Events Schedule 2012: Ruben Bettencourt （Classical guitarist）

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NewsLetter – RUBEN BETTENCOURT

18 January 2012
Ruben Bettencourt Highlight

Events Schedule 2012:
28 January 2012 – Concert in Clube Literário do Porto (Oporto City)
28 March 2012 – Concert in Joanina Library (Ex libris of Coimbra City)
30 March 2012 – Concerto in Nogueira Silva Museum (Braga)
13 May 2012 – Concert in Nijmegen Concertgebouw (Netherlands)
18 May 2012 – Concerto in Music Museum (Alto dos Moinhos – Lisbon)
26 and 27 May 2012 – Concert and Masterclass in Auditório Ramo Grande (Praia da Vitória – Terceira – Azores)
November 2012 – Concerto in Autumn Festival (Aveiro University)

RUBEN BETTENCOURT in 7 interviews to TV and Press, New Photo Session, Recording to Main TV Station in Portugal (RTP Açores) and Concerts!
After the 5 prizes in international contests achieved by Ruben Bettencourt in the year of 2011, the young guitarist restarts the new season of 2012 with interviews, appearances in Media and Press, and concerts in the the end of January!

Ruben Bettencourt was targeted for interviews while in Azores for Concerts. The young Azorean has been frequently invited to tell his life story and mainly his career and and ambitions in the future in the art of the instrument.

You can see them through the various links available:

Television:
Ruben Bettencourt in “5 minutos de Cultura” (RTP Azores)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MoAd_UZ0C0

Ruben Bettencourt in “Telejornal “ (RTP Azores)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0XCrhsjTPM

Ruben Bettencourt in “Festa de Natal” RTP Azores)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CKH4FRxIyQ

Ruben Bettencourt in “Bom dia” (RTP Açores)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4j6aiqhagg

Ruben Bettencourt in “Bordello das Artes” (Estudio9)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leeJ31tkpR0

Press:
December 15th, 2011 – “Ruben Bettencourt awarded in Spain” – “União” Newspaper
http://pt.scribd.com/doc/78674236/Uniao-15-12-2011-Entrevista-a-Ruben-Bettencourt

December 15th, 2011– “Dedilhar um Sonho” – Interview with Ruben Bettencourt – “ Diário Insular (DI XL)” Newspaper
http://pt.scribd.com/doc/78674233/Di-XL-15-01-2012-Entrevista-a-Ruben-Bettencourt

Ruben Bettencourt presents a new Photographic Portfolio.
You can see this session through the following link:
http://www.rubenbettencourt.com/apps/photos/
(Album “Photo Session With Ruben Tavares 1” e “Photo Session With Ruben Tavares 2”)

Ruben Bettencourt will be featured next Friday, 20th of January, 2012 at 9:45 p.m. Ruben Bettencourt´s concert in the Micaelense Theater in the Island of São Miguel (Azores), on the 16th of December, 2011, will be airing, during the schedule for RTP Azores.
http://tv2.rtp.pt/programas-rtp/index.php?p_id=28585&e_id=&c_id=3&dif=tv&hora=21:45&dia=20-01-2012

Ruben Bettencourt will be in concert January 21st at Oporto´s Literary Club, initiating his 2012 Season Tour, The young guitarist presents pieces of Vassiliev, Turina, Rodrigo and Ginastera. A programme mixed with virtuism and romanticism. Don´t miss the opportunity to see a concert of excellence in the city of Oporto.

BIOGRAPHY
For many Music critics and lovers, Ruben Bettencourt is considered to be one of the best Portuguese classic guitarists of his generation. His concerts stand out by his total commitment to Music and for the emotions he provides his public.
More than a guitarist, he strives for the elegance and spontaneity that Music provides him.
He was born in Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal.
He started his musical studies at the age of 6 with the Azorean teacher Victor Castro, initially in private lessons, continuing his studies in Regional Conservatory of Angra do Heroísmo (Conservatório Regional de Angra do Heroísmo), where he obtained 19 (in an evaluation scale of 0-20) the area of Classical Guitar.
Besides the various recitals through this school he attended, he presented himself in public in Portugal (Azores Island and the Continent), Italy, Germany, Poland, Spain, Holand, Servia and Croatia.
Among the events of the area in which he is present, nationally and internationally, he was invited to give solo concerts and master classes in various national festivals such as; “Elogio da Guitarra” (Guarda – 2009) and “Ciclo da Bairrada 09” (2009 – Oliveira do Bairro), “Temporada de Música”(Azores, 2010), “Festival de Música de Coimbra 2010” (Coimbra 2010), Guitarmania 2011 (Almada – Lisbon), TEDxAveiro (Aveiro 2011), along with others.
He has presented himself in concert in acknowledged rooms such as: Aveiro Theatre (Teatro Aveirense), The National Conservatory (Conservatório Nacional), The National Library (Biblioteca Nacional), Palácio Foz (The Foz Palace) (with recording for Rádio Difusão Portuguesa – Antena 2), The Joanina Library – Universiy of Coimbra (Biblioteca Joanina), among others.
Between 2006 and 2009, he finishes his “Licentiate Degree in Music” in the University of Aveiro, guided by Dr. Paulo Vaz de Carvalho and Pedro Rodrigues, in the area of Classical Guitar, where he obtained 19 (in an evaluation scale of 0-20).
In the area of Chamber Music he was guided by Dr. Chagas Rosa and Dra. Helena Marinho.

Between 2009-2011 , he finishes his “Master in Music” in the prestigious Conservatory of Maastricht (Netherlands), guided by the world-known professor, Carlo Marchione, where he obtained 9 (in an evaluation scale 0-10) and in 2011 also guided by Joaquin Clerch, in Dusseldorf (Germany).
In 2011, he start’s the “PHD in Music” in University of Aveiro, being within the youngest.
He has participated in improvement courses with prestiged guitarrists such as: José Mesquita Lopes, Tomás Camacho, Manuel Tavares, Jorge Cardoso, Roland Dyens, Giulio Tampalini, Pedro Rodrigues, Dejan Ivanovic, Marco Socías, Hubert Käppel, Roberto Aussel, Ignacio Rodes, Marcin Dylla, Christian Haimel, Jeremy Jouve, Łukasz Kuropaczewski, Phillipe Villa, Marek Zielinski, Znibew Dubiella, Marcin Zalewski, Carlo Marchione, Judicäel Perroy, Josef Zsapka, Kevin Gallagher, Michalis Kontaxakis, Aniello Desiderio, Marco Tamayo, Alberto Ponce, Alvaro Pierri, Margarita Escarpa, Matthew Mcallister, Denis Azabagic, Cláudio Marcotulli, Ricardo Barceló, Alexis Mouzourakis, Graham Devine, Laura Young, Joaquin Clerch, Zoran Duckíc, Rafael Aguirre, Tilman Hoppstock, Dimitris Kontronakis, Franz Halász, Yves Storms, with distinguished contemporary Italian composers Giancarlo Facchinetti, Antonio Giacometti and Giovanni Podera and with the pianist Gustav Van Manen.

He was rewarded in competitions such as:
- “I concurso Luso-Espanhol”- Fafe, Portugal (2007 – 1st Prize in ex-aequo);
- “V Concurso Internacional de Guitarra” – Leiria, Portugal (2008 – Honorable Mention);
- “X Concurso Internacional Comarca el Condado” – Spain (2010 – Finalist);
- “Axis Gitaar Concours 2010 – Twents Gitaarfestival” – Holand (2010 – 4th Place);
- “ VII Concurso Internacional de Guitarra – III Festival Internacional de Guitarra de Leiria” – Leiria, Portugal (2010 – 1st Prize and prize for best interpreter of Portuguese music);
- ” IV Concurso Norba Caeserina” – Spain (2010 –2nd Prize);
- “XI Concurso Internacional Comarca del Condado” – Spain (2011 – Publics Choice Award and Finalist);
- “World Guitar Competition 2011” – Servia (2011 –2nd Prize);
- “Omis Guitar Festival 2011” – Croatia (2011 – 2nd Prize);
- “Concurso de Guitarra São João da Madeira” – Portugal (2011 – 2nd Prize);
- “Norba Caeserina 2011 Competition” – Spain (2011 – 3rd Prize)

He was nominated the “Portuguese of the Week” (“Português da Semana”) in the 3rd week of July 2007, in the magazine “Domingo” of the newspaper “Correio da Manhã”.

Through invites, he records and presents himself live on the Portuguese channels RTP and RDP-Antena 2, he is interviewed for various national and international radio stations, as well as the Portuguese press.

“(…) Heavenly notes played by a young guitarist (…)”
Magazine “Domingo” from the Newspaper “Correio da Manhã”, July 2007

“It was (…) as a solo guitarist that his technical skills, artistic sensibility, musical intelligence and professional sense stroke me as it rarely happen in a teacher’s life (…)”
António Chagas Rosa, Composer, October 2009

“(…) The Artist (Ruben Bettencourt), enchanted the audience with the virtuosity of whom does not appear to be 22 years old.
Newspaper “ A Cabra” (pg 9), November 2010

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関連エントリー：

クラシックのギター奏者「Ruben Bettencourt」（ポルトガル） – 美幌音楽人 加藤雅夫
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