Camerata Romeu and Brazilian violinist unite talents in La Habana

July 21, 2018

Camerata Romeu and Brazilian Violinist Unite Talents in Havana

The Cuban all-female musical ensemble Camerata Romeu will offer today a concert of Brazilian popular music accompanied by the violinist and composer from that country Ricardo Herz.

According to the director of the chamber orchestra, Zenaida Romeu, the recital will take place at its usual venue, the minor basilica of the convent of San Francisco de Asís, located in Old Havana.

According to Romeu, creator of that group, Herz's music is considered vital, energetic and revolutionary with respect to the right-hand technique of the violinists, whose ways of conceiving Afro-Brazilian rhythms achieve an authentic flavor inherited from the strumming of the typical guitars of the South American giant.

His compositions and the way of performing them constitute an extensive arsenal of lyricism that with absolute novelty the artist takes advantage of to make the string orchestra sound very Brazilian, she expressed.

There are no previous precedents of this technical work, Romeu added.

Brazilian musician Herz graduated in the specialty of violin in his country and pursued higher studies in France and at Berkeley University, the United States.