Marimbakøller Innovative Percussion PC1, Pedro Carneiro, Heavy Extra Soft Bass Marimba

Marimbakøller Innovative Percussion PC1, Pedro Carneiro, Heavy Extra Soft Bass Marimba

Pedro Carneiro Series
The Pedro Carneiro series marimba mallets are built with heavy synthetic cores specific to each model and its intended sound. Wrapped with 100% un-dyed natural wool, each mallet provides enhanced fundamental tone across all registers of the marimba. Models 1 through 4 are built on premium oversized rattan handles, while the ground breaking Tri-tone mallet is built with ramin handles for less vibration. Additionally, the PC-TT Tri-tone mallet features three unique playing zones which allows the player to produce a variety of colors while using one implement.

Features:
- 100% undyed natural wool
- PC1-PC4 built on premium oversized rattan handles
- PC-TT built on ramin hanlde

PC1: Heavy/Extra Soft/Bass - Producing warm sonority; works extremely well in lowest two octaves
PC2: Heavy/Soft/Bass - Slightly more focused than the PC1; works well in first lower half of marimba
PC3: General/Medium Soft - Covers all registers of instrument with tremendous warmth and clarity
PC4: Medium - A versatile mallet that is slightly brighter than PC3; able to project across large ensembles
PC-TT: Tri-tone - Covers entire range of marimba; feature three unique playing zones

Pedro Carneiro
www.pedrocarneiro.com
www.ocp.org.pt

(...) It is a masterly touch to round off Carneiro's dazzling performance. Guardian (England)
(...) a formidable reading of these major works
(...) extremely precious for its quality of interpretation. Le Monde (France)

Marimba player Pedro Carneiro, who performed as a soloist (...) appeared to be a superman from another galaxy. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany)

Pedro Carneiro was born in the southern bank of Lisbon in 1975. The son of the principal trumpeter of the Radio Symphony Orchestra and an amateur actress, Pedro was brought up around concerts, rehearsals and performances. He started learning piano as a small child, but quickly switched to cello and trumpet. As a hyperactive child he was seduced by percussion: the wealth of sounds, timbres, instruments and sonic invention - and has always been immersed in music, also composing and conducting. Carneiro entered the percussion class at the National Conservatoire in Lisbon when he was 12. He moved to London on a scholarship from the Gulbenkian Foundation and studied percussion with David Corkhill and conducting with Alan Hazeldine, at the Guidhall School of Music and Drama. Later on, he studied conducting with Emilio Pomàrico at the Scuola Civica in Milan.

Today, Pedro Carneiro is acclaimed internationally as one of the world's foremost solo classical percussionists and increasingly active as a conductor and composer. Pedro's virtuosity, passion, explosive energy and emotional spontaneity have inspired several of today's leading composers to write works specially for him. He has performed the world première of over 100 new works and collaborates regularly with a wide range of acclaimed musicians. An enthusiastic chamber musician, Carneiro has commissioned, performed and recorded over a dozen new quintets for marimba and string quartet, in the company of the Tokyo, Arditti, Shanghai, Latinoamericano, New Zealand and Chilingirian string quartets.

He performs and records with many orchestras around the globe, such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Helsinki Philharmonic, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Leipzig Radio Symphony, English Chamber Orchestra, São Paulo State Symphony, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, to name a few. He also appears regularly as a soloist/director, conducting from the marimba keyboard.

Deeply committed to the musical development of his home country and fostering the work of fellow young musicians, he co-founded the Portuguese Chamber Orchestra in 2007, which he serves as artistic director and chief conductor. In a very short period of time, the Portuguese Chamber Orchestra - an exciting group of some of the nations top young professional musicians - has become the Orchestra in Residence at the Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon), performing their own concert series to sell-out audiences as well as touring nationally and internationally to impressive critical acclaim.

Pedro is also a passionate inventor: he has created many new accessories which are now entering the repertoire and being used by percussionists around the world; and is a keen improviser, performing in many experimental performances, often using live electronics and cutting-edge technology.

His extensive discography includes several prize-winning recordings and features solo recitals, chamber music and concerti on the ECM, Zig-Zag Territoires, Rattle, Stradivarius and other labels.

Pedro Carneiro lives in Lisbon with his wife Teresa Simas (dancer, choreographer and arts manager) and their two gorgeous little daughters: Carolina and Inês.