Joy and Energy in Unique Music of the Latin American Baroque

Based on historical research, the 1986 film, The Mission, contrasts utopian lives of indigenous Indian villages with the forced eviction from South America in 1767 of the Jesuit Order. Through musical research and conducting concerts (invited by UNESCO) in the three most important Chiquitos missions, Graham Griffiths found that historical truth is more remarkable than portrayed in the film.

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THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER

Dr Graham Griffiths

Lecturer, conductor, pianist, composer. Music Research Fellow (City, University of London). DPhil., Musicology (Christ Church, Oxford, 2008), PGCE (Cambridge), BMusHons (Edinburgh).

Musical Director Grupo Novo Horizonte de Sao Paulo (featured on BBCR3); lectures, concerts, and recordings (UK, Denmark, Brazil, Russia); Guest of The British Council; University lecturing (UK) at Bath, Bristol, Canterbury (Christchurch), City (London), Oxford.

Author: Stravinsky’s Piano: Genesis of a Musical Language (Cambridge, 2013/2015; ‘Kaschperowa, Leokadiya’ in Instrumentalistinnen-Lexikon-online (Bremen: Sophie Drinker Institut, 2018):- Stravinsky in Context (CUP, 2021): - Leokadiya Kashperova: Biography, ‘Memoirs’ & ‘Recollections of Anton Rubinstein’ (CUP, 2023)

Editor: Stravinsky in Context (Cambridge, 2020); Contributor to The Stravinsky Encyclopedia (Cambridge, forthcoming); Strawinsky Abécédaire (ed. Marie Strawinsky) (Geneva: Editions Slatkine, 2018).

Recordings: Latin American Sacred Music of the 18th and 19th centuries; Brazilian contemporary music; the piano music of L.A.Kashperova.

Composer, film: Voyage of the Vikings: Hurricane! Hurry! (dir. Camille Bontemps: Edwards Films, 2018).

Guest appearances - BBC Radio 3’s Composer of the Week (December 2022: BBCSounds ‘Kashperova Composer of the Week’) and at ‘St Petersburg International Conservatoires Festival’ performing lost works by Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940) re-discovered by Griffiths. This research featured in the BBCRadio3/AHRC celebration Five Forgotten Female Composers on International Women’s Day (8 March 2018). Griffiths’s work has been featured by public service broadcasters in several countries.

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