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Ana Paula Cruz
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Rio de Janeiro
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Brazil
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Ana Paula Cruz é professora, arranjadora, flautista e saxofonista licenciada em música pela UNIRIO, Mestre em Práticas Interpretativas pela mesma instituição e pós-graduada em Arteterapia pela Universidade Cândido Mendes.
De sólida formação erudita e popular, Ana Paula Cruz iniciou seus estudos de flauta transversal em 1993, na classe do Professor Carlos Alberto Rodrigues, nos Seminários de Música Pró-Arte. Na mesma instituição, foi integrantes dos Flautistas da Pró-Arte de 1992 a 2003, onde mergulhou no universo da música popular brasileira.
Desde então já estudou com os professores Alejandro Lavanderos (Chile), Wendy Rolfe (EUA), Tom Moore (EUA), Julie Koidin (EUA), Fernando Brandão (Brasil), Andrea Ernest Dias (Brasil) e Odette Ernest Dias (Brasil), entre outros. Participou de diversos festivais, entre os quais o Festival de Inverno de Parati (1995, 1996 e 1997); Festival de Inverno de Ouro Preto (1996); Festival de Inverno de Friburgo (2003); 14º Festival Internacional de Música Colonial Brasileira e Música Antiga de Juiz de Fora (2003) e o V Festival de Música de Câmara de Curitiba (2003). No ano 2000, fez sua primeira turnê internacional através do Intercâmbio Amizade Cultural Brasil – França promovido Association Place au Piano, com o apoio da Embaixada do Brasil na França.
Na música erudita já atuou como flautista e piccolista da Orquestra de Câmara da UNIRIO, 2003; da Orquestra Sinfônica do II Festival de Inverno do Rio de Janeiro, 2003; da Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira Jovem, 2002 a 2004; da Orquestra Sinfônica Municipal de Santos (OSMS), 2005. Foi integrante do Trio Rónai (2002 à 2009): trio de flautas especializado em música brasileira contemporânea que em 2008, com o patrocinado pelo MinC (Ministério da Cultura), realizou uma turnê tocando no Conservatório Superior de Amsterdã. Em 2009, o Trio Ronái, a convite da Embaixada Brasileira, fez o concerto de lançamento do CD “Sem Espera”, do compositor Sérgio Roberto de Oliveira, em Londres no Bolivar Hall.
Ana Paula Cruz atuou como Coordenadora Pedagógica (2012 – 2014) Musical da Ong Afroreggae em Parada de Lucas e Vigário Geral, Rio de Janeiro. Nesta instituição atuou como Diretora Musical do “Sexteto de Sopros” do Afroreggae; ensaiadora da Orquestra Sinfônica Afroreggae; idealizadora, diretora musical e arranjadora dos “Flautistas do Afroreggae”. Atualmente é professora da Cadeira de Flauta Transversal no Curso Técnico Integrado em Música em do Colégio Pedro II de Realengo. Nesta instituição é Diretora Musical e arranjadora dos “Flautistas do Colégio Pedro II”, “Grupo de Choro de Realengo” e da “Orquestra de Sopros do Colégio Pedro II”.
Junto à academia, Ana Paula Cruz, tem realizado diversas funções: Coordenadora Artística do X Encontro Regional Sudoeste da ABEM e no III Encontro de Educação Musical do Colégio Pedro II (2016); como palestrante, Encontro Carioca de Flautas da UNIRIO (2016) do Rio Flute Fast / UFRJ (2017) e Encontro de Flautistas da Escola de Música da Rocinha (2020).
Musicista versátil, Ana Paula Cruz, atua no cenário musical popular carioca com artistas renomados como Teresa Cristina, Nilze Carvalho, Dayse do Banjo, Dorina, Trio Sambadona, Patricia Mellodi, além de gravar no mercado fonográfico como flautista e backing vocal nos trabalhos da cantora Maíra Freitas, Grupo Moça Prosa e Awurê. Desde 2019 Ana Paula Cruz assina a direção musical do Encontro de Mulheres na Roda de Samba, projeto idealizado pela cantora Dorina que tem a proposta de unir as rodas de samba femininas de todo país oportunizando e aumentando a troca cultural e o fortalecimento das mulheres no samba. Atua também como instrumentista nos coletivos “Mulheres na Roda de Samba”, “Mulheres do Samba Notícias” e “Coletivo Matinês”. No mesmo ano, foi convidada para fazer a direção musical e participar como instrumentista do show “Sorriso Negro” da cantora Teresa Cristina, se apresentando no Viradão Cultural (SP), Casa Natura Musical (SP), no Circo Voador (RJ) e no Cine Teatro São Luiz no (CE).
No Ano de 2020, a flautista teve projeção como intérprete solista se apresentando como abertura instrumental das lives da cantora Teresa Cristina. Participou também de diversas lives e entrevistas importantes como: WEB Rádio Assuna, Museu do Samba, Viradão Cultural do Dia da Mulher Sambista, “Mulheres no Sopro: Histórias e Influências”, “Samba Original do Movimento das Mulheres Sambistas” e “Homenagem a Elza Soares pelo Mulheres na Roda de Samba”. Participou também da homenagem virtual ao aniversário de 96 anos de Nelson Sargento ao lado de nomes ilustres da música brasileira como Alcione, Xande de Pilares, Teresa Cristina, entre outros.
No ano de 2021 participou da IV Edição do Festival Instrumental Mulambo Jazz Agrário com o grupo ZO (Zona Oeste Instrumental) que prestou uma homenagem ao flautista Fernando Grilo e ao Maestro Letieres Leite, interpretando as composições desses grandes mestres da música instrumental. No mesmo ano, Ana Paula Cruz, deu início ao seu projeto solo e lançou o single: “Tempo Rei”. A releitura desta canção de Gilberto Gil na versão da instrumentista traz uma roupagem contemporânea que contempla o rap, trap, baião, samba e poesia numa mesma música. Em 2022, Ana Paula Cruz, lançou o EP “Referências” interpretando versões instrumentais de Daniele Spielman, Nelsinho Freitas, Vinícius de Moraes e Baden Powell.
English:
Ana Paula Cruz is a teacher, arranger, flutist, and saxophonist licensed in music by UNIRIO, with a Master's degree in Interpretive Practices from the same institution, and a postgraduate degree in Art Therapy from Universidade Cândido Mendes.
With a solid background in both classical and popular music, Ana Paula Cruz began her transverse flute studies in 1993 under the guidance of Professor Carlos Alberto Rodrigues at the Pró-Arte Music Seminars. She was also a member of the Pró-Arte Flutists from 1992 to 2003, immersing herself in the world of Brazilian popular music.
Since then, she has studied with professors such as Alejandro Lavanderos (Chile), Wendy Rolfe (USA), Tom Moore (USA), Julie Koidin (USA), Fernando Brandão (Brazil), Andrea Ernest Dias (Brazil), and Odette Ernest Dias (Brazil), among others. She has participated in various festivals, including the Festival de Inverno de Parati (1995, 1996, and 1997); Festival de Inverno de Ouro Preto (1996); Festival de Inverno de Friburgo (2003); 14th International Festival of Brazilian Colonial and Ancient Music in Juiz de Fora (2003) and the V Festival de Música de Câmara de Curitiba (2003). In 2000, she undertook her first international tour through the Cultural Friendship Exchange Brazil-France promoted by the Association Place au Piano, with the support of the Brazilian Embassy in France.
In the classical music realm, she has served as a flutist and piccolo player for the UNIRIO Chamber Orchestra in 2003, the Symphony Orchestra of the II Rio de Janeiro Winter Festival in 2003, the Brazilian Youth Symphony Orchestra from 2002 to 2004, and the Municipal Symphony Orchestra of Santos (OSMS) in 2005. She was a member of Trio Rónai (2002 to 2009), a flute trio specialized in contemporary Brazilian music. In 2008, sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, the trio toured and performed at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. In 2009, at the invitation of the Brazilian Embassy, Trio Ronái gave a concert in London at Bolivar Hall to launch the CD "Sem Espera" by composer Sérgio Roberto de Oliveira.
From 2012 to 2014, Ana Paula Cruz served as the Musical Pedagogical Coordinator of the Afroreggae NGO in Parada de Lucas and Vigário Geral, Rio de Janeiro. In this institution, she acted as the Musical Director of the "Sexteto de Sopros" of Afroreggae, rehearsal conductor of the Afroreggae Symphony Orchestra, and the creator, musical director, and arranger of the "Flautistas do Afroreggae." Currently, she is a professor of Transverse Flute at the Technical Integrated Music Course at Colégio Pedro II in Realengo. In this institution, she is the Musical Director and arranger of the "Flautistas do Colégio Pedro II," "Grupo de Choro de Realengo," and the "Orquestra de Sopros do Colégio Pedro II."
Within academia, Ana Paula Cruz has performed various roles, including Artistic Coordinator of the X Southwest Regional Meeting of ABEM and the III Music Education Meeting of Colégio Pedro II (2016). She has also been a speaker at the Carioca Flute Meeting of UNIRIO (2016), Rio Flute Fast / UFRJ (2017), and the Meeting of Flutists of the Rocinha School of Music (2020).
As a versatile musician, Ana Paula Cruz is active in the popular music scene in Rio de Janeiro, collaborating with renowned artists such as Teresa Cristina, Nilze Carvalho, Dayse do Banjo, Dorina, Trio Sambadona, Patricia Mellodi, and recording as a flutist and backing vocalist for Maíra Freitas, Grupo Moça Prosa, and Awurê. Since 2019, Ana Paula Cruz has been the musical director of the "Encontro de Mulheres na Roda de Samba," a project conceived by singer Dorina aimed at uniting female samba circles nationwide, fostering cultural exchange and strengthening women in samba. She also plays as an instrumentalist in collectives such as "Mulheres na Roda de Samba," "Mulheres do Samba Notícias," and "Coletivo Matinês." In the same year, she was invited to be the musical director and instrumentalist for the show "Sorriso Negro" by singer Teresa Cristina, performing at Viradão Cultural (SP), Casa Natura Musical (SP), Circo Voador (RJ), and Cine Teatro São Luiz (CE).
In 2020, the flutist gained prominence as a solo performer, opening instrumental shows for singer Teresa Cristina's live performances. She also participated in various important live sessions and interviews, including WEB Rádio Assuna, Museu do Samba, Viradão Cultural do Dia da Mulher Sambista, "Mulheres no Sopro: Histórias e Influências," "Samba Original do Movimento das Mulheres Sambistas," and "Homenagem a Elza Soares pelo Mulheres na Roda de Samba." She also took part in the virtual tribute to Nelson Sargento's 96th birthday alongside illustrious names in Brazilian music such as Alcione, Xande de Pilares, Teresa Cristina, among others.
In 2021, she participated in the IV Edition of the Mulambo Jazz Agrário Instrumental Festival with the ZO (Zona Oeste Instrumental) group, paying tribute to flutist Fernando Grilo and Maestro Letieres Leite by interpreting the compositions of these great masters of instrumental music. In the same year, Ana Paula Cruz launched her solo project and released the single "Tempo Rei." The instrumental reinterpretation of this Gilberto Gil song incorporates contemporary elements such as rap, trap, baião, samba, and poetry into a single musical piece. In 2022, Ana Paula Cruz released the EP "Referências," featuring instrumental versions of compositions by Daniele Spielman, Nelsinho Freitas, Vinícius de Moraes, and Baden Powell.
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The Integrated Global Creative Economy
Wolfram Mathematics
This technological matrix, originating in Bahia, Brazil and positioning creators around the world within reach of each other and the entire planet, is able to do so because it is small-world (see Wolfram).
Bahia itself, final port-of-call for more enslaved human beings than any other place on earth throughout all of human history, refuge for Lusitanian Sephardim fleeing the Inquisition, Indigenous both apart and subsumed into a brilliant sociocultural matrix comprised of these three peoples and more, is small-world.
Human society, the billions of us in all the complexity of our relationships, is small-world. Neural structures for human memory are small-world. Neural structures in artificial intelligence are small-world...
In small worlds great things are possible. In a matrix they can be created.
Alicia Svigals
"Thanks, this is a brilliant idea!!"
—Alicia Svigals (NEW YORK CITY): Apotheosis of klezmer violinists
"I'm truly thankful ... Sohlangana ngokuzayo :)"
—Nduduzo Makhathini (JOHANNESBURG): piano, Blue Note recording artist
"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers (BOSTON): Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory ... Former personal recording engineer for Prince; "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"
"Dear Sparrow, Many thanks for this – I am touched!"
—Julian Lloyd Webber (LONDON): Premier cellist in UK; brother of Andrew (Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Phantom of the Opera...)
"This is super impressive work ! Congratulations ! Thanks for including me :)))"
—Clarice Assad (RIO DE JANEIRO/CHICAGO): Pianist and composer with works performed by Yo Yo Ma and orchestras around the world
"We appreciate you including Kamasi in the matrix, Sparrow."
—Banch Abegaze (LOS ANGELES): manager, Kamasi Washington
"Thanks! It looks great!....I didn't write 'Cantaloupe Island' though...Herbie Hancock did! Great Page though, well done! best, Randy"
"Very nice! Thank you for this. Warmest regards and wishing much success for the project! Matt"
—Son of Jimmy Garrison (bass for John Coltrane, Bill Evans...); plays with Herbie Hancock and other greats...
Dear friends & colleagues,
Having arrived in Salvador 13 years earlier, I opened a record shop in 2005 in order to create an outlet to the wider world for Bahian musicians, many of them magisterial but unknown.
David Dye & Kim Junod for NPR found us (above), and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (he's a huge jazz fan), David Byrne, Oscar Castro-Neves... Spike Lee walked past the place while I was sitting on the stoop across the street drinking beer and listening to samba from the speaker in the window...
But we weren't exactly easy for the world-at-large to get to. So in order to extend the place's ethos I transformed the site associated with it into a network wherein Brazilian musicians I knew would recommend other Brazilian musicians, who would recommend others...
And as I anticipated, the chalky hand of God-as-mathematician intervened: In human society — per the small-world phenomenon — most of the billions of us on earth are within some 6 or fewer degrees of each other. Likewise, within a network of interlinked artists as I've described above, most of these artists will in the same manner be at most a handful of steps away from each other.
So then, all that's necessary to put the Bahians and other Brazilians within possible purview of the wide wide world is to include them among a wide wide range of artists around that world.
If, for example, Quincy Jones is inside the matrix (people who have passed are not removed), then anybody on his page — whether they be accessing from a campus in L.A., a pub in Dublin, a shebeen in Cape Town, a tent in Mongolia — will be close, transitable steps away from Raymundo Sodré, even if they know nothing of Brazil and are unaware that Sodré sings/dances upon this planet. Sodré, having been knocked from the perch of fame and ground into anonymity by Brazil's dictatorship, has now the alternative of access to the world-at-large via recourse to the vast potential of network theory.
...to the degree that other artists et al — writers, researchers, filmmakers, painters, choreographers...everywhere — do also. Artificial intelligence not required. Real intelligence, yes.
Years ago in NYC I "rescued" unpaid royalties (performance & mechanical) for artists/composers including Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin, Mongo Santamaria, Jim Hall, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd (for his rights in Bob Marley compositions; Clement was Bob's first producer), Led Zeppelin, Ray Barretto, Philip Glass and many others. Aretha called me out of the blue vis-à-vis money owed by Atlantic Records. Allen Klein (managed The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles) called about money due the estate of Sam Cooke. Jerry Ragovoy (Time Is On My Side, Piece of My Heart) called just to see if he had any unpaid money floating around out there (the royalty world was a shark-filled jungle, to mangle metaphors, and I doubt it's changed).
But the pertinent client (and friend) in the present context is Earl "Speedo" Carroll, of The Cadillacs. Earl went from doo-wopping on Harlem streetcorners to chart-topping success to working as a custodian at PS 87 elementary school on the west side of Manhattan. Through all of this he never lost what made him great.
Greatness and fame are too often conflated. The former should be accessible independently of the latter.
Matrix founding creators are behind "one of 10 of the best (radios) around the world", per The Guardian.
Recent access to this matrix and Bahia are from these places (a single marker can denote multiple accesses).
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Nduduzo Makhathini
Susan Rogers
Julian Lloyd Webber
Clarice Assad
Kamasi Washington
Randy Brecker
Matt Garrison
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