Composer and PhD researcher at the FCSH/ Kunstuniversität Graz/ Fondazionne Archivio Luigi Nono and member of the Concrète [Lab] Ensemble, João Quinteiro is In Focus on MIC.PT in March.
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ommissioned by “Teatro Nacional de S. Carlos”, Portugal’s foremost opera theatre. Premiered at Wien Modern Festival, Austria. This piece is inspired in José de Guimarães’s painting, “Regresso ao Lago do Oeste” [Return to the Western Lake], part of the cycle “Serie Chinesa” [The Chinese Series]. The first ideias came to me as I deconstructed the layers of the painting. I’ve tried to create a reading order that articulated itself in time. The final result embodied a sequence of many musical sugestions, translating flashes of imaginary sketches of the painting.