals, em Barcelona. Depois de ter ensinado violino na Eastman School of Music, Gerardo Ribeiro integrou o quadro docente da Universidade de Northwestern como professor de violino.

As gravações de Gerardo Ribeiro encontram-se disponíveis nas etiquetas EMI e RCA. No âmbito de um projecto ainda em curso, desenvolvido em conjunto com a RCA, Gerardo Ribeiro tem vindo a gravar a integral das sonatas para violino de Brahms e Beethoven, a par com o Concerto para Violino e o Duplo Concerto de Brahms (ca Septemro 2000).