Iara Fricke Matte

Iara Fricke Matte is a Brazilian conductor specialized in orchestral, choral, and choral-symphonic works, with a strong commitment to historically informed performance. Her conducting is noted for its stylistic clarity and rhetorical sensitivity with a repertoire that ranges from Renaissance polyphony to major Romantic and twentieth-century works. Her interests include baroque European and Latin American works, alongside recently rediscovered and unpublished repertoire.

Ms. Fricke Matte is founder and Artistic Director of the baroque orchestra and chorus Concentus Musicus de Belo Horizonte, and has established a long-standing collaboration with the Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra. This collaboration has offered many concerts of major choral-symphonic works at the Sala Minas Gerais, and the recording of the CD Pedro I of Brazil: Te Deum • Credo, released in 2024 to inernational critical acclaim by the classical label Naxos.

Ms. Fricke Matte musical interests extend beyond conducting; as Artistic Director of the UFMG Early Music Week in Belo Horizonte and historic Minas Gerais cities, she helped consolidate this international music festival as an important Latin-American event for artistic exchange and historically informed practice. She has also been Artistic Director of the Fermata Concert Series, an event devoted to choral-symphonic repertoire.

Ms. Fricke Matte is Professor of Conducting at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). She holds Doctorate and Master's degree in Conducting from Indiana University Bloomington, and University of Minnesota, respectively, and a Bachelor's degree in Conducting from State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). She is a member of the Brazilian Society of Rhetoric (SBR).

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