MUSIC AND POETRY
Marques d’Arede, Stephen Rockey and Companhia da Chanca
October 10th I Monte de Vez I 9h30 pm
October 11th I Sociedade Filarmónica Penelense, Penela I 5h00 pm
Duration: 45 mins; G.A.
Dispensary, Poetry and Music with no side effects, is a poetry and music recital born out of a dialogue with the world and the memories of an unlikely group of artists. It stems from the intergenerational and multicultural encounter between the actors Marques d’Arede and Catarina Santana and the musicians Stephen Rockey (euphonium) and André Louro (piano), who, in a relaxed manner, present this Dispensary of works to be consumed at the maximum recommended dose.
Dispensary is part of the community-based cultural projects carried out by Companhia da Chanca and reflects a commitment to engaging and integrating a broad and diverse audience, regardless of their tastes and cultural background.
The musical repertoire ranges from popular songs from the Portuguese songbook to more classical pieces arranged for piano and euphonium, presented alongside poems that shape the local cultural imagination, as well as texts by poets waiting to be discovered. The presence and the clear, intuitive way in which the actor Marques d'Arede shares his appreciation and knowledge of Portuguese poetry creates a moment rich in communication and emotion, to which Catarina Santana’s voice responds with energy and expressiveness as she sings poetry with Iberian roots.
Marques d’Arede began his career in theatre in 1973 with a production by Fernanda Lapa. He attended the Conservatory and the Actors Training Course at the Comuna-Teatro de Pesquisa. He has a vast body of work in theatre, cinema and television, having worked, among many others, with Rogério de Carvalho, António Feio, Vladislav Pazi, Diogo Infante, Luís Miguel Cintra, Joaquim Benite, Ricardo Neves-Neves, Manoel de Oliveira, Fonseca e Costa, João Mário Grilo and Fernando Vendrell. (Photo Joanna Correia)
Stephen Rockey (MA(Merit),BA(Hons), ALCM, LLCM(TD) - CONDUCTOR – COMPOSER – ARRANGER)
Stephen Rockey was born in Stoke on Trent in April 1960. He started to play the trombone at the age of 13 with a local brass band, and in 1976, he became a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain (NYO) until 1978.
In 1980 and for eighteen years he was the Principal trombone player and soloist for the Royal Air Force in various bands and travelled all over the world. He has arrangements and compositions recorded on EMI, Bandleader and BBC labels, broadcasts on BBC Radio and TV, and has in his time arranged and composed for all kinds of ensembles, Brass, Military, Orchestral, Choral and Jazz.
In 1996, he started to study conducting via the RAF and in 1998, he was the second person to be given the roll of Staff Arranger for the Royal Air Force, as well as being the Chief Librarian at the same time.
He completed his BA in music in 2008 at the University of Bristol gaining a first class honours, specializing in performance and composition, he won the Britten Award for his performance of Berio's 'Sequenza V' and Francaix's 'Trombone concerto,' for trombone and ten winds.
He has a Masters degree in Composition, and is a PhD candidate in musical composition. He worked for the Royal Guard of Oman from 2013 to 2021. He moved to Portugal shortly after and became a resident in 2022 living near Penela, Coimbra. In 2023 he took the position of Maestro of the Band of the Sociedade Filarmónica Penelense.
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