Sara Carvalho is guest artist at the SiMN 2014 + matrix14 on tour, which will be taking place between September 11 and 18 in Curitiba, Brazil. Within this event, the trio of the ensemble Móbile (Fabrício Ribeiro, Maurício Carneiro, Luis Néri Pfützenreuter) will give the first performance of Eyjafallajökull for flute, clarinet and piano, created by this composer published by the MIC.PT. The concert will take place on September 15 at Capela Santa Maria (Curitiba). The 2^nd edition of SiMN is promoted by Núcleo Música Nova (Universidade Estadual do Paraná). In the context of the German Year in Brazil the SiMN 2014 includes the partnership of the Experimentalstudio des SWR (pioneering institution with regards to the development of electronic music in Europe), as well as of its festival matrix on tour.

Between September 10 and 13 João Pedro Oliveira is invited artist at the 1^st Electroacoustic Music Festival in Mérida (Mexico), where he will conduct a masterclass in collaboration with the SuigénerisLab. The event's programme will also include a concert with the music of this composer published by the MIC.PT. In the second half of September, between 18 and 24, João Pedro Oliveira will also participate as invited composer in the 3^rd edition of Jornadas da Escola de Música in Rosario (Argentina), where he will give two conferences: The Teaching of Composition Today and Models of Interaction Between Instruments and Electroacoustic Sounds. The event's programme will include two portrait concerts with the composer's works: Mosaic, In Tempore, Hydatos, Entre o Ar e a Perfeição, Integrais IV and Time Spell.

On September 14 at 5h00 p.m. at the Belém Arts Centre, Miguel Azguime, composer published by the MIC.PT, will participate as narrator in the performance of Frederic Rzewski's work, Coming Together, during a concert of the Portuguese Chamber Orchestra (OCP - Orquestra de Câmara Portuguesa), conducted by Pedro Carneiro. The OCP and Miguel Azguime will perform the work of this American anarchist and minimalist, using the mere instructions, which the composer pointed out in the score - the music is accompanied by the increasingly tense reading of a text by Sam Melville, prisoner in Attica, where he was later assassinated during a riot. The programme of the concert will also include works by Joseph Haydn and Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.

Between September 8 and 10 António Pinho Vargas, composer published by the MIC.PT will give a seminar on composition in the framework of the FEM'14 | Festival de Música de Castelo Branco (Music Festival of Castelo Branco). Organized by the SinfoniAutêntica Association the FEM'14 includes in its programme lectures, workshops, masterclasses, expositions and concerts, as well as three competitions: Little Great Musicians Competition, Young Musicians and Chamber Music Competition and the Young Portuguese Composers Competition. 

On September 26, at the Fábrica Centro Ciência Viva in Aveiro, in the context of the European Researchers' Night, Filipe Lopes, composer published by the MIC.PT, as well as Paulo Maria Rodrigues and Henrique Fernandes, will be creating music within the Pianoscópio. Conceived by Companhia de Música Teatral this project is an an experience, which deconstructs and transforms the piano into a collective instrument, a sound exhibit / sculpture capable of producing sounds of various colours, a space to be inhabited by people and to produce sound as a result of their interaction.

The works by two Portuguese composers published by the MIC.PT, Uma mesa é uma mesa. Será? (2008) by José Luís Ferreira and Nuno e os Monstros (2008) by Isabel Soveral, are included in the new edition by Miso Records, Contos Contados Com Som, Volume II, released on August 16. This new CD, also with works by Simão Costa and Sérgio Pelágio composed within the Electroacoustic Theatre for children by Miso Music Portugal, is a continuation of the project's discography, available at the new Miso Records Online Shop.

The works for violoncello and live electronics by Miguel Azguime, Moment à l'extrêmement… (2006), and by Ricardo Ribeiro, Ostinati (2010), both composers published by the MIC.PT, are included on the new CD by Filipe Quaresma, dedicated to music for violoncello solo by Portuguese contemporary composers, also with pieces by Carlos Azevedo, Alexandre Delgado and Nuno Côrte-Real. Various of the works on this album, including the one by Ricardo Ribeiro, are released in their first world recording. The release and presentation of this author's edition, supported by the GDA and produced by the Artway Lda., will take place on September 20 at Casa da Música, as well as at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, on September 24, within the Young Musicians Award 2014 (Prémio Jovens Músicos 2014).

Fernando C. Lapa, composer published by the MIC.PT, is president of the jury of the 4^th Fernando Lopes-Graça Composition Award 2014, promoted by the Cascais Municipality and the Museum of Portuguese Music, and organized in homage to this Portuguese composer, Fernando Lopes-Graça (1906-1994), whose 20^th anniversary of death is commemorated this year. The Award is destined to composers of any nationality and age, who would like to present an unpublished work for guitar, with duration between 8 and 12 minutes. The deadline for submitting applications is September 19, 2014. The chosen works are to be announced until September 30, 2014, however this date can change according to the number of works submitted for the competition.

The 5^th session of the cycle, Conversas com Compositores Portugueses Contemporâneos, will take place on September 27 at the Gato Vadio Bookshop in Porto. During this event António de Sousa Dias, composer published by the MIC.PT, invited for the 4^th session of the cycle, will be moderating a conversation with Álvaro Salazar, an essential figure in Portuguese contemporary music. These monthly encounters are organized by the Atelier de Composição in Porto, with the aim to present "who are, how do they approach music, and what are the inspirations" of Portuguese contemporary composers. Within an informal conversation, during these events one can listen to significant works of every author, in order to approach their compositional, technical or aesthetic reflection.

Fernando C. Lapa, composer published by the MIC.PT, will be commenting a concert with Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony no. 10. The event will take place on September 21 at the Sala Suggia, Casa da Música and the work by the Russian composer will be performed by the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música conducted by Takuo Yuasa. This Symphony belongs to a wider group of Shostakovich's works with autobiographical character and includes various characters. Since its setting is the time of the communist regime, Stalin is portrayed in one of the work's movements.

Vermalung IV - Ludwig v. (2007), work by Luís Antunes Pena, composer published by the MIC.PT, will be presented at two concerts of the Orquestra XXI - on September 5 at the Casa da Música in Porto, as well as on September 7 at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. The Orquestra XXI, which assembles around 50 young Portuguese musicians who develop their activity abroad, will be conducted by Dinis Sousa. The concert's programme is extended over four centuries of music from Henry Purcell to Luís Antunes Pena, including Britten, Ravel and Beethoven.

António Pinho Vargas, composer published by the MIC.PT, is one of the Associated Artists at the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa (Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra) during the 2014/15 Concert Season. In this context his work Six Portraits of Pain for cello and ensemble, will be performed by Pavel Gomziakov and by the musicians of the Orchestra conducted by Pedro Amaral, during the Inaugural Concert of the Orquestra Metropolitana on September 14 at 5h30 p.m., at the São Luiz Municipal Theatre in Lisbon. Throughout the 2014/15 António Pinho Vargas' music will be performed by the Orchestra within its Baroque Season, Symphonic Season, Chamber Music Season, and within other projects organized under the auspices of the Metropolitana.

Filipe Lopes, composer published by the MIC.PT, will participate in the ICMC | SMC 2014 Conference, where on September 15 he will present a paper on the following subject: Polisphone: Creating and Performing with a flexible sound map. The ICMC | SMC 2014 Conference, Music Technology Meets Philosophy, will take place between September 14 and 20, constituting for the first time a meeting point between two well established events, that is, 11^th Sound and Music Computing Conference and 40^th International Computer Music Conference. The ICMC | SMC 2014 Joint Conference is organized by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Onassis Cultural Center and the Institute for Research on Music and Acoustics (IEMA, Athens), with the support of the MINSTREL project.

The work for orchestra, Greeting (2010) by João Madureira, composer published by the MIC.PT, had its first German performance during the international premiere of Jovem Orquestra Portuguesa (JOP; Portuguese Youth Orchestra) conducted by Pedro Carneiro. The concert took place on August 5 within the Festival Kultursommer Nordhessen in Kassel. The JOP also performed the same programme with the music by João Madureira, Robert Shumann and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, on August 3 at the Vianna da Motta Auditiorium of the Lisbon Superior School of Music. The JOP is a project of Orquestra de Câmara Portuguesa (Portuguese Chamber Orchestra), with the aim to create and develop a youth orchestra for musicians from Portugal.

The issue #9 of the Sounds in Europe magazine has published a text by José Grossinho and Jakub Szczypa, Digitisation as Opportunity - the Example of the Portuguese Music Research & Information Centre. This article presents the MIC.PT as an example of a Music Information Centre in the digital era within its various activities, including publishing and online distribution of scores by Portuguese composers, thus covering the general theme of this edition of Sounds in Europe focused on Music & E-Culture.
The Sounds in Europe is a magazine published by the European Music Council, which integrates various organizations dedicated to music, including the Portuguese Music Research & Information Centre.

The Slovenian Section of the ISCM (International Society for Contemporary Music) invites composers to submit scores, installations or projects, which will be chosen by an international jury for the World Music Days 2015. The Festival will be taking place between September 26 and October 1, 2015, in Slovenia. According to the rules of the Call for Scores / Works, the applications can be submitted individually or through one of the ISCM members, including Miso Music Portugal / Portuguese Music Research & Information Centre. In this context Miso Music Portugal will invite six composers published by the MIC.PT to integrate the official application of the ISCM Portuguese Section for the World Music Days 2015, in order to guarantee the performance of Portuguese music at the Festival. This year the Call for Scores / Works for the WMD includes 15 categories within various instrumental sets. The deadline for submission of the applications is October 31, 2014.

The Young Musicians Award 2014 (PJM - Prémio Jovens Músicos 2014) is an annual classical music event, an initiative of Antena 2 - RTP (Portuguese Television and Radio), which for almost three decades has been distinguishing new talents and marking new generations of musicians in Portugal. This year, within the 28^th edition of the PJM, Antena 2 and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation continue their collaboration initiated in 2011.
The PJM 2014 is constituted of various stages, with the final at 4^th edition of the Young Musicians Festival (Festival dos Jovens Músicos), which will be taking place between September 24 and 26 at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. The Festival's programme includes the Awards Ceremony (on September 24 at 4h00 p.m.), as well as various concerts with the participation of the Gulbenkian Orchestra and the musicians of the Gulbenkian Orchestra internship, the Drumming - Percussion Group, Cameratra Nov'Arte, Camerata Atlântica, and the laureates of the PJM previous editions. The Gala Concert of the Young Musician of the Year (Jovem Músico do Ano) will take place on September 26 at 9h30 p.m., and it will include the participation of the Soloist, Young Musician of the Year 2014 and winner of the Silva Pereira Award, as well as of the Gulbenkian Orchestra conducted by Pedro Carneiro. The concert's programme will include a New Work, winner at the SPA / Antena 2 Composition Award, and the 3^rd Symphony by Luís de Freitas Branco. There are also various accompanying events in the Festival's programme, such as the release of the new CD by Filipe Quaresma, with cello works by Portuguese contemporary composers.