Several works by composers edited by the MIC.PT will be performed in the “Extraordinary Piano” cycle, which will take place every Saturday in June at the O’culto da Ajuda, in Lisbon. The “Extraordinary Piano” cycle is an initiative of Miso Music Portugal, and includes four recitals by four women pianists: Anne Kaasa, Elsa Silva, Ana Telles and Joana Gama. In the four concerts will be presented several piano works of the 20th and 21st centuries, including two premieres of pieces by composers published by the MIC.PT: Descriptions de la Matière (for piano and electronics), by Miguel Azguime, in the recital of Elsa Silva, on June 11, and Letter to Jean-Sébastien Béreau, by Christopher Bochmann, in the recital of Ana Telles, June 18. The recitals also include works by other Portuguese composers, along with emblematic works of the piano repertoire of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. On June 4 Anne Kaasa will play works by Leoš Janáček, Fernando Lopes-Graça, Manuel de Falla, Olivier Messiaen and two pieces by Clotilde Rosa, composer edited by the MIC.PT. On June 11 Elsa Silva proposes a program titled "Piano Alters", with works by John Cage, Arnold Schoenberg, Jorge Peixinho, Filipe Pires and Miguel Azguime. On June 18 Ana Telles proposes a journey that takes the aesthetic universe of Olivier Messiaen as a starting point, interpreting pieces of the composer, alongside works by Jaime Reis, João Pedro Oliveira and Christopher Bochmann (three composers published by the MIC.PT), and piano pieces by Paul Méfano and Jean-Sébastien Béreau. In the last recital, on June 25, Joana Gama will play a work for piano and electronics by Tiago Cutileiro, another composer published by the MIC.PT, next to a piece by Morton Feldman. The concerts take place every Saturday, 4, 11, 18 and 25 June, 9:30 p.m., at the O'culto da Ajuda, and are integrated in the Festas de Lisboa 2016.

Your Trash, for percussion, electronics and video, will be premiered at the Conservatory of Amsterdam (CVA) on the 2nd of June. This new piece by Igor C. Silva, composer edited by the MIC.PT, was created in close collaboration with the percussionist João Braga Simões, who will perform the work. Your Trash is “a very humorous piece about all the trash that we all have in our computers, smartphones, social networks, etc...”, the composer says. For the video, the composer made a public call for contributions to his creation with photographs and moving images, asking people to send "strange things you have in your computers." On June 24 will be interpreted, also in the CVA Amsterdam, Smart-alienation, for small flexible ensemble (led by Francesca Clements), electronics and video. On June 27 his work Numb, for baritone saxophone and electronics, will be played by Rafael Yebra in Tui, in Galicia.

The string quartet Da luz nítida da manhã (On the sharp morning light), by Fernando Lapa, composer published by the MIC.PT will be performed at Museu de Serralves, in Porto on the 4th of June. The work will be performed by the Quarteto de Cordas de Matosinhos. On the 5th and 11th June there will be performances of his Canções populares transmontanas (Traditional songs from Trás-os Montes), in a version for guitar quintet, by the 5G5C quintet. In the 5th of June the pieces will be presented at the Igreja da Misericórdia, in Aveiro. In the 11th of June they will be performed in Lisbon, at the Salão Nobre da Escola de Música do Conservatório Nacional. At the Conservatório de Música do Porto will also be performed pieces for piano by Fernando Lapa (Estudos sobre a luz and Esboços) on the 9th of June, in the Cultural Week of the Porto Conservatory.

A choreography with music by 12 Portuguese composers and by Camille Saint-Saëns will be premiere on June 16 at the Teatro Camões in Lisbon. Among them are the composers published by the MIC.PT Carlos Caires, João Madureira, Carlos Marecos, Daniel Schvetz and António Pinho Vargas. Apart from these, the composition, conceived as a cadavre-exquis (each guest composer will begin its composition at the end of the previous theme, taking it to the next one), includes pieces by Sérgio Azevedo, Eurico Carrapatoso, Andreia Pinto Correia, Nuno Côrte-Real, Pedro Faria Gomes, Mário Laginha and Luís Tinoco. They composed original pieces for the choreography of Victor Hugo Pontes inspired by the music of The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns. The musical director is the conductor Cesário Costa. The work will also be presented in Porto, in the Rivoli Theatre, on the 1st and 2nd of July.

The work Três Prelúdios do Mar (Three Preludes of the Sea), by Carlos Marecos, composer published by the MIC.PT, will be played by Joana Gama at a recital on June 3, in Espinho. The recital includes several pieces of Satie, and also works by Adams, Pärt, Cage and Scriabin. The works of Carlos Marecos, from 1997, were composed after a commission from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation service ACARTE, integrating originally a set of three preludes and three songs for soprano and piano. Joana Gama now plays Três Prelúdios do Mar in this program presented in the Auditorium of the Academy of Music of Espinho.

João Pedro Oliveira, composer published by the MIC.PT, has received unanimous vote as winner of the 2016 international competition Counterpoint with Magma, for electronics and violin. The work was a commission of the Electroacoustic Music Days. Magma was recently recorded on CD and will be launched soon by an italian label. Meanwhile, the work ’Aphâr, for video and electronics received a bronze medal in the Los Angeles Film Review Independent Film Awards and was selected to be presented in several film and music festivals. It will be showned on the 1st of June at Festival 2 visages de la musique électroacoustique (Brussels, Belgium) and in the 2nd of June at the Festival Klang (Montpellier, France)

Christopher Bochmann’s orchestrations performed in Brazil On the 6th of June the orchestrations of 9 Debussy Préludes by Chistopher Bochmann will be performed by the Symphony Orchestra of the Cláudio Santoro National Theatre of Brasília. The orchestrations will be conducted by Cláudio Cohen, at the Teatro dos Bancários, in Brasília. On the 18th June a new piece by Christopher Bochmann (composer published by the MIC.PT) will be premiered at the O’culto da Ajuda, in Lisbon. The work Letter IV (dedicated to the conductor Jean- Sébastien Béreau) will be performed by the pianist Ana Telles, in the cycle “Extraordinary Piano”.

On the 20th and 21st June there will take place the 2nd Seminar on Digital Heritage Presevation, organized by the Portuguese Direcção-Geral do Livro, dos Arquivos e Bibliotecas (DGLAB). The event wishes to go ahead with the thought and discussion that has begun in the 1st Seminar, in September 2013, on the common preservation of digital heritage and the viabilityof building a network. The Portuguese Music Research and Information Centre (MIC.PT) is partner of this network (RPCPD - Rede de Preservação Comum de Património Digital) and will participate in this Seminar with a talk on musical digital heritage preservation.