Karin Fernandes

The pianist Karin Fernandes was born in São Paulo, Brazil, and participated in specialization courses in Portugal with Maria João Pires, in France with pianist Bernard Flavigny, and in England as a full scholar at the Third Oxford International Piano Festival/2001, where she had masterclasses with Menahem Pressler, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Oxana Yablonskaya, Maria Curcio, and Cristina Ortiz. In Brazil, Karin was a student of Lina Pires de Campos, expanding her musical knowledge in her home country.

As a soloist, she has performed with the Amazonas Philharmonic Orchestra, Campinas Symphony Orchestra, OSUSP, OSESP, Camerata OSESP, Ensemble Cairn (France), Sinfonia Cultura, São Paulo State Symphonic Band, São Pedro Theater Orchestra, Sergipe Symphony Orchestra, and National Symphony Orchestra (Paraguay), among others. She is also an active recitalist, with frequent performances in Europe (England, France, Germany, and Portugal) and South America (Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay). Recently, she completed her third European tour, with recitals in Berlin and Paris.

The pianist has won first place in 21 piano competitions in Brazil and achieved first place in the important and highly competitive 10th Eldorado Music Prize in 1999. In 2015, her album “Cria – Nova Música Brasileira para Piano, Vol. I” received the Concerto Award for Best CD of the Year in Brazil. The following year, her album “Seresta, Choro e Homenagem a Fructuoso Vianna,” featuring piano and orchestra pieces by Camargo Guarnieri, was a finalist in the Best Classical Album category at the prestigious 27th Brazilian Music Award, competing with two other CDs, both from OSESP. In April 2017, the pianist was recognized as the Best Classical Instrumentalist at the Professionals of Music Award. In 2019, the third album of her trio, titled “Trio Puelli,” which presents the complete recording of Radamés Gnatalli’s Piano Trios, was chosen as the CD of the Year by the Concerto Award.

ALBUMS

Synesthetic Nature: No. 1 for Clarinet and Cello | No. 2 for String Quartet

An anthology of previously unreleased original works that seek to translate the interrelationship between the four elements, air, water, fire and earth, into music.

Origins

From a distinctive interpretive perspective, the composer alternates between original works and arrangements of traditional classical repertoire for two guitars.

The Brazilian Four Seasons

In this album, the composer and conductor presents a work that associates each season of the year with a geographic region of Brazil, performed by the La Salle Soloists Orchestra and violinist Cármelo de los Santos.

Duoessence

Devoted to the repertoire for violin and viola, the duo's second album brings together works by classical and contemporary composers, proposing a dialogue between tradition and the present.

Latin American Suite No. 1 for String Quintet

Rooted in Latin American rhythms and melodies, the composer presents a six-movement suite, alongside three additional pieces inspired by the work of Stravinsky.

Valsas de Esquina

In newly commissioned arrangements developed by the duo, the violinist and pianist present Francisco Mignone's 12 Valsas de Esquina.In newly commissioned arrangements developed by the duo, the violinist and pianist present Francisco Mignone's 12 Valsas de Esquina.

Opus 5 – Endless Horizon for Solo Piano

On their fifth album, the collective of young composers presents eight new pieces for solo piano, under the artistic direction of João Marcondes.

Nømad

With a career marked by movement in musical language, the pianist brings together original, unreleased compositions, inspired by his travels in foreign lands.

She, Invisible Vol. 1

In this first volume of a series dedicated to German female composers of the 18th and 19th centuries, the Brazilian pianist brings together rare works in previously unreleased recordings.