Presented: Violinist Moisés Irajá dos Santos

In the category: ORCHESTRA - A LOOK BEHIND THE SCENES I would like to introduce you to our orchestra members and their instruments.

The Brazilian Moisés Irajá dos Santos plays the violin in the orchestra of the Philharmonie Salzburg. Moisés enriches the orchestra not only with his profound experience and his broad musical spectrum but also with his, so typical, life-like nature and his acting talents. Since 2010 he is an orchestra member of the Philharmonie Salzburg.

Versatile

So you can listen to our Moisés playing the violin and you will also experience him in various roles at our family concerts and children's festivals when he is acting and dancing on stage. A multi-talent par excellence.

 

Playing the violin as a passion

His first contact with his instrument of the violin he had already at the age of 10 years. The numerous stages of his music studies began at the Municipal Foundation for Art in Montenegro, a city in the Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil and led him to the master class and postgraduate studies at the University of Rio Grande do Sul the University Mozarteum. He has already completed the Bachelor of Arts and is currently studying for the Master of Arts.

 

orchestral experience

In Brazil, he was the concertmaster of the OSPA youth orchestra, and in Salzburg, he has been a member of the "Salzburg Chamber Soloists" orchestra since 2008. He also has some experience with chamber music, as he has co-founded the "Trio Negro" together with a percussionist and a double bass player, which later became a "Cuarteto Bianco" with a guitarist.

 

Wordrapp with Moisés Irajá dos Santos

What do you think of these terms spontaneously?

Music: "Love, infinity and life"

Salzburg: "Music, Mozart and Untersberg"

 

Of course, the most beautiful thing about an instrument is the sound, but it's also exciting to learn more about the instruments. What is there about the violin all worth knowing?

Here are some facts about the violin:

• The violin or fiddle is a string instrument. Your four strings are struck lightly with a bow stroke with the bow stick or plucked with the fingers.
• The word violin was borrowed from Italian into German in the 17th century and actually means “little viola”. The older German word Geige was originally a joke name for the fiddle and later developed into a generic term for string instruments.
• The resonance body of the violin is made up of the top, back and rim. Spruce, maple and ebony are used.
• The chin rest makes it easier to hold the instrument between chin and shoulder.
• The four strings are made of natural gut, which can be wound with silver or aluminum wire, plastic or steel wire. The strings are in fifths on the notes g - d¹ - and¹ - And² voted.
• The arch is often made of the redwood pernambuco.

There have been two different violin parts in the orchestra since the Baroque period. In a large-scale romantic symphony generally 16 first and 14 second violins. The concert master sits at the very front in the first violin group. We also have 30 violinists in the Philharmonie Salzburg.

 

With musical regards

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Source: Wikipedia