Brahms in Sunny Portugal

I attended the 2nd Atlantic Coast Orchestra conducting masterclass out in Esposende, in northeast Portugal, led by an old friend colleague of mine (we were both conducting students at PRISMA out in Powell River, located on the Sunshine Coast, back in the summer of 2014) named Luis Clemente and the venerable conducting pedagogue, Colin Metters, where he served more than 3 decades as a highly respected professor at the Royal Academy Music of London, U.K. (he also was the mentor of my friend and fellow conductor, Michael Hall, music director of the Prince George Symphony Orchestra, where I play as principal violist). What you see me wearing is as “professional” as my attire got during that trip, for I had to pack light (I actually had to “donate” my dress shoes and quite a number of other personal belongings at the time) as a highly-anticipated pilgrim on the Camino de Santiago, by bicycle. This trip I did in between said masterclass and another one out in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland. More on that later. Anyways, here’s a bit of me feeling the heat in small-town Portugal.

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