CURATION
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Name:
Bejun Mehta
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City/Place:
New York City
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Country:
United States
Life
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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
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The Integrated Global Creative Economy
Wolfram Mathematics
Bahia was final port-of-call for more enslaved human beings than any other place on earth throughout all of human history...refuge for Sephardim fleeing the Inquisition...Indigenous both apart and subsumed into a sociocultural matrix which is all of these: a small-world matrix (see Wolfram). Human society, the billions of us, is small-world. Neural structures for human memory are small-world. This technological matrix positioning creators around the world within reach of each other and the entire planet is able to do so because it is also small-world...
In small worlds great things are possible.
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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