POCKET CONCERT "O PIANINHO", WITH PABLO LAPIDUSAS
On Saturday, June 20th, at 10:15 AM, Dante & C.ª, located at Rua Luís Augusto Palmeirim, 12C, in Alvalade (Lisbon), opens its doors to a unique and unforgettable event: the European premiere of Concerto de Bolso — O Pianinho, conceived and led by the versatile and brilliant pianist and composer Pablo Lapidusas, and already presented with great success in schools and community spaces in Brazil.
This workshop-concert, part of the Poesia da Mangiare series, is aimed at children up to 10 years old, as well as the adults accompanying them on this experience. It proposes a direct, sensitive, and true encounter between children and classical music in its most complete form, using a central and unexpected element—the Toy Piano, a toy piano that acts as a bridge (sometimes dizzying) between imagination and high artistic performance—and compositions by Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Villa-Lobos, Tchaikovsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov. In a world saturated with the superfluous, Pablo offers a return to the essential: the present moment and the transformative power of listening. He himself experienced this superpower: at 11, when the blended sounds of multiple instruments led him—like a magnet—into the Conservatório de Poços de Caldas (in Minas Gerais), but also, years later, when a solo concert in the same city by pianist and composer Cesar Camargo Mariano showed him the way, as clear as a line etched into the palm of his hand.
Concerto de Bolso — O Pianinho is a musical experience that sparks curiosity, invites play, and encourages discovery: children will discover how they can become "inventors" of new melodies and that classical music is not distant or difficult, but can be reached by their small hands. As its baptismal name suggests, this is an artistic object that fits in the hand and in the heart.
The number of places is limited and each child must be accompanied by an adult. Please reserve by emailing unpoditalia@danteecompanhia.pt, indicating the name and age of the child(ren) and the name of the accompanying adult, as this will help us prepare the room. We will send booking confirmation and payment details by the following day.
We have special prices for reservations made until June 2nd:
Individual: €13.5 (adult or child) — after: → €15
Double: €27 (1 adult + 1 child) — after: → €30
Triple: €37.5 (1 adult + 2 children or 2 adults + 1 child) — after: → €42
Quadruple: €50 (2 adults + 2 children or 1 adult + 3 children) — after: → €55
« (…) To teach is to create listening. To play is to expand presence. To collaborate is to infiltrate language. And what is built here is not a career. It is a field. A field where: music does not intimidate technique, does not shy away from depth, and does not exclude. A field where the piano is not the past. It is possibility. Between the erudite and the impulse, between calculation and the body, between what has already been said and what still trembles — there is a space. It is there that everything begins. Anew.»
Excerpt from MANIFESTO (TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN — FOR REFLECTION), by SIMONE KONTRALUZ and RODOLFO SOARES.
© Photographs by Simone Kontraluz
PABLO LAPIDUSAS: A GLOBAL MUSICAL JOURNEY
Argentine-Brazilian pianist based in Portugal, Pablo Lapidusas holds a bachelor's degree in Music from Unicamp and a master's degree in Performance and Education from the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (ESML). With eight albums released, he blends diverse influences in dazzling solo performances, uniquely mixing influences, in addition to performing with his trio and international orchestras presenting chamber versions of his compositions.
He has collaborated with various artists, such as: Hermeto Pascoal, Edu Lobo, Marcelo D2, Jaques Morelenbaum, I Musici di Montreal, Cesar Camargo Mariano, Hamilton de Holanda, Marcus Wyatt, Carlos Malta, Eugene Friesen, Wanda Sá, Quarteto em Cy, Nelson Faria, Maria João, Rem Urasin, and Amir Milstein, in recordings and performances in over 40 countries. Winner of the 2021 Music Professionals Award for the soundtrack of "Herdeiros de Saramago", Lapidusas transcends genres while teaching classes and workshops at institutions around the world: in Israel (Internal Compass), in the USA (University of Nebraska Omaha), in Portugal (Bemposta), in Brazil (Unicamp, Souza Lima, Conservatório Santa Cecília, Conservatório Municipal de Poços de Caldas), and in India (Swarnabhoomi Academy of Music). He is currently recording his ninth album, in addition to projects with texts by Ai Weiwei and the show "O Pianinho".