Bruno Procopio (born 1976,
Brazil
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) is a Brazilian
harpsichord
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player based in Paris.
History
Following early musical studies with Marcelo Fagerlande and Pedro Personne in
Rio de Janeiro
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, Procopio moved to France in 1993. He studied harpsichord at the
Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with
Christophe Rousset
Christophe Rousset (; born 12 April 1961) is a French harpsichordist and conducting, conductor, who specializes in the performance of Baroque music on Authentic performance, period instruments. He is also a musicologist, particularly of opera and ...
and
chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of Musical instrument, instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a Great chamber, palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music ...
with Blandine Ranou and Kenneth Weiss, earning two First Prizes (Premier Prix) in harpsichord performance and
continuo playing. After his formal studies, Procopio became one of the few students of
Pierre Hantaï.
Procopio's first recording, of
JS Bach's
Partitas for keyboard numbers 1, 3, and 4, was chosen as one of the five best
Baroque
The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...
music disks of the year by Fanfare magazine in 2004, in addition to a rating of five out of five by the distinguished French magazine Diapason.
In 2007, Procopio founded the
record label
"Big Three" music labels
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Paraty Productions,
on which he has released two additional albums of JS Bach: Partitas numbers 2, 5, and 6, completing the cycle, and the Sonatas for
viola da gamba
The viola da gamba (), or viol, or informally gamba, is a bowed and fretted string instrument that is played (i.e. "on the leg"). It is distinct from the later violin family, violin, or ; and it is any one of the earlier viol family of bow (m ...
and keyboard. The latter, which also includes Bach's
Italian Concerto, was recently awarded a 'Choc' prize from the magazine ''
Le Monde de la musique
''Le Monde de la musique'' was a French monthly musical magazine published from 1978 to 2009 with a circulation of 20,000 copies in 2008.
It was founded in 1978 by ''Le Monde'' and ''Télérama'' at the initiative of Jean-Michel Croissandeau, in c ...
''.
References
External links
Bruno Procopio's official websiteParaty (record label founded by Bruno Procopio)
Video interviews on Classique NewsProcopio's first CD on the Intégral Music website
1976 births
Living people
Brazilian emigrants to France
French harpsichordists
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