Banda Amizade - Banda Sinfónica de Aveiro was part of the 2009 edition of the WMC - World Music Contest of Kerkrade. Banda Amizade - Banda Sinfónica de Aveiro reached the 06th best score in the 2nd Division of the Concert Section. Congratulations!

Banda Amizade - Banda Sinfónica de Aveiro is going to have a Symphonic Band Course in Viseu - Portugal on the 04th and 05th of July. This Music Course will have the presence of Ernest Schelle and Carlos Marques (Conductor of Banda Amizade - Banda Sinfónica de Aveiro). The course will have its terminus with a great concert in the Auditorium of the Entreprising Association of Viseu (is located in the Industrial Zone of Coimbrões - Viseu) at 14h30m.

Banda Amizade - Banda Sinfónica de Aveiro is going to participate in the 2009 edition of the WMC - World Music Contest of Kerkrade. Banda Amizade - Banda Sinfónica de Aveiro will be competing in the 2nd Division of the Concert Section. Check out the promotional video about this contest on Youtube.

Banda Amizade - Banda Sinfónica de Aveiro will do a Concert on the 17th May at 04h:00m pm. This concert will take place at the Pavilhão de Portugal in the city Coimbra.

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Due to Banda Amizade - Banda Sinfónica de Aveiro's participation on the WMC - World Music Contest of Kerkrade 2009 in the Netherlands (Banda Amizade - Banda Sinfónica de Aveiro is scheduled to participate on the contest between the 16th and 23rd July 2009), the Music Course will be postponed. The Woodwinds Orchestra of Verão Amizade is scheduled for a possible participation on the 11th Purmerade International Youth Music Festival, in Purmerend in the Netherlands on July 2010. The next edition of Verão Amizade - Summer Music Course (2009/2010) will not be held on the same season of the year. Almost anything is still confirmed (everything will be cleared up in August 2009). The Summer Music Course will be held in three different stages:
1st stage: Christmas 2009 in Aveiro, Portugal
2nd stage: Easter 2010 in Aveiro, Portugal
3rd stage: July 2010 in the Netherlands

The Artist Director of Banda Amizade - Banda Sinfónica de Aveiro,
Carlos Martins Marques

Banda Amizade - Banda Sinfónica de Aveiro in partnership with Filarmonia das Beiras and DeCA (Communication and Arts Departament of the University de Aveiro) is organizing the 2nd Band Conduting Course given by the famous conductor Ernest Schelle. This Course has the main aim to give to those who want to learn all about the art of Conducting Concert Bands and Orchestras. The course will last 4 days, from the 27th until the 31st May 2009. The course enrolment will have its terminus on 15th of May 2009.

Banda Amizade - Banda Sinfónica de Aveiro was selected to participate in 2009 edition of the WMC - World Music Contest of Kerkrade! Banda Amizade - Banda Sinfónica de Aveiro will be competing in 2nd Division of the Concert Section.

The compulsory piece was composed by the Dutch composer Johan de Meij and it is entitled "Dutch Masters Suite". This musical piece includes three movements:
1. De Nachtwacht
2. De Liefdesbrief
3. Prinsjesdag

The free choice piece was composed by the English composer Nigel Clarke and it is entitled "Gagarin". This musical piece also includes three movements:
1. Road to the stars
2. Orbit
3. Homecoming

This World Music Contest is held once in four years (the last contest was held in 2005). The contest commission gives a warm welcome to approximately 10,000 Dutch and 11,000 foreign musicians in 2009! The Bands, fanfarres, Brassbands, Marching Bands are from all over the world: The Netherlands, Belgium, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Denmark, Portugal, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, South Africa, South Korea, Brazil, China, Latvia, Colombia, Mexico, Australia and so on. The contest has usually an enormous audience, over 650,000 people (this number was registered in the contest's 2005 edition)! This is really one of the most important music events in the world! Banda Amizade - Banda Sinfónica de Aveiro was selected from 350 band applications from all over the world! Each band formation had to reach a certain level of quality standards highly required by the contest comission. Banda Amizade - Banda Sinfónica de Aveiro has been awarded many times and had been envited to be part of some music festivals in Portugal, France, Germany, Sweden, Spain and more recently in Italy. With this curriculum vitae, Banda Amizade - Banda Sinfónica de Aveiro has acquired her most wanted goal that was to be selected to participate in such important and famous World Music Contest. Good luck to Aveiro's "Música Velha" for nearly 175 years of cultural service!

Banda Amizade - Banda Sinfónica de Aveiro will do a Concert on the 08th February at 03h:30m pm. This concert will take place at the Headquarters of Banda Filarmónica Sociedade Musical 2 de Fevereiro.
Here it is the list of music pieces that will be interpreted by Banda Amizade - Banda Sinfónica de Aveiro:
Richmond Avenue - Eric Swiggers
Gagarin - Nigel Clarke
Divine Comedy (Sinfonia) - Robert W. Smith
Inferno
Purgatorio
Ascension
Paradiso
Português Cantando - Carlos Marques

Conductor: Carlos Marques
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