On July 4 at 5h00 p.m., Cândido Lima, composer published by the MIC.PT, is the following author invited for the cycle of Conversations with Portuguese Composers of Today, which the Atelier de Composição carries out at Gato Vadio in Porto. This composer with one of the vastest creative music productions in Portugal, will be interviewed by Ricardo Ribeiro, the protagonist of the previous session of the Conversations, and whose scores are also published by the MIC.PT. These meetings serve as a complement to the editorial work developed by the Atelier de Composição. They aim to present "who they are, how they think of music, and what are the inspirations" of today's Portuguese composers. Within an informal conversation one listens to important works in the production of every invited author, serving as a departure point to approach their compositional, technical or aesthetic thought...

In May and June João Pedro Oliveira, composer published by the MIC.PT, received two international composition awards. In the framework of the International Composition Award - Organ of the Mafra National Palace, whose results were announced in May, he received the 1^st award in the B Category for the work Ma mére l'Oye, as well as a honourable mention in the A Category for the work 6 Alleluias. Another international composition competition where in June João Pedro Oliveira received the 2^nd award for the piece Hydatos (2008) is KLANG ! 2015, organized by the Maison des Arts Sonores & KLANG ! acousmonium in France. In this sense this institution dedicated to the promotion and diffusion of electroacoustic music will publish a CD with João Pedro Oliveira's winning work together with another electroacoustic fresco of his, 'Aphâr (2007), which was also finalist at the same competition.

Un Rêve, Le Désir for violoncelo and tibetan singing bowl and …knowledge is but oblivion… (Filipe Pires in Memoriam) for solo flute, are two pieces by Eduardo Luís Patriarca, composer published by the MIC.PT, which will be premiered in July. The first one will be performed by David Patriarca at the Cellists Marathon, which will be taking place on July 4 at Casa da Música in Porto. This event is dedicated to the 100^th Anniversary of Madalena Sá e Costa. For its part the piece for solo flute will be performed by Nuno Inácio on July 7 in the framework of the 1^st edition of the Jornadas da Música in Mafra, an event destined to all young musicians of Portugal, from the north to the south, from the west to the east. The score of …knowledge is but oblivion… (Filipe Pires in Memoriam) by Eduardo Patriarca was published and provided on-line by the MIC.PT in May. It is now one of the obligatory pieces for the licentiate conclusion at the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra.

Lumine clarescet is the work commissioned by the chamber choir Les Éléments from Toulouse to António Chagas Rosa, composer published by the MIC.PT. It was premiered on May 5 at the Toulouse Cathedral during a concert dedicated to Portuguese and Spanish Polyphony from the Past and the Present. In July this piece for 18 voices will be performed again within the same repertoire, at various concerts in France and Portugal: on July 18 at the Festival Musiques des Lumières in Abbaye-école de Sorèze; on July 19 at the Festival Musiques des Lumières in Abbaye-école de Sorèze; on July 24 at the Cistermúsica Festival in Alcobaça; and also on July 31 at the Musique en Chemin Festival in La Romieu.

Tra le terre is a new work by Miguel Azguime, composer published by the MIC.PT. It has been written for the Italian ensemble Ex Novo, as a commission of the La Fenice Theatre in Venice for the festival Lo spirito della musica di Venezia in the context of the 2015 Marathon dedicated to contemporary music by Italian, Israeli, Portuguese, Greek, Iranian, Albanian, Turkish, Lebanese and Maltese composers. The piece’s title Tra le terre refers to the Mediterranean Sea, not only as a geographical place in itself but also as a place of encounter of different cultures. The premiere will take place on the July 9 2015 at Teatro La Fenice in Venice..

Pedro Rebelo, composer published by the MIC.PT, is conductor and pianist at the Cidade Museu performance, which will be taking place on July 10 at the Viseu Cathedral. This project joins a team of musicians connected with electroacoustic, contemporary and improvised music, as well as a visual artist, that is: Ricardo Jacinto (cello and electronics), Franziska Schroeder (saxophones) and André Cepeda (photography and video). Cidade Museu explores five spaces of Viseu, unoccupied or in transition, through the concept of resonance. The performance at the Cathedral emphasizes the space as a platform for distribution of musicians, an 8-channel sound projection system and video projections.

During the month of July João Pedro Oliveira will participate in two international events in Europe and South America, dedicated to contemporary music creation. Sigra Festival 2015 is the first one taking place between July 4 and 18 at various locations in Catalonia: Flix, Ascó, Riba, Roja d'Ebre, Vienbre, Miravet, Corbera d'Ebre, Tortosa and Barcelona. In the context of this event dedicated to new music creation and local heritage, João Pedro Oliveira will present his electroacoustic work with video, Et Ignis Involvens (2005). Another festival that includes the participation of this composer published by the MIC.PT is Bahía[in]sonora 2015 taking place between July 31 and August 2 at the MBA MAC Museum and the Municipal Theatre in Bahía Blanca, Argentine. Here João Pedro Oliveira will not only realize a conference and masterclass, but also present two of his works, Et Ignis Involvens (2005) and 'Aphâr (2007).

Music by various Portuguese composers makes part of the programme of the Sax Open Festival, which is taking place between July 9 and 14 in Strasbourg, France, that is: Sofia Sousa Rocha, composer published by the MIC.PT, with the piece Entr'Ata for saxophone solo; Paulo Bastos, Luís Carvalho, Hugo Correia, Lino Guerreiro (premieres of Grooving On, Hulk and Less but not Last, among other pieces), Jorge Salgueiro, Igor C. Silva (premiere of Numb) and Evgueni Zoudilkine (premiere of Estudo-Aquarela). The Festival is a triennial project dedicated to research (congress) and performance (festival) within the universe of saxophone, putting side by side tradition and innovation. The 2015 edition of Sax Open also includes the participation of various Portuguese performers: the Metropolitana Saxophone Ensemble, Henrique Portovedo, António Luís Ribeiro, João Pedro Silva and Pedro Santos.

This July, in the context of the new series Dossiers . Portuguese Composers of the 20^th and 21^st Centuries, we provide another online publication - the new edition in English of the Dossier no. 3 dedicated to António Ferreira.
The series, Portuguese Composers of the 20^th and 21^st Centuries, intends to promote the work of Portuguese contemporary composers, constituting an “introspection” in the work of every composer, being simultaneously an encouragement to explore and (re)discover their music, as well as their aesthetic and philosophic reflection. Each Dossier is built of a short biography, questionnaire/interview or musicological article, catalogue of works with two ordinations (by instrumentation or following the chronological order) and discography.

Another session of the Digital SOS initiative took place on June 18 at the Torre do Tombo National Archive in Lisbon. Its objective was to approach the subject of the sound and phonographic heritage through the identification of problems, areas of intervention and technical structural issues, which concern the professionals working in this area. Organized by the General Directorate of Books, Archives and Libraries in partnership with the Ethnomusicology Institute – Centre for Studies on Music and Dance, this event makes part of the Digital Continuity project, where the MIC.PT is member, and whose perspective is long-term digital preservation. The speakers: Francisco Barbedo (DGLAB), Introduction – Digital Continuity Project by the DGLAB . António Tilly (INET-Md/Matéria do Som), Sound Heritage: Delimitation of the object and its problems . Pedro Felix (Fado Museum, Digital Archive), Miguel Azguime (Portuguese Music Research & Information Centre), Eduardo Leite (Portuguese Radio and Television, Historic Archive), The (Already) Identified Heritage . Hilário Lopes (Portuguese Radio and Television, Digital Audio Production and Archive Infrastructure at the RTP), Ana Cardoso (Portuguese Authors' Society, Digital Archives and Authors' Rights), Inês Queiroz (FCSH-UNL, Europeana Sounds), Managing Systems of Digital Audio Documents.