By: Bernard Richter
im Callobre "The Beginning", 2003 In his first project to date, Tim Callobre
brings his listeners an impressive display of technical achievement and artistic
focus, especially for an artist only nine years old. At the age of six this musical
prodigy started to play the piano and a year later was beginning to explore the
tonal beauty of the classical guitar. Here, Callobre starts off with a vibrant
rendition of Choros No. 2 by the well-known Brazilian composer Hector Villa-Lobos.
This particular composer must be of some import to Callobre, for the his ability to
make visible the more nuanced aspects of Villa-Lobos's music is worth noting. As
the album progresses, the young artist quickly turns to showcase his own prodigious
compositional skills on the piano, switching from piano to guitar and back again
almost effortlessly. The style of music found on "The Beginning" is tastefully
limited to a more classical repertoire, though at times the young musician/composer
likes to rock-out on his electric guitar as well. The apex of the album comes when
Callobre performs another one of Villa-Lobos's more technically demanding pieces.
It is clear that this very young musician is exceedingly talented, but his
performance of well-known pieces proves more effective for this listener than his
neatly structured compositions.
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Vol. 17, No. 2: Feb.-Mar. 2012
