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Brazilian double bassist Marcos Machado enjoys an international career as a concert artist, teacher and chamber musician. Machado is a faculty member at the University of Southern Mississippi (Hattiesburg, USA). At USM, Machado teaches classical double bass, chamber music and jazz studies and is the director of the Bass Symposium and the School of Music’s Strings Coordinator. He is also the principal bass of the Meridian Symphony. Marcos Machado has appeared as soloist and guest teacher in master classes in the United States and South America. Marcos maintains an active performing schedule having performed with renowned musicians such as Viktor Uzur, Carmelo de los Santos, Evgeny Rivkin, Levon Ambartsumian, Dimitri Berlinsky, Michael Cameron, Sherban Lupu, Ian Hobson, Lewis Nielson, Larry Panella, etc and toured in Italy, France, Switzerland, Portugal, Germany and England as principal bass and soloist. He has also participated in the Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland), and Vienne Jazz Festival (France). In London, he played in the Fairfield Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Marcos holds a doctor of musical arts degree in Music Performance from the University of Illinois. He has previously been a faculty member at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. Marcos has been principal bass of the Sinfonia da Camera Chamber Orchestra in Illinois and with Russian chamber orchestra ARCO. He has many CDs recorded with these orchestras. Marcos is also very active performing on the electric bass on which he recorded a CD with Rudolf Haken’s compositions.
With the Austin-based Conspirare Ensemble, Marcos has toured and recorded a CD Threshold of Night nominated for two 2009 Grammy Awards, and was part of the PBS Special that was broadcast nationally in March 2009 and is now available on DVD.
Important solo performances include the South American première of Frank Proto’s Carmen Fantasy, with Caxias do Sul Symphony Orchestra and performances as a soloist with OSPA (Porto Alegre Symphony Orchestra) including the South American première of Proto’s Nine Variants on Paganini. In 2007 he performed Proto’s “Four Scenes after Picasso” with the Meridian Symphony.
Recent performances include Charles Young’s Concerto for Double Bass with the USM’s Wind Ensemble and the Bottesini Grand Duo with the New Mexico University Symphony Orchestra. He was one of the guest artists and faculty at the 2009 Premier Orchestral Institute in Jackson, MS and at the 6th Northern Lights Festival in Minnesota. In Brazil, he was guest artist with the Camerata Antiqua in Curitiba performing Samskara by Jean Pascal Beintus and Nine Variants on Paganini by Frank Proto. He just returned from master classes in Montevideo at the Escuela Universitaria de Música and performed at SODRE’s Nelly Goitiño Hall. |
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