The work Frames #87, by Igor C. Silva, will be performed at the World Music Days, in Tongyeong (South Korea), on March 31. The work was selected for the WMD following the official submission of several works by Miso Music Portugal, the Portuguese section of the ISCM (International Society for Contemporary Music), for this Festival. Meanwhile, on March 17 his piece Numb, for saxophone and live electronics will be performed at the Brussels Conservatory (Belgium). Igor C. Silva, composer published by the MIC.PT received in January the "Runners-up in Ossia's 2015-16 International Composition Prize" by the ensemble Ossia New York, with his work You Should Be Blind to Watch TV for ensemble and electronics.

António Pinho Vargas, composer published by the MIC.PT, will premiere his new Stabat Mater on March 19 at 21:30 in Esposende, at the Church of Esposende. The work will be performed by the Children’s Choir of Esposende, with the direction of Helena Venda Lima. Helena Lima is the director of the Esposende Children’s Choir and of the Choir "Ars Vocalis" as well as a professor at Music School of Esposende. The concert also features Diogo Zão, piano, and Carlos Pinto da Costa, violin. The premiere of Stabat Mater by António Pinho Vargas is part of the program of the Holy Week of Esposende.

João Pedro Oliveira has written a piece for the new Fátima Sanctuary organ that will be premiered on March 20. The work, Hu yeshûphekâ rô'sh, will be performed by the organist Olivier Latry. Other works by João Pedro Oliveira will be performed in March in different parts of the world. This composer published by the MIC.PT participates in the concert series "El Laboratorio del Espacio", included in the III International Congress program Espacios Sonoros (in Madrid) - with the presentation of Magma, a work for violin and electronics (2014), on March 4. The concert will take place at the auditorium 400 of the Museo Nacional Reina Sofia Art Centre. On March 17, his work Rust, for viola and electronics, will be performed at the 46th Annual Ball State Festival of New Music, in the USA.

The Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble will give a concert in Munich, Germany. The concert will take place at the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste - The Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, with the support of the Goethe Institut and the Friedrich-Baur Foundation. The program includes three works of Portuguese composers published by the MIC.PT. The Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble will play Pendulum (2012), for ensemble and electronics, by Rui Penha; In Limine (2011), by Ricardo Ribeiro (a comission of CivilCasa and Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble); and a work by Miguel Azguime, De part et d’autre (2011), a comission from the French Ministry of Culture and the ensemble Court-Circuit, a piece for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and electronics. The program also includes works by the German-Iranian Arash Safaian (In Symmetrie), and the Swedish composer Henrik Ajax (Drawing Lines). Under the direction of the conductor Pedro Neves, the concert will be performed by Suzanna Lidegran (violin), Filipe Quaresma (cello), Sílvia Cancela (flute), Nuno Pinto (clarinet) and Elsa Silva (piano). The Sond’Ar-te Ensemble concert has the artistic direction of Miguel Azguime, and Paula Azguime in the sound projection. The computer music design is produced at the Miso Studio.

The Entre Madeiras Trio performs a tribute concert to the composer Clotilde Rosa on Friday, March 11, at 21.30 at the Salão Nobre of the National Conservatory, in Lisbon. The program includes several works of the composer published by MIC.PT, an essential figure of the new music of the twentieth and twenty-first century in Portugal. Among the compositions performed by this wind trio are Impromptu pour Flûte (2000), Éclat du Soleil (1986), Reflexus for saxophonist and Wind Trio. In addition to the pieces of Clotilde Rosa, the trio plays LubramixII: Música quase um doc (2009) by Eli Camargo Jr. The Entre Madeiras Trio is composed of Miriam Tallette Cardoso (flute), Filipe Pereira Branco (oboe) and João Andrade Nunes (saxophone). This ensemble recently recorded an album with contemporary music by Portuguese composers or composers living in Portugal (Entre Madeiras, 2015), edited by mpmp, where we can find the work Wind Trio by the composer Clotilde Rosa.

The composer Gonçalo Gato, published by the MIC.PT, will take part in the London Symphony Orchestra’s "Panufnik Composers Scheme 2016". After having been shortlisted the composer will be allowed to experiment over time and work towards creating a new short orchestral piece to be publicly rehearsed on the 20 April 2017. The Panufnik Composers Scheme is an exciting initiative offering six emerging composers each year the opportunity to write for a world-class symphony orchestra. Other composers taking part in the 2016 "Panufnik Composers Scheme" are Benjamin Ashby, Amy Bryce, Daniel Kidane, Liam Mattison and Donghoon Shin. Each composer will receive tutorials from Colin Matthews (Composition Director), input from Christian Mason (Composition Support), support from LSO players, and open access to LSO rehearsals and concerts, enabling each composer to experiment over time and develop their orchestral writing skills. Meanwhile, Gonçalo Gato is developing a new piece for flute with Ensemble Recherche’s flutist Martin Fahlenbock, which will be premiered on June 10, 2016, in Freiburg, Germany.

This March, in the context of the new series Dossiers . Portuguese Composers of the 20th and 21st Centuries, we provide another online publication - the new edition in English of the Dossier no. 6 dedicated to Christopher Bochmann.
The series, Portuguese Composers of the 20th and 21st , 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.