Otávio Manzano Kavakama
Cello
805 Spring St. Apt 2
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
(857) 265-0866
otaviokavakama@gmail.com
otaviomk.com
Repertoire List
Commissions and Premieres
Concertos
- Grace Ann Lee, Concerto for Cello and Chamber Ensemble (2025)
Cello + Instrument
- Sierra Wojtczack, Approaches, for viola caipira and cello (2024)
- Rafael Fajiolli de Oliveira, Cantiga, for viola caipira and cello (2023)
- Shahrzad Talebi, Sipping the Clockmaster’s Tea, for viola caipira and cello (2023)
- Alexandre Guilherme, Sonata a Um Homem Sem Talento, for cello and piano (2021)
- Matthew Lam, In Breezes and Gusts, for flute doubling alto flute and cello (2021)
- Shahrzad Talebi, Maze, for cello and marimba (2020)
- Adam Har-zvi, Sonata for Cello and Piano (2020)
- Roberto Mochetti, Evening Gatha, for two cellos (2019)
- Fúlvio Ferrari, Fantasia, for cello and piano (2019)
Solo Cello
- Alexandre Guilherme, Three Preludes (2021)
- Connor Gibbs, Truth (2020)
- Rafael Fajiolli de Oliveira, Recitativo (2020)
- Rafael Fajiolli de Oliveira, Rondó (2019)
- Alexandre Guilherme, For Otamaka (2019)
Cello + Electronics
- Roberto Carlos Mochetti Jr., l(a, for cello and fixed media (2024)
- Luzilei Aliel, Tesla, for cello and live electronics (2020)
Chamber Music (no conductor)
- Soomin Kim, Piano Quintet No. 1 (2022)
- Katrina Toner, In Nomine, for fl/cl/vln/vla/vlc (2022)
- Luzilei Aliel, Ouija, for strings and electronic sounds (2021)
- Tanner Porter, Footholds, for clarinet, cello, vibraphone, and piano (2021)
- Alexandre Guilherme, Valsa do Jaruá, for string quartet (2021)
- Alexandre Guilherme, Choradeira, for string quartet (2021)
- Alexandre Guilherme, De Outros Carnavais, for string quartet (2021)
- Alexandre Guilherme, Nascimento, for string quartet (2021)
- Adam Har-zvi, Meshugas, for flute, clarinet, cello, and double bass (2020)
- Chace Williams, Halcyon, for cl/vln/vlc/pno (2019)
- Sam Longo-Capobianco, Automaton, for cl/vln/vlc/pno (2019)
- Jon-Luke Martin, Groove, for cl/vln/vlc/pno (2019)
- Emily McPherson, Ebb, for sop/cl/vln/vlc/pno (2019)
- Cheng Ka Hei, Passenger, for fl/cl/vln/vla/vlc (2019)
Chamber Ensemble (with conductor)
- Michelle Lou, To care for the bodies of the dead (2023)
- Kyle Rivera, Black Body Collage (2023)
- Gabrielle Herbst, Rainflower in the Red Rock Cliffs (2023)
- Matīss Čudars, push (2023)
- Isabella Gellis, What Shall We Do (2023)
- Baldwin Giang, Scenes from the Post-Diaspora; I: a neon moon in Ximending (2023)
- Theodore Haber, What it’s Like Up Close (2023)
- Diallo Banks, Chuchotage (2023)
- Angela Ortiz, I’m Trying to See Across (2023)
- Grace Ann Lee, On Track (2023)
- Leigha Amick, The River’s Course (2023)
- Udi Perlman, Accompaniment (2023)
- Paul Mortilla, A short ride in a (short ride in a (…)) (2022)
- Corey Dundee, polytoxicomania (2022)
- Julián Fueyo González, Danza del Huracan (2022)
- Sam Kohler, somewhere in the caverns (2022)
- Daixuan Ai, Childhood Memories (2022)
- Sofía Rocha, On the asymptotic nature of longing (2022)
- Kyle Rivera, Dream Evanescence (2022)
- Gala Flagello, Miss Minutes (2022)
- Connor Gibbs, Inner Voice (2022)
- Connor Gibbs, Other Worlds (2021)
- Connor Gibbs, Expansion (2021)
- Connor Gibbs, Trails (2021)
- Du Yun, Oksoko (2021)
- David Clay Mettens, Hollows (2021)
- Wenxin Li, For Dreams Will Be Cold (2021)
- David Jones, An Impulse to Soar (2021)
- Shuying Li, Migration (2021)
- Jordyn Gallinek, Yellow Wallpaper (2021)
- Melina Tsui, Clanking, Rattling, Scratching (2021)
- Aaron Levin, Snow Fragments (2021)
- Pablo Gómez-Estévez, Antillean’s Intelect (2020)
- Indigo Knecht, MILA FOG (2020)
- Anthony Donofrio, XIII (2019)
- Julia Seeholzer, That Same Blood (2018)
- Hong-Da Chin, Sfumato (2018)
- Paul Poston, Picasso Dreams of Drawing Squares (2018)
- Michael Lanci, Endless Colored Ways (2018)
- Adam O’Dell, I stood and stared at a lake in a rainstorm (2017)
Standard Repertoire
Concertos
- Sergei Prokofiev, Sinfonia Concertante, Op. 125 (1952)
- Edward Elgar, Cello Concerto, Op. 85 (1918–1919)
- Antonín Dvořák, Cello Concerto, Op. 104 (1894–1895)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Variations on a Rococo Theme (1877)
- Édouard Lalo, Cello Concerto (1876)
- Camille Saint-Saëns, Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 33 (1872)
- Robert Schumann, Cello Concerto, Op. 129 (1850)
- Joseph Haydn, Cello Concerto No. 2 (1783)
- Joseph Haydn, Cello Concerto No. 1 (1760s)
Cello and Piano
- Alfred Schnittke, Cello Sonata No. 1 (1978)
- Henriëtte Bosmans, Cello Sonata (1919)
- Claude Debussy, Cello Sonata in D minor (1915)
- Sergei Rachmaninoff, Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19 (1901)
- Johannes Brahms,
- Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38 (1862–65)
- Cello Sonata No. 2 in F major, Op. 99 (1886)
- César Frank, Violin Sonata in A Major (1886)
- Franz Schubert, Sonata for Arpeggione in A minor, D. 821 (1824)
- Ludwig van Beethoven,
- Cello Sonata No. 1 in F major, Op. 5/1 (1796)
- Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 5/2 (1796)
- Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 69 (1807-08)
- Luigi Boccherini, Cello Sonata in A major, G.4 (1771)
Cello Solo
- Elliott Carter, Figment for Cello Alone (1994)
- Witold Lutosławski, Sacher Variation (1975)
- Hans Werner Henze, Serenade (1949)
- Gaspar Cassadó, Suite (1926)
- Zoltán Kodály, Solo Cello Sonata, Op. 8 (1915)
- Carlo Alfredo Piatti, 12 Caprices, Op. 25 (1865)
- Johann Sebastian Bach, Cello Suites, BWV 1007–1012 (c. 1720)
Chamber Music
- Iannis Xenakis, Roscobeck, for cello and double bass (1996)
- Judith Shatin, Secret Ground, for fl/cl/vln/vlc (1991)
- Olivier Messiaen, Quartet for the End of Time (1941)
21st-Century Repertoire
Solo Cello
- Fernanda Aoki Navarro, Emptying the Body (2012)
- Jason Eckardt, A way [tracing] (2006)
Cello + Instrument
- André Mehmari, Suíte Brasileira, for cello and piano (2017)
- Kinan Azmeh, The Fence, the Rooftop, and the Distant Sea, for clarinet and cello (2016)
- Samir Odeh-Tamimi, Jabsurr, for cello and piano (2009)
- Anna Paola Santillán Alcocer, Symbiosis, for cello and piano (2005)
- Jocy de Oliveira, Who Cares if She Cries…, for cello and soprano (2003)
Chamber Music
- Steven Banks, Cries, Sighs, and Dreams, for alto saxophone and string quartet (2022)
- Nico Muhly, Stranger, for tenor and string quartet (2019)
- Jesse Benjamin Jones, Snippet Variations, for cl/pno/vln/vlc (2009)
- Jessie Montgomery, Strum, for string quartet (2006)
- Andrew Norman, Light Screens, for flute and string trio (2002)