In September 2022, William Goodchild headed out to Portugal to work with the seventy musicians of the Orquestra de Jazz de Espinho and Orquestra Clássica de Espinho.
Five days of rehearsals led to two capacity performances at the stunning Auditório de Espinho Academia, Portugal.
The centrepiece of each concert was composer/ arranger Guy Barker’s Miles Davis Symphónico: Kind of Blue - an arrangement for big band and symphony orchestra of Miles Davis’s seminal album. Also in the programme was William’s own jazz suite, More Four, and two further arrangements by Guy Barker: Impulse Medley featuring tunes by John Coltrane/ Olivier Nelson/ McCoy Tyner and Charles Mingus; and Miles’s Nefertiti.
William Goodchild: “I shall never forget the intensity and commitment of the performances on both nights. This is how it is done. Thank you for inviting me to work with you.”
OCE - Orquestra Clássica de Espinho
6a Feira dia 30 de Setembro Sábado dia 1 de Outubro
Auditório de Espinho
William Goodchild – Direção Musical
Programa: Kind Of Blue – Miles Davis/Bill Evans; Arr e Orch: Guy Barker So what/All Blues/Blue in Green/Freddie Freeloader/Flamenco Sketches Nefertiti – Wayne Shorter , arr Guy Barker Impulse Medley – John Coltrane/ Olivier Nelson/McCoy Tyner/Charles Mingus; Orch: Guy Barker
More Four – William Goodchild
Violinos I
Catarina Resende
Fabiana Fernandes
Raquel Santos
Valéria Gomez
Gonçalo Melo
Matilde Margalho
Margarida Campos
Pedro Carvalho
Francisca Azevedo
Violinos II
Ana Rita Santos
Joana Machado
Vitor Damião
Carolina Coelho
Francisco Chicória
António Ramos
Inês Marques Inês Cunha
Guilherme Ferreira
Violas
Trevor Mctait
Bárbara Ferreira
Rita Barreto
Rita Mendes
Rita Carreiras
João Santos
Violoncelos
Irene Alvar
Ana Sofia Leão
Diogo Santos
Laura Silva Joana Santos
Alice Martins
Contrabaixos
Nelson Fernandes
Joana Vaz Bárbara
Gaspar Pedro Barbosa
Flautas
Ana Maria
Leonardo Coelho
Luísa Gil
Oboés
Pedro Ferreira
Ema Silva
Clarinetes
Francisca Guedes
Ana Andrade
Gabriela Pinto
Fagote
Bruna Carvalho
Maria João Ferreira
Saxofone Rafael Gomes
Raquel Lima
Pedro Matos
Afonso Clemêncio
Bernal Muíños
Trompas Mariana Santos
Diogo Pinto Diogo Bernardino
Francisco Pereira
Paulo Migueis
Trompetes Luís Cunha Hugo Silva Vasco Silva Rodrigo Cunha
Trombones
Afonso Silva
Ana Santos
Rui Bandeira
Tuba Romeu Medeiros
Tímpanos
Manuel Dias
Pedro Simões
Percussão
Alexandre Andrade
Gonçalo Brandão
Hugo Santos
Ricardo Silva
Vibrafone Diogo Azevedo
João Rosa
Harpa
Maria Sá Silva
Maria Eduarda
Guitarra
AP Neves
Baixo
Diogo Dinis
Piano
José Diogo
Bateria
João Martins