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Benjamin
Coelho, Associate Professor of Bassoon,
has been at the University of Iowa since 1998. He has appeared as soloist,
chamber musician, orchestral musician, teacher and clinician in North and South
America and Europe. An avid chamber musician, he was a founding member of the
Manhattan Wind Quintet, which performed numerous concert tours throughout the
United States. The group won various chamber music competitions including
Artists International, Coleman, and Monterey Peninsula Chamber Music
Competition. In 1987 the quintet played a sold-out concert at Carnegie Recital
Hall in New York.
An
enthusiastic proponent of new music, Coelho has commissioned, performed and
recorded many works by European, American and Latin American composers. His two
solo CDs are on Albany and Crystal Records. He was a member of Wizards! A Double Reed Consort, and has recorded two CDs with this group.
Before
his position at the University of Iowa, Coelho was the Vice-Dean and Bassoon
Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil). As a performer in
his native Brazil, he held principal positions with symphony orchestras in Rio
de Janeiro, Campinas, and Belo Horizonte. He currently performs as principal
bassoon with the Cedar Rapids Symphony and the Iowa Woodwind Quintet.
CD844:
Bravura Bassoon. Benjamin Coelho, Bassoon. Heitor
Villa-Lobos: Corrupio, Bailado
for bassoon and string quintet; Johann Evangelist Brandl:
Quintet in B-flat Major, Op. 52, No. 1; Gordon Jacob: Suite for Bassoon and
String Quartet; Bernhard Heiden: Serenade for
Bassoon, Violin, Viola, and Cello; Gerardo Diri: Anjo Breve for bassoon and string quintet UPC
00941478442-1 
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Benjamin
Coelho with the Maia String Quartet, Christine Rutledge, viola, Volkan Orhon, bass, and Anthony Arnone, conductor.
Sound samples (uses RealPlayer) Click on the link to hear up to one minute of
the movement shown.
Brandl: Quintet in Bb: Allegro
ma non troppo Andante
con moto Minuetto Moderato
Jacob: Suite: Prelude
Caprice
Elegy
Rondo
Heiden: Serenade: Notturno
March
Intermezzo
Scherzo
Epilogue
Villa-Lobos: Corrupio, Bailado
Diri: Anjo Breve: Preambulo A
Bengala Zuniu no Ar Ao Longo do Tempo
CD358: Pas de Trois. Kenneth Tse, Saxophone;
Benjamin Coelho, Bassoon; Alan Huckleberry, Piano. Bernard Van Beurden,
Pas de trois; Jindrich
Feld, Trio Giocoso; David Froom, Arirang Variations; Perry Goldstein, Noir; Don
Freund, Louder than Words. UPC
00941473582-9. ORDER NOW
Saxophone, Bassoon, and Piano is an unusual combination that creates an exciting and vibrant sound. The works on this CD represent some of the finest writing for this combination, and the performers are three of the best practitioners of their art.
Kenneth Tse "plays with seductive tonal
beauty" (American
Record Guide) and is "a brilliant saxophonist...worthy of any stage in
the world." (Eugene Rousseau). Benjamin Coelho's "playing
is unfailingly sonorous, expressive and alert." (Gramophone) Alan Huckleberry has "technical
mastery and interpretive panache." (Fanfare) The three
musicians are on the faculty at the University of Iowa and perform
internationally.
"Both Kenneth Tse and Benjamin Coelho play
with warm, full tone and with enviable agility. Alan Huckleberry ably
accompanies them, and then some, because this music rarely relegates him to the
back seat. His alert playing is a fine foil for his partners and for the music
too." International Record Review, October 2006
"The Pas de Trois CD
is living proof of just how exciting the saxophone can be in a chamber
ensemble. ... To sum up this trio's performance would be to say they are simply
superb. This trio of three virtuoso musicians has created a completely
exhilarating musical experience on this CD. This is a CD that you don't want to
miss. Bravo!" Saxophone Journal, Nov/Dec 2006
"From Crystal comes yet another program of stimulating chamber
works by fairly obscure composers. As usual, it is beautifully performed and
recorded with great presence."
Fanfare Magazine, Nov/Dec 2006
"These performances are as good as they can be. The three of them
play with impeccable musicianship, exhilarating technique, and panache; and
they deliver nothing short of the best. Not only is it a delight to hear them
play, but this music is a pleasure to hear." American Record Guide, Nov/Dec 2006
"While the instrumentation of this trio may seem
unusual, the timbres blend beautifully and create interesting counterpoint
throughout this wonderful recording." The Instrumentalist Magazine, August 2006
Sound samples (uses RealPlayer) Click on the link
to hear up to one minute of the movement shown.
Van Beurden:
Pas de trois: Ouverture Pastorale Tarantella Feld: Trio Giocoso: Allegro Andante Allegro
vivo Froom: Arirang
Variations Goldstein: Noir Freund:
Louder than Words: Part
I Part
II
CD874:
CLASSICAL WIZARDS. Performed
by WiZARDS! A Double Reed Consort. Beethoven, Trio, op. 87, for 2 oboes and English horn; Antonio Salieri,
Variations sulia Follia di Spagna, for 2 oboes, 2 English horns, & 2 bassoons; W.
A. Mozart, Impressario Overture, trans. for 3 oboes, English horn, 2 bassoons, and contra
bassoon; Johann Baptist Schenk, Quartetto for oboe, 2
English horns, and bassoon; Frantisek Xaver Dussek, Parthia for 2 oboes, 2 English horns, and
bassoon. UPC 00941478742-2 ORDER NOW
WiZARDS!
has been called "the world's series of double reed playing."
They have toured throughout the U.S.and appeared at
many music festivals. Their first CD received great recognition for its
"miraculous playing...magic abounds" (Fanfare). The players
perform in orchestras throughout the Great Lakes region and teach at colleges
in Iowa City; Oshkosh, Wisconsin; Chicago, Illinois; and others. Members of the
group are Mark Weiger, Andrea Gullickson, oboes; S.
Blake Duncan, English horn; Greg Morton, bassoon. Assisted by Michael
Ericson, oboe/English horn; Benjamin Coelho, bassoon; Michael Dicker,
contrabassoon.
Sound samples (uses RealPlayer) Click on the link to hear approximately one minute of the
movement shown.
Beethoven Trio: Mvt 1 (Allegro) Mvt 2 (Adagio) Mvt 3 (Menuetto) Mvt 4 (Finale) Schenk Quartetto:
Mvt 1 (Allegro moderato) Mvt 2(Menuetto) Mvt 3(Un poco adagio) Mvt 4(Rondo) Salieri: Variations Dussek:
Parthia Mvt 1 Mvt 2 Mvt 3 Mvt 4 Mozart:
Impressario Overture
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