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Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Christopher Nupen
- City: London
- Country: United Kingdom
My Life & Work
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Bio:
Christopher Nupen began his broadcasting career in the Features Department of BBC Radio when he made HIGH FESTIVAL IN SIENA in 1962 for the BBC Third Programme at the invitation of Laurence Gilliam, a radio documentary of a new kind about the extraordinary summer music school of the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, where Nupen studied with Andrés Segovia and Alirio Diaz.
As a result of his radio programmes, he was invited by Huw Wheldon to move to television where he became the originator of a new kind of intimate classical music film - made possible for the first time by the invention of the first silent 16mm film cameras in the 1960s. His first film (DOUBLE CONCERTO) made in 1966, at the invitation of Huw Wheldon and David Attenborough with Vladimir Ashkenazy and Daniel Barenboim won two international prizes (Prague and Monte Carlo) and became a seminal work.
Nupen has been described by Sir Jeremy Isaacs and Sir Denis Forman as the undoubted master of the genre he pioneered and one whose work is an enduring source of musical delight.
- Much of his work has been built on intimate friendships with leading musicians, among them Jacqueline du Pré, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim, Pinchas Zukerman, Itzhak Perlman, Zubin Mehta, Nathan Milstein, Andrés Segovia, Isaac Stern, Evgeny Kissin and Daniil Trifonov.
- Maker of THE TROUT, the most frequently broadcast classical music film ever made.
- The first truly independent television producer in the UK and still going strong. He has made more than 80 television productions, all shown on major networks both in the UK and in Germany.
- In some ways, his later work is more adventurous than ever. His two latest films, both of a kind which he had never made before have, between them, won five international prizes.
- Worked with the same lighting cameraman, David Findlay and film editor, Peter Heelas from his first film until now.
- Given the longest retrospective that has ever been shown on British television, sixteen consecutive Saturday evenings on Channel 4 at 9.05 p.m. from the beginning of September until Christmas - described by Channel 4 as their biggest success of the year, overall.
- Maker of the top-selling classical DVD title of 2004, JACQUELINE du PRÉ IN PORTRAIT.
- Winner of DVD of the Year Award five times in 10 years.
- Through his work, Christopher Nupen has demonstrated convincingly that film and television are able to remember the artistic persona as nothing else can do and his films rank among the most enduring work that has yet been done for television. The Oxford philosopher and historian of ideas, Sir Isaiah Berlin, described some of them as being "At just about the highest level which television is capable of reaching".
My Media & Markets
- ▶ Website: http://allegrofilms.com
- ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/allegrofilms
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Quotes, Notes & Etc.
For the Sibelius films alone Christopher Nupen's life on this earth must be judged a life worth living.
- Terence Davies (prize-winning English director and screenwriter)
If ever you wonder why all of us get so much joy from listening to sublime music performed by great musicians, just watch any of Nupen’s films to be reminded of what led us there in the first place.
- Julian Haylock. Classic FM Magazine
The most gifted music documentarian of our age
- Classic FM Magazine
Nupen is the David Attenborough of the musical jungle. He feasts with the big beasts and is unafraid of snakes.
- Norman Lebrecht
The world's artistry via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other ...
... a project conceived and built in the fertile, fecund and atavistic ground zero of Bahia, Brazil initially for the discoverability of this singular region's dispossessed genius.
All explained in the window immediately below. Followed — beneath this window — by scores of magnificent artists, each leading to myriads more artists/categories. Inside this window also may be found our Brazilian record store radio, named by British journal The Guardian as one of 10 of the Best Radio Stations Around the World!
IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT
Brazil is not a European nation. It's not a North American nation. It's not an East Asian nation. It straddles -- jungle and desert and dense urban centers -- both the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn. It absorbed over ten times the number of African slaves taken to the United States of America, and much of its aboriginal population was absorbed into the general population-at-large. Its people have lived under oligarchy, plutocracy, dictatorships and massive corruption, with elements of these still strongly entrenched today.
But!
Brazil has buzz...not the shallow buzz of a fashionable moment...but the deep buzz of a population which in spite of -- or perhaps because of -- the tough slog through life they've been allotted by humanity's dregs-in-fine-linen, have chosen not to simply pull themselves along but to lift their voices in song and their bodies in dance...to eat well and converse well and much and to wring the joy out of the day-to-day happenings and small pleasures of life which are so often set aside or ignored in the European, North American, and East Asian nations.
For this Brazil has a genius perhaps unparalleled in all other countries and societies, a genius which thrives alongside peeling paint and holes in the streets and roads, under bad organization by the powers-that-be, both civil and governmental, under a constant rain of societal indignities...
Which is all to say that if you don't know Brazil and you're expecting any semblance of order, progress and light, you will certainly find the light! And the buzz of a people who for generations have responded to privation at many different levels by somehow rising above it all.
Raimundo Sodré, in a conversation ranging from New Orleans to Harlem and the South Side of Chicago ... through Appalachia and Irish villages and Russian shtetls and the unofficial symbol of Brazil's Bahian-born national music (the pandeiro) almost certainly having arrived in Brazil in the hands of Sephardic Jews (including conversos) fleeing the Inquisition, once remarked: "Where there's misery, there's music!"
A pandeirista on the roof. And it's not just music. And it's not just Brazil.
