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CLOTILDE ROSA "IN FOCUS" ON MIC.PT IN APRIL
In June the “In Focus” section of the mic.pt, member of the Adkins Chiti “Women in Music” Foundation, is dedicated to Clotilde Rosa, composer, harpist and teacher, one of the first to introduce in Portugal, together with Jorge Peixinho, the experience of the famous Darmstadt summer courses. “Clotilde Rosa’s creative emergence on the Portuguese musical scene is simultaneously atypical and symptomatic”, wrote Manuel Pedro Ferreira on the pages of “Ten Portuguese Composers” (“Dez Compositores Portugueses”). She awakened for composition only around the age of forty-five through the participation, as performer, in the Lisbon Contemporary Music Group, conducted by Jorge Peixinho, becoming one of the most important personalities in what concerns the creation and divulgation of contemporary music. Her catalogue includes more than eighty titles: chamber music works, orchestral music, an opera, a ballet and also various didactic pieces. Presently, in her musical language she does not obey any established code, using freely a symbiosis of all the techniques, which she has developed until now – from serialism to repetitive minimalism present in works with aleatoric fragments. In June rediscover the work of Clotilde Rosa, one of the women composers on mic.pt.

 
Cândido Lima, Gestos-Circus-Círculos
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Cândido Lima, HÉAMAÓAMAÉH
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Fernando C. Lapa, Quatro Estações
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Fernando C. Lapa, Caligrafias
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Fernando C. Lapa, Há outras coisas lá fora
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Fernando C. Lapa, Plural XI
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Fernando C. Lapa, Quadros de Agosto
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Fernando C. Lapa, Suite Doiro
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Fernando C. Lapa, Trindades
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Fernando C. Lapa, Variações sobre o nome da Paz
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Nuno Peixoto de Pinho, Non Riesco a Cantare le sue Parole
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Nuno Peixoto de Pinho,Ysin
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Sara Carvalho, 7 Pomegranate Seeds
Sara Carvalhos monograhic CD , was released in May by Numérica. In this edition participate several ensembles and soloists: Performa Ensemble, Mieko Kanno, Trio Neue Musik, Raquel Camarinha, Oficina Musica Viva, Helena Marinho, Sebastian Wiegers, Yan Pipal, Trevor McTait and Oliver Parr.

Glosas nº.5
The 5th number of the Glosas magazine, published by the Movimento Patrimonial pela Música Portuguesa, was released on May 19 at the National Library (Biblioteca Nacional). The magazine contains articles by António Pinho Vargas, Sérgio Azevedo, among many others.

 


Clotilde Rosa, Espiral
Clotilde Rosa's new work for voice and ensemble, was premiered on April 21 by the Lisbon Contemporary Music Group, conducted by Christopher Bochmann. The concert took place at the Cine-Teatro Paraíso in Tomar.
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Andreia Pinto- Correia, Delilah's Last Love
New work by Andreia Pinto-Correia for percussion and soprano was premiered on May 8 at the Jordan Hall in Boston by Haleh Abghari (soprano) and George Nickson (percussion).
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Paulo Ferreira-Lopes, seven short songs from the forgetness book
New work for string quartet by Paulo Ferreira-Lopes was premiered on May 9 at the Cine-Teatro Constantino Nery (Matosinhos) by the Matosinhos String Quartet.
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José Luís Ferreira, S(t)(w)itched ON
New work for percussion and live electronics by José Luís Ferreira was premiered on May 13 during the Percussion Festival of the Lisbon Superior School of Music, by Abel Cardoso (percussion) and José Luís Ferreira (electronics).
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Nuno da Rocha, Sophia
New work for soprano and guitar by Nuno da Rocha, was premiered on May 19 by Elsa Cortez (soprano) and Júlio Guerreiro (guitar) at the Solar dos Zagallos (Sobreda da Caparica).

Diogo Alvim, 27 Ossos
A new choreography by Tânia Carvalho with music for toy piano by Diogo Alvim, was presented on May 19 and 20 in Paris with Joana Gama performing on the toy piano.
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Edward Ayres Abreu, Parque de estrelas, vento e memórias
New work for voice and ensemble by Edward Luiz Ayres d'Abreu was premiered on May 26 by the Lisbon Contemporary Music Group conducted by Pedro Neves. The concert took place at the Lisbon Conservatory.

João Ferreira, Unwanted
New work for voice and ensemble by João Ferreira was premiered on May 26 by the Lisbon Contemporary Music Group conducted by Pedro Neves. The concert took place at the Lisbon Conservatory.

NEW COMPOSOSER ON MIC.PT
>> Filipe Lopes
FERNANDO C. LAPA AND NUNO PEIXOTO DE PINHO EDITED BY THE MIC.PT
The Portuguese Music Research & Information Centre started editing scores by the composers Fernando C. Lapa and Nuno Peixoto de Pinho. Presently there are 8 scores by Fernando C. Lapa and 2 scores by Nuno Peixoto de Pinho available for download on mic.pt.
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MÚSICA VIVA FESTIVAL 2012 - 18th Edition!
Portugal is facing a profound crisis: both economical and philosophical!
The art of Portuguese music is experiencing what is probably its most remarkable golden age, superior to the age of polyphony!
Contradicting the disinvestment in art and culture practiced by the Portuguese government, contemporary composers and performers affirm the richness and vitality, without precedent, to which the Música Viva Festival gives voice, being a privileged vehicle for communication of music created here and now, of music reinventing itself day after day.
A space for circulation, and meeting of ideas and aesthetics, the programme of the 18th edition of the Música Viva Festival, which will be taking place in Lisbon at two different venues and timelines – September 18th to 23rd at the Belém Cultural Centre and from October 6th to 10th and the Goethe Institut in Lisbon – will be dedicated, in its essence, to new Portuguese creation, with the focus, once again, on the relations of music with technology.

2nd INTERNATIONAL FORUM FOR YOUNG COMPOSERS
In order to stimulate the creation and circulation of new music works, the Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble, the Goethe Institut in Lisbon and the Musikhochschule in Munich are organizing the second edition of the Sond'Ar-te International Forum for Young Composers, which will be taking place between October 6th and 10th 2012 at the Goethe Institut in Lisbon.