Performances 2012

In the “Requiem’s” modal harmonic structures and language I find references to the music of the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs by Henryk Mikołaj Górecki... >> read more

At two concerts of its most recent programming (November 17 and 27) Casa da Música presented 4 premiere performances of works by Portuguese composers, all of them, in fact, commissioned by the same institution... >> read more

Two concerts at the Goethe-Institut in Lisbon, on October 8 and 10, concluded the Música Viva 2012 Festival – Giving Voice!... >> read more

Commissioned by the Gulbenkian Foundation for the 50th anniversary of the Gulbenkian Orchestra, the new work by Vasco Mendonça, “Group Together, avoid speech” was premiered on October 17 and 19, 2012... >> read more

The Gala Concert of the Young Musicians Award (Prémio Jovens Músicos), which took place on September 29 at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, was an opportunity to listen to the première performance of the new work by Sérgio Azevedo... >> read more

The first three days of the Música Viva 2012 Festivalwere rich in the diversity of proposals and presented aesthetics... >> read more

On September 22 and 23 I went to the Belém Arts Centre to see two performances of the Música Viva Festival... >> read more

A concert of the Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble: that is, an Anglo-Portuguese name, playing with sound (Som, Sondar, de Arte), desiring to project into the world this game between art and research... >> read more

On April 19 and 20 Pedro Amaral’s music came back to the Grand Auditorium of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation with the premiere performances of his new work for orchestra, “Transmutations pour orchestre – La bibliothèque en feu”... >> read more

As a result of a competition promoted by the Arquipélago (Portuguese Composers’ Association) and the São Carlos National Theatre, four independent opera scenes of young Portuguese composers... >> read more

On February 11, at the concert of the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música, the audience from Oporto had an opportunity to hear, within the programme featuring works by Bartók, Paganini and Boris Blacher, the premiere performance of “All-in-one expanded” by Carlos Caires... >> read more

The second concert of the Matosinhos String Quartet 2012 Concert Season took place at the Cine-Teatro Constantino Nery on February 8th, differently to what had been previously announced... >> read more

The 2012 Matosinhos String Quartet Concert Season began on January 19 at the Cine-Teatro Constantino Nery... >> read more