Amigos de Música de São Lourenço

End of June, 2010 Dear Amigos, I am writing to tell you that on the 30th of June we come to the official end of yet another membership year in the in the twenty year history of the Amigos de Música. I am sure that many of you will have noticed that our final concert [...]

Dear Amigos, Refreshing is the word that springs to mind when looking back on the visit from the Duo Mecina last month. They are a very bright young pair and gave us two distinctly different evenings both of which were fresh and entertaining. And I must take this chance to thank Loes and Henk Vooijs [...]

Dear Amigos, The last two concerts from our dear friend Piers Lane came like sparkling rays of sunshine to cheer us up during these seemingly endless wet and gloomy days of winter. The magical combination of Piers, Chopin and candlelight ensured that both evenings were completely sold out, yet again making us wish that we [...]

Dear Amigos, Here we are in the middle of January and it has hardly stopped raining for five weeks. It reminds me of the way it used to be in the late 1980s and one wonders when it will come to an end. In the middle of it all, a couple of weeks ago, we [...]

Dear Amigos, I would like to thank all those who were able to attend our AGM at the end of November. As many of you will know, we are required by law to have three separate committees to run a group like the Amigos; the Assembleia Geral, the Direcção and the Conselho Fiscal. The members [...]

Dear Amigos, There can be no doubt that the both Pedro Ferro and Antonio Cebola gained the most from the Master Classes of Paul Crossley last week. It was a privilege to sit in and listen to them as they eagerly soaked up every suggestion, every morsel of advice that Paul was able to give [...]

From Barry Shaw, President of the Amigos Dear Amigos, Last week Sandro Bartoli pulled all the stops out when he began our new season by playing four quite monolithic fugues. There was nothing dainty or pretty here, his concentration as he built those massive, towering constructions was superb. It might however have been more kind [...]

End of June 2009 Dear Amigos, We have come to the end of another successful year and it is time to look back and remember the many evenings we have enjoyed at São Lourenço during our Amigos year. We began in September with the flautist Marc Gruwels and friends, followed the next month by a [...]