Son and grandson of directors of the Municipal Theater of São Paulo, Fabio Mechetti would hardly follow another path than that of music. The 65-year-old conductor has lived in the United States of America for 40 years, it was there where he developed most of his career, directing various orchestras around the world, until in 2008 he received an invitation that he could not refuse: to create an orchestra in the state of Minas Gerais. “It was a unique opportunity to build a project from scratch in a professional way and very committed to quality”, he begins by explaining to the Observer.
The first difficulty? Find musicians. “I started with seven, but seven don’t make an orchestra, and it was necessary to hold auditions in various parts of the world, from Europe to the United States, to come up with a group. The next step was to unite them in a unique language and thought, each one had a different school and musical tradition, in the first years the work was to unify this artistic theme that is so important.”
Currently, the Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra is financed by public and private investments, and is considered one of the most successful cultural institutions in Brazil. in 2015 has its own showroom, in Belo Horizonte, regularly tours nationally and internationally and already has several awards on his resume. The Minas Gerais JK Culture and Development Trophy (2016), the CONCERTO Grand Prize (2015) or the Best Classical Musical Group of the Association of Art Critics of São Paulo, APCA (2010) are just a few examples.
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Source: Observadora
