Newsletter mic.pt 09-2011

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RICARDO RIBEIRO "IN FOCUS" ON MIC.PT IN SEPTEMBER
In September, the mic.pt “In Focus” section is dedicated to Ricardo Ribeiro, Portuguese composer, who this year celebrates his 40th anniversary. Born in Aveiro, Ricardo Ribeiro attended the Calouste Gulbenkian Music Conservatory and the composition course at the Lisbon Superior School of Music, as well as various courses led by such composers as Franco Donatoni, Magnus Lindberg, Philippe Manoury, Tristan Murail, Salvatore Sciarrino, Jonathan Harvey and Brian Ferneyhough. He continued his research and compositional work in Paris with Emmanuel Nunes, who since then has appeared as a determining influence to his work. During seven years Ricardo Ribeiro practically stopped writing, searching for new ways of expression. He decided to withdraw a lot of works from his catalogue. This period was a time of transition from complexity and density towards simplicity and more space, which presently define his creation in accordance with the motto: “to express the maximum with the minimum”. In his work the composer engages spectral techniques and gives a lot of attention to new qualities in music. In September visit the mic.pt website and discover Ricardo Ribeiro’s musical work.

Fernando Lopes-Graça

As part of the celebrations of the centenary of the birth of Fernando Lopes-Graça, the Atelier de Composição held in his honor a memorandum, carried out on land of Tras-os-Montes. As part of the project, and complement the chain of events that were held there, was material to an issue on various aspects of his music and his musical and artistic thought that now sees the light of day.

Jorge Medauar - O Homem que sabia demais, Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta

Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta wrote this book in 2003, when Jorge Medauar, his great friend, died. This edition of memoirs and letters are, beyond an hommage, a portrait of a epoch.

Smith Quartet, Music for String Quartet & Electronics
New CD from the label Miso Records will be released on September 11th at the Belém Arts Centre, during the Musica Viva Festival 2011.The CD has recordings of works by Pedro Rebelo, Carlos Caires, Miguel Azguime and Pedro Amaral.

Mars, Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta
MARS is a solo piano concert created by the Brazilian composer Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta. The piece was made in memory of the great teacher and musicologist Maria de Lourdes Sekeff and dedicated to her son, the musician Edson Zampronha - both friends of the composer. MARS is entirely composed after images of the surface of the planet Mars.

João Godinho, Fogo Posto
New work for piano by João Godinho, was premiered on teh 26 July by the pisnist Joana Gama at the Centro Cultural de Cascais during the 37th Estoril Festival.
>> see work

Eurico Carrapatoso, Cinco Reflexões sobre Peer Gynt
New work by Eurico Carrapatoso, was premiered on the 27 July by the Sonor Ensemble conducted by Luis Aguirre, at the Centro Cultural de Cascais during the 37th Estoril Festival.
>> see work

Ricardo Ribeiro, Intensités
>> see score

Ricardo Ribeiro, Intensités
(w. electronics)
>> see score

Ricardo Ribeiro, Composition pour Orchestre de Chambre nº2
>> see score

Ricardo Ribeiro, Birthday Fragment
>> see score

Carlos Caires, Al niente...
>> see score

Carlos Caires, Clepsidra
>> see score

Carlos Caires, Horizon
>> see score

Carlos Caires, Limiar
>> see score

Carlos Caires, Quattro
>> see score

Christopher Bochmann, Boreas
>> see score

CARLOS CAIRES EDITED BY MIC.PT
The Portuguese Music Research & Information Centre is now editing the composer Carlos Caires. There are already 5 scores available for download and other will follow in the next few weeks.

RICARDO RIBEIRO EDITED BY MIC.PT
The composer Ricardo Ribeiro is from now on edited by the Portuguese Music Research & Information Centre. There are already 4 scores available for download and other will follow in the next few weeks.

MÚSICA VIVA FESTIVAL 2011 - MIND OVER MATTER
Music Thinks, Music Is Alive!
Ever since its foundation the Música Viva Festival has been a challenge for creators and performers, a privileged vehicle for communication of music, which is being created here and now, of music reinventing itself every day in search of its own identity and space, of music certain that its nature prevails... in its transmission. Yet during the 17th edition, the Música Viva will have to manage a serious contradiction between the festival’s unique projection on international level and the strong threat facing its development due to the adversities and instabilities of the Portuguese artistic and cultural sector in 2011.
Belonging to a small circuit of noteworthy new music festivals in Europe and coveted by many, who would like to take part in it, the Música Viva is an indispensible window to our national musical creation. It constitutes a vision for a broad diversity of proposals, aesthetics and languages, considering that music is as performative as other forms of art. Therefore, we will not let this lingering uncertainty manifest itself neither in the festival’s core mission, nor in the quality and diversity of the proposed repertoire. Between September 9th and 14th visit the Belém Cultural Centre in Lisbon, where the Música Viva 2011 Festival will be concentrated in a series of concerts and activities, undoubtedly appealing to everyone’s curiosity.

FESTIVAL MÚSICA VIVA 2011 - CURSOS
Sala Amália Rodrigues - from 14h30 to 17h30
>>12 September - Workshop with Pierre Couprie
>>13 September - Workshop with Bertrand Dubedout
>>14 September - Workshop with António de Sousa Dias

MIC.PT SCORE CATALOGUE
The Portuguese Music Research & Information Centre has as one of its main activities the online edition and distribution of music scores. Presently the catalogue has the following scores.

RESULTS OF THE MINI-OPERAS COMPOSITION COMPETITION
The Mini-Operas Composition Competition, a co-production of the São Carlos National Theatre and the Archipelago, Association of Composers of Portugal, as already announced the candidates selected. Composers Edward Ayres Luiz d'Abreu, Luis Soldado, Sofia Sousa Rocha and Tiago Cabrita Iwill present their works on 4 and 5 February 2012 in the Hall São Carlos National Theatre. The jury composed by João Madureira, Carlos Marecos, João Paulo Santos, Pedro Neves and Luis Miguel Cintra, has also decided to give honorable mentions to Miguel Dinis and Nuno Jacinto.

HISTORICAL ARCHIVE OF THE MUSICIANS UNION IN CASCAIS
The collection of the Museum of Portuguese Music - Casa Verdades de Faria, in Monte Estoril, will be enriched this year with documentation of the historical archive of the Musicians' Union, under the collaboration agreement signed on July 16 at the Museum.
Of great interest in local and national, the historical archive of the Musicians Union brings together documentation of Portuguese musical life of an extended period of over one hundred years. From his analysis it is possible to observe the national musical organizations and activities as well as recover the history of its stakeholders, especially the history of Fado.

2nd INTERNATIONAL COMPOSITION COMPETITION FERNANDO LOPES-GRAÇA
The Lopes-Graça Composition Prize was organized by Cascais Town Hall in 1994, pretending to pay tribute to the composer Fernando Lopes-Graça and stimulate the musical criation. Each year we whant to award a prize to works for different instrumental formation and or vocals, and invites composers of composers of recognized merit to be part of the jury.
The Lopes-Graça Prize includes a pecuniary amount, the first audition in concert of the wining work and of the score edition.

1st INTERNATIONAL COMPOSITION PRIZE MACHADO E CERVEIRA
O In 2011 the Ministry of Culture will promote and sponsor, with the support of the Cascais Town Hall / Museum of Portuguese Music and the Mafra Town Hall, the “1st International Composition Prize Machado e Cerveira”, an award intended to foster the creation of new repertoire for the magnificent set of six historic organs of the Mafra Basilica, and to honour the great Portuguese organ builder Antonio Xavier Machado e Cerveira (1756-1828), builder of of three of the six of these organs recently restored.