Works

Wrold New Music Days 2009 selected work

Instrumentation (detailed)

Winds and Brass	Flute (Piccolo), Oboe, Clarinet (Bass Clarinet), Bassoon, Horn, Trumpet in C, Trombone
Percussion	Percussion (4 Suspended Cymbals, Vibraphone, Tam-Tam, Xylophone, Whip)
Keyboards	Piano
Strings (plucked / bowed)	2 Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass

Performer(s)

When I was 18, studying composition in Lisbon, I attended a lecture about the music of Janácek. The lecturer recommended the book Betrayed Testaments by Kundera in order to go through the music of the composer. I was, at that time, writing a piece for flute and piano. I left Lisbon for a couple of days taking the book mentioned with me and some blank paper on which to compose the piece. Since then, Kundera has always been with me. Fortunately all his books are translated to Portuguese, which has allowed me to read everything he has written so far. His books have not only been the main source of inspiration for my music (in an indirect way), but also of vital importance to my development as a person. Thus, this piece is finally my humble homage to this great novelist of the twentieth century. Letter for Kundera is not a piece where I try to describe in music the philosophy of the writer. It is, above all, a way of thank him for his words using the best way I know to express what I feel. Hugo Ribeiro February ‘07

Work	Type	Date	Organization/Event	Venue	Town	Country	Performers	Notes	Inv Row
Carta a Kundera	Premiere	2007/Jun/15	Spitalfields Festival	Schoreditch Church	London	United Kingdom	Manson Ensemble Baldur Brönnimann (conductor)	Notes
Carta a Kundera	Performance	2009/Oct/01	ISCM - International Society for Contemporary Music	Göteborg Concert Hall	Göteborg	Sweden	Gageego!, Pierre-André Valade (conductor)	Notes	World New Music Days selected work
World New Music Days selected work

Documents
	Type (+ sub-type)	Cover/edition title Document title	Authors	Referring to	Publisher	Date
	Radio programmes	Na Outra Margem		carta a kundera Hugo Ribeiro		2009
	Scores	Hugo Ribeiro / Carta a Kundera  Carta a Kundera,		carta a kundera Hugo Ribeiro	Centro de Investigação & Informação da Música Portuguesa	2013 2007