CURATION
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Network Node
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Name:
Bejun Mehta
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City/Place:
New York City
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Country:
United States
Life & Work
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Bio:
Bejun Mehta, hailed as "possibly the most sophisticated and musically convincing countertenor" (Opera News, 2018), is a frequent guest artist at renowned opera and concert venues worldwide. His performances grace esteemed stages such as the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin, Bavarian State Opera, Nederlandse Opera, Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie, Zurich Opera House, Teatro Real Madrid, Opéra National de Paris, Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera Chicago, Theater an der Wien, as well as prestigious festivals like Salzburg, Glyndebourne, and Aix-en-Provence.
Bejun Mehta's musical journey extends to leading orchestras and solo recitals in major concert halls, where he presents award-winning CD programs spanning from Baroque to contemporary music. He is a regular presence at venues such as the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Wiener Musikverein, Carnegie and Zankel Hall in New York, Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Cité de la Musique Paris, and festivals including Edinburgh, Verbier, Schleswig-Holstein, and the BBC Proms in London.
In the 2019/10 season, Bejun Mehta took on the title role in Handel's Giulio Cesare at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, followed by a revival of Rodelinda at Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam. On the concert stage, he performed George Benjamin's Dream of the Song in Stockholm and presented a new song program at Teatro alla Scala and Heidelberger Frühling. A concert tour featuring Handel's Alessandro saw him travel to Paris, Göttingen, and Basel.
Notable past seasons include a Mozart Arien concert under Zubin Mehta with the Vienna Philharmonic in the Vienna Musikverein, conducting and solo performances with his Mozart – The Dramatist program alongside the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra in the Vienna Musikverein and the Herkulessaal in Munich. On the opera stage, Bejun Mehta assumed the title role in a new production of Handel's Tamerlano at La Scala in Milan, portrayed Oberon in a new production of Britten's A Midsummernight’s Dream at Theater an der Wien, and played Bertarido in Rodelinda at Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.
Twice nominated for the Grammy and a 1997 winner as a producer for Janos Starker's RCA-released Bach Cello Suites, Bejun Mehta boasts a rich discography of 25 recordings, including solo and opera works. His achievements encompass accolades such as the Echo Klassik (opera recording of the year), Diapason d’Or (twice), Diamant d’Opéra Magazine, Choc de Classica, Opera Award, Gramophone Award-Contemporary, and Edison Klassiek, as well as BBC Music Magazine Premiere Recording of the year. Television profiles of Bejun Mehta have aired on CBS 60 Minutes II, A&E, Arte, ARD, and ORF 2. Holding a degree in German Literature from Yale University, he resides in Berlin and New York.
Contact Information
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Management/Booking:
Artist Management
KünstlerSekretariat am Gasteig
Montgelasstrasse 2
D-81679 München
Elisabeth Ehlers
Tel.: +49 89 4448879-0
Email: [email protected]
www.ks-gasteig.de
Clips (more may be added)
I created this matrix so the world could discover elemental cultural genius here in Bahia: João do Boi (rest in power), Roberto Mendes, Raymundo Sodré and magisterial others. To make these artists discoverable worldwide though, there's a catch: The matrix must encompass so far as possible ALL CREATORS EVERYWHERE.
The Integrated Global Creative Economy, uncoiling from this sprawling Indigenous, African, Sephardic and then Ashkenazic, Arabic, European, Asian cultural matrix.
The mathematics of the small world phenomenon transforming the creative universe into a creative village wherein all are connected by short pathways to all.
Tap the crosses on somebody's Matrix Page to recommend that person for that category.
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The crosses will turn green.
That person/category will appear in your My Curation & Recommendations.
You will appear in that person's Incoming Curation and Recommendations.
You and the person you are recommending will be pulled by mathematical gravity to within DISCOVERABLE distance of EVERYBODY ELSE INSIDE the Matrix.
In a small world great things are possible.
"Thanks, this is a brilliant idea!!"
—Alicia Svigals (NEW YORK CITY): Apotheosis of klezmer violinists
"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
Salvador is our base. If you plan to visit Bahia, there are some things you should probably know and you should first visit:
www.salvadorbahiabrazil.com
Conceived under a Spiritus Mundi ranging from the quilombos and senzalas of Cachoeira and Santo Amaro to Havana and the provinces of Cuba to the wards of New Orleans to the South Side of Chicago to the sidewalks of Harlem to the townships of South Africa to the villages of Ireland to the Roma camps of France and Belgium to the Vienna of Beethoven to the shtetls of Eastern Europe...*
Sodré
*...in conversation with Raymundo Sodré, who summed up the irony in this sequence by opining for the ages: "Where there's misery, there's music!" Hence A Massa, anthem for the trod-upon folk of Brazil, which blasted from every radio between the Amazon and Brazil's industrial south until Sodré was silenced, threatened with death and forced into exile...
And hence a platform whereupon all creators tend to accessible proximity to all other creators, irrespective of degree of fame, location, or the censor.
Matrix Ground Zero is the Recôncavo, bewitching and bewitched, contouring the resplendent Bay of All Saints (end of clip below, before credits), absolute center of terrestrial gravity for the disembarkation of enslaved human beings (and for the sublimity these people created), the bay presided over by Brazil's ineffable Black Rome (seat of the Integrated Global Creative Economy* and where Bule Bule is seated below, around the corner from where we built this matrix as an extension of our record shop).
Assis Valente's (of Santo Amaro, Bahia) "Brasil Pandeiro" filmed by Betão Aguiar
Betão Aguiar
("Black Rome" is an appellation per Caetano, via Mãe Aninha of Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá.)
*Darius Mans holds a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT, and lives between Washington D.C. and Salvador da Bahia.
Between 2000 and 2004 he served as the World Bank’s Country Director for Mozambique and Angola. In that capacity, Darius led a team which generated $150 million in annual lending to Mozambique, including support for public private partnerships in infrastructure which catalyzed over $1 billion in private investment.
Darius was an economist with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, where he worked closely with the U.S. Treasury and the IMF to establish a framework to avoid debt repudiation and to restructure private commercial debt in Brazil and Chile.
He taught Economics at the University of Maryland and was a consultant to KPMG on infrastructure projects in Latin America.
Replete with Brazilian greatness, but we listened to Miles Davis and Jimmy Cliff in there too; visitors are David Dye & Kim Junod for NPR/WXPN
I'm Pardal here in Brazil (that's "Sparrow" in English). The deep roots of this project are in Manhattan, where Allen Klein (managed the Beatles and The Rolling Stones) called me about royalties for the estate of Sam Cooke... where Jerry Ragovoy (co-wrote Time is On My Side, sung by the Stones; Piece of My Heart, Janis Joplin of course; and Pata Pata, sung by the great Miriam Makeba) called me looking for unpaid royalties... where I did contract and licensing for Carlinhos Brown's participation on Bahia Black with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock...
...where I rescued unpaid royalties for Aretha Franklin (from Atlantic Records), Barbra Streisand (from CBS Records), Led Zeppelin, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Airto Moreira, Jim Hall, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), Ray Barretto, Philip Glass, Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd for his interest in Bob Marley compositions, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam and others...
...where I worked with Earl "Speedo" Carroll of the Cadillacs (who went from doo-wopping as a kid on Harlem streetcorners to top of the charts to working as a janitor at P.S. 87 in Manhattan without ever losing what it was that made him special in the first place), and with Jake and Zeke Carey of The Flamingos (I Only Have Eyes for You)... stuff like that.
Yeah this is Bob's first record contract, made with Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd of Studio One and co-signed by his aunt because he was under 21. I took it to Black Rock to argue with CBS' lawyers about the royalties they didn't want to pay (they paid).
Matrix founding creators are behind "one of 10 of the best (radios) around the world", per The Guardian.
This list is random, and incomplete. Reload the page for another list.
Pardal/Sparrow
Ex Terra Brasilis
Wolfram MathWorld
UNIVERSAL
Alicia Svigals
Susan Rogers
Julian Lloyd Webber
Clarice Assad
Luciano Calazans
Kamasi Washington
Randy Brecker
Gustavo Caribé
J Velloso
Lázaro Ramos
Fernando Guerreiro
Maria Marighella
Russell Okung
Bule Bule
Caetano Veloso
RÁDIO MATRIX