Organization/Event Póvoa de Varzim Municipality / XXX Póvoa de Varzim International Music Festival
Venue City Concert Hall
Town Póvoa de Varzim
Country Portugal
Program Notes
Derivação (Derivation) is a composition for piano where I explore derivation as the fundamental technique to create musical discourse. The initial musical material is somewhat void, neutral, a raw material to be subjected to subsequent derivative processes. Composing is frequently about the exploration of a given material’s potentialities, and, often, the right moment to inject new ideas is when the preceding ones have been sufficiently exploited. This creates the need for music renewal. Because this simple premise lies at the core of this composition, it can be considered as a kind of freedom manifesto: freedom to have no predefined sections, freedom to use no rigid compositional schemes (or systems), freedom to make use of intuition.
Gonçalo Gato
Prizes
Name of Award 3rd Póvoa de Varzim International Composition Contest - Chamber Music