António Chagas Rosa, composer published by the MIC.PT, will be the protagonist at the next meeting within the cycle, Conversas com Compositores Portugueses Contemporâneos, organized by the Atelier de Composição, which will be taking place on December 6 at 5h00 p.m. at the Gato Vadio (Porto). Álvaro Salazar, the previous guest of these sessions, challenges now António Chagas Rosa with his creative, compositional and aesthetic thought.
Conversas com Compositores Portugueses Contemporâneos is a cycle of monthly encounters 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 invited author, in order to approach his / her compositional, technical or aesthetic reflection.

João Pedro Oliveira, composer published by the MIC.PT, is one of the artists selected within the Ibermúsicas porgramme to realize a residency at the CMMAS (Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras), where he will elaborate an acousmatic stereo work with dance, using vocal elements derived from ancient and traditional, South and Central American languages. This work will be carried out in collaboration with Rosario Romero, contemporary dancer residing in Morelia (Mexico).
Ibermúsicas is a programme for promoting Ibero-American music, whose objective is spreading the presence and knowledge on Latin-American cultural diversity in the field of music arts, while stimulating the creation of new audiences in the region, and providing new work opportunities for the professionals in this area.

The work Espelhos for actress / singer by Sara Carvalho, composer published by the MIC.PT, will be premiered by Liliana Caetano on December 7 in Aveiro at the GrETUA, Grupo Experimental de Teatro da Universidade de Aveiro. The performance of this work, also on December 8, integrates the PRISMAS Festival, organized by the International Culture Platform Germina.Cciones... - primaveras latino-americanas, created in 2007 by Luca Belcastro, and which unites a heterogenous group, constituted by creators, artists and people related to culture and social sciences.
The programming of PRISMAS - Permanent Festival of Creation is based on the performance of new works created by the participants of the meetings within the Germina.Cciones... From October to December the Festival is organized by various groups, which have emerged in various Latin American countries.

The work for voice and electronics De Fond en Comble by Miguel Azguime, which was premiered in November during the Música Viva 2014, will have another performance on December 14 at the GMEM - Centre National de Création Musicale in Marseille. De Fond en Comble will be preformed by the bass-baritone Nicholas Isherwood, for whom it was composed within his project The Electric Voice. As the singer mentions: "Miguel Azguime’s text is bitter sweet. Its five sections develop a wide variety of vocal timbres, from bel canto singing to extended vocal techniques. Text and music are always closely entwined and the composer plays with his own words as he leads us, always laughing, through the maze of contemporary Weltangst."
Apart from the work by this composer published by the MIC.PT, the programme of Nicholas Isherwood's recital also includes pieces by Jean-Claude Risset, David Felder, Lissa Meridan, Isaac Shankler and Karlheinz Stockahusen.

The first module of CARA ANO ZERO, a concentrated and concrete provocation within artistic creation, will be taking place on December 3 and 4 at 10h00 p.m. at the Cine-Teatro Constantino Nery in Matosinhos. This project includes the participation of five composers, that is, Filipe Lopes and Rui Penha, both published by the MIC.PT, as well as Gustavo Costa, Igor C. Silva and Rui Dias. For this concert the Matosinhos Jazz Orchestra (OJM) challenged these creators to conceive five pieces, organizing sound in time and particular space - a sound cylinder designed by Rui Penha for the Cine-Teatro. The event includes the participation of four musicians, André Dias (kalimba), Gilberto Bernardes (saxophone), Gustavo Costa (percussion) and Peter Evans (trumpet).
CARA is the name of the project that the OJM has been developing since 2010, for the development of a centre of high artistic output in Matosinhos, that is, a working centre of elevated density with Creativity & Real Time as the main factors within the programming and identity.

The work Anamorphoses VIII (2014) by Isabel Soveral was premiered on December 1 at the Universidad Autónoma in Madrid by the Contracello Duo. This month, the Duo constituted by Miguel Rocha (violoncello) and Adriano Aguiar (double bass) will present the new work of this composer published by the MIC.PT two more times, that is, at the Contemporary Culture Centre in Castelo Branco, on December 9 at 9h30 p.m., and at the Palácio Foz in Lisbon, on December 16 at 7h00 p.m. Apart from Isabel Soveral's music their programme, Music for Cello and Double Bass, also includes pieces by César Viana and António Victorino d'Almeida.
Isabel Soveral's cycle, Anamorphoses, is presently composed of eight pieces for different instrumental sets and for solo musicians, where the material is transformed from one work to another.

The work Duas canções populares portuguesas by Carlos Marecos, based on Portuguese traditional music will have its first performances in Portugal on December 6 and 7, at 5h00 p.m. at the Grande Auditório of the Superior School of Music in Lisbon (ESML). It was premiered on July 16 last year, at the 5^th Ibero-American Congress in Valência (Spain). The piece, by this composer published by the MIC.PT, will be preformed by Célia Teixeira and by the ESML Wind Orchestra conducted by Alberto Roque.
Celebrating this year the 10^th anniversary of its activity, the ESML Wind Orchestra has as its main objective the creation of new works by Portuguese composers, as well as giving first performances in Portugal of pieces by foreign composers, whose music is widely recognized.

The new CD, Cadavre Exquis, Portuguese Composers of the 21^st Century, by the Miso Records and under the auspices of the Portuguese Music Research & Information Centre, MIC.PT, was released on November 21, during the opening concert of the Música Viva 2014 at O'culto da Ajuda in Lisbon.

This new edition, which includes the performances of the Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble conducted by Pedro Neves, is composed of 45 music miniatures, acoustic and electroacoustic, created on the occasion of the 25^th anniversary of Miso Music Portugal in 2010, by various Portuguese contemporary artists: Álvaro Garcia de Zuñiga, André Castro, Ângela Lopes, António Chagas Rosa, António Ferreira, António de Sousa Dias, António Pinho Vargas, Bruno Gabirro, Cândido Lima, Carlos Alberto Augusto, Carlos Azevedo, Carlos Caires, Carlos Guedes, Carlos Marecos, Christopher Bochmann, Clotilde Rosa, Daniel Schvetz, Duarte Dinis Silva, Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta, Emanuel Frazão, Filipe Lopes, Isabel Pires, Isabel Soveral, Ivan Moody, João Madureira, João Pedro Oliveira, José Luís Ferreira, Luís Tinoco, Miguel Azguime, Patrícia Sucena de Almeida, Paula Azguime, Paulo Brandão, Paulo Ferreira-Lopes, Pedro Amaral, Pedro M. Rocha, Pedro Patrício, Pedro Rebelo, Ricardo Guerreiro, Ricardo Ribeiro, Rui Penha, Sara Carvalho, Simão Costa, Tiago Cutileiro, Tomás Henriques, Vasco Mendonça.

Making reference to the surrealist game of creating collective works of art, the Cadavre Exquis constitutes an affirmation of the richness, which nowadays exists in Portuguese art music, evidencing the phenomenon already proclaimed as the Second Renaissance of Composition in Portugal.

This new edition was realized within the MINSTREL European project (MusIc Network Supporting Trans-national exchange and dissemination of music Resources at European Level), where the MIC.PT is partner. The project includes the participation of 12 entities from 11 European countries: Greece, Slovakia, Poland, Austria, Cyprus, Belgium, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Portugal, Croatia and Latvia. MINSTREL aims at promoting the mobility and diversity in Europe, among artists connected with the art of music.

From the beginning of 2015 the Portuguese Music Research & Information Centre, MIC.PT, will move to new facilities in Lisbon, connected with the Miso Music Portugal's venue, O'Culto da Ajuda.
The change to these brand new facilities will also provide a new space for the MIC.PT archives, thus enabling various novelties in our regular activities.
Stay tuned for more information!