New Music Review Lounge

2026.03.05
Fifty-Fifty Recital, O’culto da Ajuda, Lisbon

On February 14, Trevor McTait performed a viola recital featuring works by Portuguese composers, at O’culto da Ajuda in Lisbon...

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Mariana Vieira, Jaime Reis, Carlos Caires and Hèctor Parra

2026.02.05
Thinking Music Today, Goethe-Institut, Lisbon

Energy, tension, density (and a beautiful climax!)

Pedro Boléo

On January 31^st, the DME Ensemble held a concert that included works by Portuguese composers and a piece by Spanish composer Hèctor Parra...

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New Music Review Lounge is an initiative of Miso Music Portugal and the Portuguese Music Research & Information Centre. It constitutes a forum for open and free critique, where uncompromising opinions, tastes and new tendencies in music can be discussed in both breadth and depth…>> read more

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Participants at the FIP – Festival Itinerante de Percussão 2025

2026.01.07
Festival Itinerante de Percussão 2025, Lisbon

A Festival Where Percussion Thrives

Pedro Boléo

One could simply say that it was a beautiful concert on Tuesday evening at the Museum of the Oriente Foundation. But it wasn’t just any concert...

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Joana Sá’s Interior Monologue

JAKUB SZCZYPA

On the Portuguese contemporary music scene the multidisciplinary projects of Joana Sá – pianist, improviser and composer – constitute, undoubtedly, some of the most original and coherent examples of joining various aesthetics... >> read more

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