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Amanda Māra Rizzotto, soprano
Dr. Kris Rizzotto, organ
Recorded live in concert at the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Denver, CO.
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Amanda Māra Rizzotto is pursuing Bachelor’s degrees in Music Performance at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and in Speech-Language Pathology at Universidade Veiga de Almeida since 2013. She started singing when she was 6 years old at her school’s choir. At the age of 8 she joined the UFRJ Children's Choir, where she remained as a soloist until the age of 17. During this period the choir performed at the Municipal Theater and the most important cultural spaces and venues of of Rio de Janeiro. Productions included La Bohème (Puccini), Carmen (Bizet), Carmina Burana (Carl Off), Magdalena (Villa Lobos), among other works of the greatest relevance in the symphonic repertoire. In 2010, she was a soloist at the UFRJ Choir concert commemorating the 200th Anniversary of the Independence of Argentina, in Buenos Aires.
Amanda is under the instruction of the soprano Leila Guimarães since 2012. She performs regularly in the most important churches and venues in Rio de Janeiro, on solo recitals, Masses and weddings. Among recent performances was a concert with Cristiano Rizzotto in the Basilica Nossa Senhora Auxiliadora in Niterói, accompanied by the largest pipe organ in South America, and CD recordings, including a special participation as singer in Dreams Rising with the London-based British harpist Zanna Evans. Samples of their recent recordings can be heard at www.zannaevans.com/my-music.
Amanda is currently a Harp Performance major at UFRJ. Her first harp instructor was Elza Marins when she was eleven years old. She is currently under the orientation of the harpist Wanda Eichbauer at UFRJ. As a harpist she went on a concert tour with the Camerata Natalina (directed by the harpists Cristina Braga e Wanda Eichbauer) in December of 2014.
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Having performed extensively in North America, Europe and South America, Kris Rizzotto is an active international recitalist who frequently premières and performs the works of contemporary composers. She has actively promoted and supported the ongoing development of new music for the organ. Composers such as Carson Cooman, Composer in Residence at Harvard University, Aivars Kalējs (Latvia), and Antoine Giovannini, Titular Organist at L’église Saint Vincent de Nay (France), have dedicated pieces to her.
Kris is currently pursuing her doctoral studies at The American Organ Institute at the University of Oklahoma, under Dr. John Schwandt, and is the Music Director and Organist at the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church in Duncan, OK.
She became a published composer after his Toccata was released by Wayne Leupold Editions in March 2014.
Rizzotto was previously the organist at Rio de Janeiro’s Benedictine Abbey, owner of one of the oldest organs in South America and where the Carioca monks have kept the tradition of the chants and liturgy alive since the 16th century.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in piano performance from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Magna cum Laude, 2010), and a Master’s degree in Sacred Music from East Carolina University (2013).
Kris' current goals are to continue to develop her skills as a church and concert musician in the United States; to use the knowledge obtained to cooperate with the resurrection and development of the organ culture in Brazil; to represent and bring awareness to Latvia and Brazil through her work abroad; to establish a stronger dialogue between the organ sceneries and professional organists of Brazil and the United States of America; and contribute to the American musical and liturgical scenery.
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Lili Boulanger (1893 – 1993) – Pie Jesu
Pie Jesu Domine,
Dona eis requiem.
Pie Jesu Domine,
Dona eis requiem sempiternam.
Pious Lord Jesus,
Give them rest.
Pious Lord Jesus,
Give them everlasting rest.
