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  • 13 January 2022

    Conductor Simone Menezes joins the roster at Askonas Holt

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Press

  • 'Amazônia

    Recording
    Sep 2023

    • ...a vivid and exuberant evocation of the Amazon filled with moments of intense beauty.

  • Seeking the Transcendental: Simone Menezes's " Metanoia" (documentary)

    Villa Medici, Rome
    Jun 2022

    • Simone Menezes is no ordinary musician; Cartier is no ordinary company. Together, they have created magic in the form of, Metanoia, the 72-minute documentary film element of their joint project...

  • Metanoia

    recording
    Mar 2022

    • Simone Menezes has elected to re-record Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances just a year after her debut album Accents (reviewed April 2021), and the results are even more beguiling. She takes more time over the magical opening (Russian pedal-pointing at its most skin-rippling), allowing her gifted group of players more room to shape Borodin’s indelible melodic/harmonic inspiration, while the recording sets the ensemble within a radiantly glowing acoustic.

  • The Soul of the Composer: Simone Menezes’ Metanoia Project

    recording
    Feb 2022

    • [Simone Menezes] questions music: What is eternal? What stays? Who can explain Bach’s continuing importance? What do we learn from history and how do we move forward with that knowledge? In looking at the concept of metanoia, [Simone] begins to answer these questions. The restrictions on everyone’s life from COVID gave everyone an opportunity to reflect and think and Menezes used the time to create a very interesting conceptual project that benefits everyone. When you find the soul of the composer, you find something deeper than music, you find subtle lines of connectivity that carry your thoughts beyond the music on the page.

  • The Cultural Frontline

    BBC Sounds
    Nov 2021

    • Sebastiao Salgado and Simone Menezes join The Cultural Frontline to describe the 'Amazônia' project and climate change in the rainforest.

  • Amazônia

    The Barbican, London
    Oct 2021

    • More music with Amazonian connections [...] received typically vivid, tight performances from Menezes and the Britten Sinfonia.

  • interview - Interlude Magazine

    Oct 2021

    • Art has to speak to the heart bypassing the brain’s desire to add politics into the mix. This is part of her dream: to create meaningful projects that can change the world.

  • Feature article

    International Arts Manager
    Sep 2021

    • Brazilian-Italian conductor Simone Menezes is making a name for herself as something of a 21st Century visionary musician, known for her creativity and innovations in combining the classical and contemporary repertoires

      • International Arts Manger
      • 02 September 2021