The 1st International Congress for Electroacoustic Music . Electroacoustic Winds 2015 in Aveiro, organized by the Research Centre for Electro-Acoustic Music (CIME) and the Institute for Ethnomusicology – Research Centre for Music and Dance (INET-md) at the University of Aveiro, will be taking place between September 16 and 20 at the Culture and Congress Centre in Aveiro. It will include the participation of various composers published by the MIC.PT: Isabel Soveral, António de Sousa Dias, Luís Antunes Pena, João Pedro Oliveira, Miguel Azguime, Rui Dias and Cândido Lima; as well the special presence of composers from the USA and France, Daria Semegen, John Chowning and Jean-Claude Risset, among many other participants. Organized under the coordination of Isabel Soveral, the EAW 2015 constitutes an event with training activities for musicians and technicians and, for a wider audience, with conferences, concerts and other initiatives organized in collaboration with Arte no Tempo. The EAW 2015 intends to fulfill the double objective of encouraging the research and the exchange of knowledge, simultaneously, promoting a music genre with which the audiences are still not quite familiar, following the idea that it is in the confrontation with the artistic objects of the highest interest that one gains new audiences.

The Cantabile Festival and the Young Musicians Festival in the context of the Young Musicians Award 2015 (PJM 2015), are two events whose programme include works by António Pinho Vargas, composer published by the MIC.PT. Within the first one co-organized by the Gulbenkian Foundation and the Goethe Institute, at a concert on September 26, the soloists of the Cantabile Festival and the Gulbenkian Orchestra will present three solo and chamber works by António Pinho Vargas, Antiques (2010-12), Dois violinos para Carlos Paredes (2003) and Três fragmentos para clarinete solo (1985-87), intertwined with pieces by Mozart, Schubert and Shostakovich. At the Young Musicians Festival, co-organized by the Gulbenkian Foundation and Antena 2, the programme of the PJM 2015 final Concert of the Young Musician of the Year, on October 2 with the Gulbenkian Orchestra conducted by Jean-Marc Burfin, will include António Pinho Vargas' work for orchestra A impaciência de Mahler (1999), and the world-premiere of the winning work of the SPA / Antena 2 Composition Competition.

On September 10 the New Music Meetings in Vila do Conde come back to the stage of this town's Municipal Theatre with a concert, In Memory of Jorge Peixinho III, by the Lisbon Contemporary Music Group (GMCL) conducted by Pedro Figueiredo. This concert is yet another hommage to Jorge Peixinho (1940-95), composer published by the MIC.PT, on the occasion of his 75th anniversary celebrated throughout this year. The GMCL will thus perform three of his works: Coração Habitado (1966), Remake (1985), and Mediterrânea (1991). The last piece will have its modern premiere, since in the past it was presented only once in the year of its composition, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. The programme also includes works by other musicians in some way connected to Jorge Peixinho: Canto Solar (2010) by Clotilde Rosa, composer published by the MIC.PT; as well as two world premieres, likewise hommages to Jorge Peixinho and composed explicitly for this concert: Fólio III by Alfredo Teixeira and Sobrevivendo-te (2015) by Eduardo Luís Patriarca, another composer published by the MIC.PT.

De Escárnio e Maldizer, is the title of the programme, which the MPMP Ensemble conducted by Jan Wierzba will present on September 30 within the Young Musicians Festival at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. This repertoire, constituting a recreation of four medieval poems by four contemporary composers, includes four premiere performances, two of which were written by the composers published by the MIC.PT: Foi um dia Lopo jograr by Nuno Peixoto de Pinho and Comendador, u m'eu quitei composed by Gonçalo Gato; as well as Foi a cítola temperar by Edward Luiz Ayres d'Abreu and Ai, dona fea, foste-vos queixar by Filipe Melo. On this occasion the MPMP Ensemble will be accompanied by the soloists: Marina Pacheco (soprano) and André Baleiro (baritone). The MPMP Ensemble is a group of variable instrumental set, which since 2012 has been developing a work in collaboration with musicologists and composers, with the aim of rediscovering the music patrimony from the Portuguese speaking countries, both from the past as well as giving emphasis on contemporary repertoire.

This September Amílcar Vasques Dias joins the Composers published by the MIC.PT, and presently the MIC.PT online Score Catalogue includes two of his works: Badim (1992) for two pianos, as well as Em terra (2008) for voice, soprano saxophone and piano. Amílcar Vasques Dias was born in Badim, Mocção, on March 7, 1945. During 14 years he developed his artistic and pedagogical activity at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague in the Netherlands. As pianist he performs his own music and uses improvisation as an expressive tool. His production encompasses chamber, instrumental, vocal or electroacoustic music, symphony orchestra, wind orchestra, a cappella and accompanied choir, multimedia works, as well as music for film and theatre. He has received commissions from various public and private institutions in the Netherlands and Portugal. In parallel to his activity as composer presently he develops fusion projects where the "classical" piano is joined with traditional music, as the Alentejo chant, dances and flamenco. Since 1975 he has been dedicated to the study and recreation of José Afonso's music. Since coming back from the Netherlands, in 1988, Amílcar Vasques Dias has been professor at the Superior Music Schools in Lisbon and Porto, at the Aveiro and Évora Universities, having also been artistic director of the Alentejo Meetings for 21st Century Music.

Nocturna Itinera (2008) for string quartet by Patrícia Sucena de Almeida is one of the works that will represent Portugal at the 2015 edition of the World Music Days of the International Society for Contemporary Music, taking place between September 26 and October 2 in Slovenia. The piece by this composer published by the MIC.PT was selected for the festival in the framework of the Miso Music Portugal's official application as Portuguese Section of the ISCM. It will be presented by the Dissonance Quartet on October 1 at the Slovenian National Theatre of Opera and Ballet. Another composer who will represent Portugal at this Festival co-organized by the Society of Slovene Composers, and who was chosen within the individual application, is Nuno Costa with his piece Pater noster for eight voices a capella.

The Miso Music Portugal and Portuguese Music Research & Information Centre, together with the International Conferedation for Electroacoustic Music CIME/ICEM, where the MIC.PT is member, are organizing the CIME/ICEM General Assembly and the conference, Archiving and Preservation of Electroacoustic Music. During this event, taking place between October 2 and 4 at the O'culto da Ajuda in Lisbon, the participants will present various papers on the above mentioned subject. These presentations will be accompanied by concerts with the Miso Music Portugal's Loudspeaker Orchestra, whose programme will consist of electroacoustic works from the various CIME/ICEM national federations and international members, including pieces by Portuguese contemporary composers. The deadline for the Call for Papers in the context of the APEM CIME/ICEM conference has been extended to September 6. For more information please visit the website, www.misomusic.com.

This September, in the context of the new series Dossiers . Portuguese Composers of the 20th and 21st Centuries, we provide another two online publications – the new edition in Portuguese of the Dossier no. 5 dedicated to Bruno Gabirro and the English version of the Dossier no. 4 dedicated to António Chagas Rosa. The series, Portuguese Composers of the 20th and 21st 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 composed of a short biography, questionnaire/interview or musicological article, catalogue of works with two ordinations (by instrumentation or following the chronological order) and discography.

Prémio Jovens Músicos is an annual event in the area of classical music, an initiative of the Antena 2 – RTP that for almost three decades has been distinguishing new instrumentalists, marking a new generation of Portuguese musicians. This year the Antena 2 and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation give continuation to their collaboration initiated in 2011 in the framework of the PJM, reaching this year its 29th edition. The PJM 2015 is constituted by various phases, having its final in the context of the 5th edition of the Young Musicians Festival, taking place between September 30 and October 2 at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, where the Awards Ceremony takes place on September 30 at 4h00 p.m. The Festival includes the participation of the Gulbenkian Orchestra, at the PJM 2015 Laureates Concert and the Gala Concert of the Young Musician of the Year. Among the musicians and ensembles joining the event one can find: Músicos do Tejo, Sete Lágrimas, Ensemble MPMP, the Stratos Quartett from the Vienna University, Jovem Orquestra Portuguesa, Orquestra Juvenil Geração, Ensemble Juvenil de Setúbal; and various laureates at the previous editions of the PJM.

Amílcar Vasques Dias, Badim (1992)

Amílcar Vasques Dias, Em terra (2008)

Daniel Martinho, Despertar (alternate version . 2015)

Igor C. Silva, Non"/sense%)8$messages#_! (for a nonsense reality) (2012)

Igor C. Silva, Frames #87 (2011)

Igor C. Silva, You Should Be Blind to Watch TV (2013)

Ricardo Ribeiro, Ostinati (2010)