Bernardo Bessler

Bernardo Bessler (b. 24 May 1954) is a Brazilian violinist, conductor, teacher, and producer.

Bessler was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is among the leading musicians of his country. His recordings have won for five consecutive years the Sharp Award for best classical album, highlight the New York Times among "the best of the year awards" and critics awards from the French magazines Répertoire, Le Monde and Gramophone, among others. Born in Rio de Janeiro, he began his violin studies at age five with Paulina D'Ambrosio. Later he studied with Yair Kless in Israel (Rubin Academy in Jerusalem) and with Andre Gertler in Belgium.

He plays a violin made in 1735 by Domenico Montagnana. As a producer has created dozens of series of concerts and shows with an educational basis. Directed and produced music festivals across the country and socially relevant projects for poor communities.

He has been performing since 1985 as first violin of the Bessler (later Bessler-Reis) Quartet,[1] notably in the historical recordings of Villa-Lobos string quartets.

The earlier Quarteto Bessler-Reis consisted of:

Bessler has performed in Belgium, Spain, Netherlands, France, Germany, Finland, Italy, Denmark, Bolivia, Israel, Canada, Colombia, United States and Japan. He participated in several recordings alongside dozens of the greatest popular artists of Brazilian music, especially the performances beside Tom Jobim, Caetano Veloso, Egberto Gismonti, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Chico Buarque etc. and as a soloist in concerts, and DVDs with Jane Duboc, Maria Bethania, Cassia Eller, Marisa Monte, among hundreds of others.[3][4]

Bessler also recorded for tracks for movies, Brazilian soap operas, theater and ballets.

References

  1. ↑ Jürgen Stegmüller, Das Streichquartett: eine internationale Dokumentation zur Geschichte der Streichquartett-Ensembles und Streichquartett-Kompositionen von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart, Quellenkataloge zur Musikgeschichte 40 (Wilhelmshaven: Florian Noetzel Verlag, 2006): 16, 75. ISBN 9783795907808.
  2. ↑ "String Quartets #12, 13, 14 (Bessler-Reis)". Heitor Villa-Lobos Website, Indiana University. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
  3. ↑ Sun-Sentinel May 22, 1989
  4. ↑ Miami Herald Aug 22, 1993

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