Rodrigo Camargo
Graduate Assistant for Broadcast Curation & CoordinationRodrigo Camargo is a Brazilian composer currently pursuing his DMA in Composition at the
UMKC Conservatory. He holds a Master’s degree from Louisiana State University and a Bachelor’s degree from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).
He is the recipient of the National Opera Association’s Dominick Argento Fellowship for Opera Composition. His music has been performed in Brazil and the United States, and his catalog includes chamber and vocal music, orchestral works, and opera. Some highlights are the operas "Emily Somebody"(American Prize 2nd place); "A Song For All" (commissioned by No Divide KC and the Lyric Opera of Kansas City); "Lira dos Enganos" (commissioned by FELINI - Festival Lírico de Niterói); "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" (comissioned by KC Sinfonietta); the string quartet “There Where I’m Not” and the “Pocket Concerto for violin and orchestra”. Other highlights are his EPs "5 Poemas de Fernando Pessoa" and "Two Duos", available on streaming platforms. Camargo is also a Composition Teaching Artist with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City.
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On this episode, acclaimed UMKC Conservatory composition professor Chen Yi takes us on a trip to China, plus we'll hear one of the first brass quintets ever written, and one of Schubert’s final musical statements. -
From a beautiful lake in summer, to the smell of petrichor after a rain, Johannes Brahms found endless inspiration in nature. In this episode, UMKC Conservatory faculty will perform two beloved chamber works by Brahms. -
Large ensembles from the UMKC Conservatory perform two masterpieces from two different eras: Tchaikovsky's "Romeo and Juliet," and Zhou Long's "Ancient Echoes." -
What if you had no time to prepare for a Mozart premiere? Well, that was the case in February of 1785. Hear how the UMKC Conservatory orchestra does with much more prep time, plus students and faculty perform masterworks by Bach and Haydn. -
Czech composer Bedřich Smetana was completely deaf when he wrote his first string quartet. On this episode, we'll hear a performance of that work, plus Johannes Brahms' "Tragic Overture," and a dazzling arrangement and performance by Sean Chen of Maurice Ravel's "La valse." -
This week on The UMKC Conservatory Hour, the Conservatory Graduate Fellowship String Quartet performs Beethoven’s glorious first string quartet, and former Conservatory faculty members play piano and orchestral works by J.S. Bach. -
UMKC Conservatory faculty, students and Wind Ensemble perform in this episode featuring Beethoven’s “Spring” Sonata, Klughardt’s Wind Quintet and Holst’s First Suite. -
In this episode, UMKC Conservatory alum Seyoung Park takes us on a pianistic journey through Robert Schumann’s dualities and emotional confessions of forbidden love. Plus Conservatory faculty members Joe Genualdi and Tom Rosenkranz perform very personal music by Ludwig van Beethoven. -
UMKC Conservatory faculty Joseph Genualdi and Sean Chen perform Gabriel Fauré's Violin Sonata No.1, and Alon Goldstein joins the Conservatory Orchestra for a performance of Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No.3. -
The UMKC Graduate Fellowship String Quartet performs Leoš Janáček’s "Kreutzer Sonata," a fierce and emotionally charged work inspired by Leo Tolstoy’s controversial psychological drama. And Igor Stravinsky’s once scandalous "The Rite of Spring," is brought vividly to life by the UMKC Conservatory Orchestra.
