The Música Viva 2016 festival premieres several works by composers published by the MIC.PT in a series of 10 musical meetings between listeners, performers and composers around the contemporary musical creation. Among the premieres are works by Bruno Gabirro, Patricia Sucena de Almeida, Ricardo Ribeiro, Miguel Azguime, João Castro Pinto, Rui Dias, José Alberto Gomes, Vítor Rua... Additionally, the Música Viva 2016 will present recent works by other composers edited by MIC.PT: Filipe Lopes, Igor C. Silva, Sofia Sousa Rocha and Ângela Lopes. In addition to the composers edited by MIC.PT, Música Viva will present many other works by Portuguese and foreign composers, with the presence of great interpreters of various nationalities: the Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble, Mark Lotz, Henrique Portovedo, the Camerata Alma Mater, the ExpressOriente Duo, João Dias and the already emblematic Miso Music Portugal's Loudspeaker Orchestra. The festival will also include two meetings with young composers and performers from the School of Music in Lisbon (ESML) and Castelo Branco Applied Arts School (ESART). The Festival organized by Miso Music Portugal, will take place between the 20th and 28th May in Lisbon, at the O'culto da Ajuda in Belém. The festival is an integrated initiative of promotion and dissemination of contemporary musical creation, especially dedicated to Portuguese composers and performers and the music relationships with new technologies. The festival includes two workshops (one of electroacoustic composition by Adrian Moore and other of sound spatialization by Miguel Azguime) and also fosters a composition contest in order to stimulate new musical creation. The Música Viva Festival is now in its 22nd edition - showing the vitality and diversity of musical creation in Portugal, creating a space of renovation and meeting with the sound metamorphoses of today's music.

A new work of Daniel Schvetz, A Guerra Santa ("The Holy War"), for ensemble of woodwinds and narrator will be premiered on 16 May, at 19:30 in the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (ESML). The composer edited by MIC.PT composed a piece with text by René Daumal, a French surrealist poet who died in 1944. The original text, La guerre sainte, is a prose-poem that was written in 1940, in the beggining of the Second World War. It is a reflection about the "inner war" of the poet and the potency of word and poetry, his "small weapon", in a struggle "within himself". The premiere of A Guerra Santa will be made by Camerata de Sopros Silva Dionísio, under the direction of Alberto Roque, with narration of the poet and performer Nuno Moura. The concert will take place at the Viana da Mota auditorium of the ESML, in Lisbon.

The series of Canções Populares Transmontanas ("Popular songs from Trás-os-montes") by Fernando Lapa, composer edited by MIC.PT, will travel across the country in May and June. On days 13, 14 and 18 May the pieces will be interpreted in the music schools of Braga, Porto and Coimbra. In June they can also be heard in Aveiro and Lisbon, performed by 5G5C, a quintet of guitar teachers from the official schools of music. On May 22, his Canções populares transmontanas will also be presented in its version for string orchestra by the String Orchestra of the Vila Real Conservatory, in the auditorium of this institution, under the direction of Edmundo Pires, a concert included in Musicalvão - Vila Real Music Festival. Fernando Lapa will also give a pre-concert lecture on May 14 at Casa da Música in Porto, in a concert that includes the first symphonies of Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev and Schnittke.

Rui Dias, composer edited by MIC.PT, premiered in Braga, the last day of April, its Urban Algae Folly instalation, open until July 2016. The sound instalation developed by ecoLogicStudio integrates living and digital cultures of microalgae in real time. This kind of installation was first experimented at Expo Milan 2015, and it has been adapted to the context of the city of Braga, working as a "test platform for a future vision of biodigital architecture for the city." The work generates structures and dynamic sonic textures, and explores the notion of sound as an organic entity, with its own life, which transforms, develops and reacts to external elements. Urban Algae Folly is a collaboration between ecoLogicStudio, the GNRation and the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory that through the "Scale Travels" program, intended to cross nanotechnology with the media arts.

Carlos Alberto Augusto designed the sound involvement for the exhibition Territory Surveys: Landscape and Settlement, released in April and open until October this year, at the National Museum of Ethnology. The exhibition puts in dialog multiple artistic and scientific perspectives about Portugal since the late nineteenth century to the present. The composer explained to the MIC.PT that this is not a "background sound", but rather "a complex composition that besides creating a sound environment, is made of sound documents (some of them unique) which have to do with the exhibition theme itself."

A new work for ensemble and electronics by Igor C. Silva, composer published by the MIC.PT, will be premiered in Amsterdam in the 5th of May. The work will be performed by the Trash Panda Collective at The Crypt, in Amsterdam. In the 29th May, Igor C. Silva will make an improvisation with Teresa Matias (flute) at the Splendor, also in Amsterdam. Meanwhile, his work zap_ping, for trumpet, percussion, electronics and video was selected to the ICMC (International Computer Music Conference), which annual meeting will take place in Utrecht, Netherlands, in September.

A new work for cello and doublebass by Clotilde Rosa, will be premiered at Dias da Música Electrónica (DME), in Seia, on the 8th of May. Isabel Soveral will also have a piece performed on the 7th May in the same festival. Jaime Reis, also a composer published by the MIC.PT, will have a premiere of his work Fluxus, Drag. The performers will be the Duo Contracello and the DME Ensemble. Jaime Reis will also have two pieces (Fluxus, Lift e Fluxus, Drag) played in Madrid, May 21, at the El Manicomio, a lab for the audiovisual arts, by Duo Contracello and the indiCtive artists collective.

The work Entr’ata by Sofia Sousa Rocha, for alto saxophone, was selected as a mandatory piece in the Saxophone International Competition “Vítor Santos”, included in the International Saxophone Festival of Palmela. Her work Jogo breve for violin was also selected as a mandatory piece of Level 4 at the 17th Cidade de Fundão International Competition. Meanwhile, her work Por um dia igual, for four hands piano is being broadcast in the channel CMusic. Her piece lugar das águas submersas.... for string orchestra will be performed at the Música Viva festival.

Filipe Lopes, composer published by the MIC.PT, was distinguished at the Athens Animfest 2016, the greek animation film festival, for his original score of Macabre, by Jerónimo Rocha and João Miguel Real. The 2015 portuguese film was distinguished in the category of original music for short film. It was the 11st edition of the Athens Animfest, that took place in Athens (Greece) at the Greek Film Archive.

João Pedro Oliveira won the 2nd award in the Luminico opencall for videos with his work ‘Âphâr, for video and electronics. The composer published by the MIC.PT had another selected work for video and electronics ensemble, Hydatos, for video and electronics. Both works will be performed in several concerts organized by the Luminico ensemble. 'Âphâr was also selected by the Echofluxx festival (Prague), by the 2D or not 2D Animation Festival (USA), and selected for an award by Los Angeles Film Review Independent Film Awards.

Cândido Lima, Sonata sobre temas medievais (1962-1969)

Cândido Lima, HOMENA (1988-1989)

Cândido Lima, Vozes à Luz (1996)

Cândido Lima, NI(Y)NI(Y)ANA - ecos cibernéticos
(2011-2012)