Dr. MARCELO SANCHES
cellist, composer, teacher, researcher
Composer and researcher
Strings Magazine has published one of his articles on how to write your own cello étude, and his paper on Ginastera’s palindromes won the Fiske Writing Award. Future projects include the publication of didactic cello literature. Read about some of his publications below.
One of Dr. Sanches' great passions is to write and arrange music to fit the needs of his students, listen to a couple of his beginning duets here:
Listen to Baião, a solo cello work written in his teenage years. Baião is a Brazilian musical form with a specific rhythm, here used to depict a duel between struggling repentistas (poet-singers who improvise with great artistry) in the desert-region of Caatinga:
Learning to Write Cello Études for Beethoven’s String Quartets
Cello Challenge
By Marcelo Sanches, posted February 2005
Beginning of article
Learning to write cello études for Beethoven's string quartets.IN THE PAST, SUCH CELLISTS as Jean-Louis Duport, Friedrich Grützmacher, and David Popper wrote études that have since helped us surpass a variety of common technical problems. We dread practicing these études, sometimes forgetting that when we play them, it is as if we were studying with one of these stupendous cellists from history - and for free!
Famous performers already share their interpretations with us by editing concertos and sonatas. But wouldn't it be exciting to play a Mstislav Rostropovich or a Yo-Yo Ma étude?
There is a way, however, to participate in great music making while learning the …
The “Presto Mormoroso” from Ginastera’s Cello Sonata in Light of his Other Palindromes: Don Rodrigo and “Interludio Fantástico”
Winner of the Fiske Writing Award
By Marcelo Sanches
Beginning of article
Ginastera’s “Presto mormoroso” from his Sonata for Cello and Piano (1976) is a musical palindrome that invites comparison with two other palindromes he wrote nearly two decades earlier: his opera Don Rodrigo (1961) and the “Interludio fantástico” from his Cantata para América Mágica (1960). Don Rodrigo is built as a kind of narrative palindrome, in which the first scene relates to the last, the second to the penultimate, and so forth. In contrast, the palindromes in the Cantata and the cello sonata are purely musical; they reverse the order of notes from the middle of the composition onwards. I propose that Don Rodrigo’s narrative palindrome can be superimposed onto the “Presto,” dividing this movement into “acts” and “scenes,” and thus shedding light on its ....
Saga Music Publishing Ltd
Harlington, Middlesex, England1994-1995
Song Title Catalogue No.
Three Pieces for Cello and Piano THA 95017THA
Ponteio for Two Cellos 978493THA
Poem for Cello and Piano 978470