"The Gentleness of Elephants" Music and Poetry

António Pedro Dinis - composer, pianist/organist, and poet - invites you on a musical-poetic journey through the South. On the occasion of the release of his first poetry collection "The Gentleness of Elephants" and new piano pieces and songs, he will be performing in Dürnstein. Joining him will be Conny Winiwarter, Prima la Musica award winner and moderator, who will take on the solo parts of duo pieces.

The program features, on one hand, poems and new creations from Portuguese classics, particularly the national poet Luís Vaz de Camões, whose 500th birthday is being celebrated. Famous for his epic "The Lusiads," Camões was also a master of the sonnet and popular poetry. On the other hand, new works will be performed, including a tango, waltz, Slavic-inspired melodies, ballads, and, in duo, his homage to the Baroque.

Biographical Sketch
Dr. António Pedro Dinis, a long-time university lecturer both domestically and internationally, is a composer, poet, and choir director of the LiederTafel Langenlois. As a producer for concert harpsichordist Lydia Maria Blank, he has published the great masters of Baroque keyboard music (including Göttweig Partitas, Bach's Art of Fugue, Frescobaldi, Byrd, Folias - The Spanish Masters of the Siglo de Oro).

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