Composers

Patrícia Sucena de Almeida studied Electroacoustic Music and Composition with the Portuguese composer João Pedro Oliveira at the University of Aveiro (Portugal) and in 1997 she finished her degree in Music Teaching. In 1998 she graduated with a master’s degree in Composition from the University of Edinburgh, as a scholarship holder of the Science and Technology Foundation (Ministry of Education – Portugal), within the 2^nd Community Support Framework. In the same year she started a doctorate programme (still as a scholarship student) in Composition at the City University of London and in 2000 she continued her composition studies at the University of Southampton with the British composer Michael Finnissy, finishing her PhD in 2004. Between 2007-13 she developed a postdoctoral project based on the interaction of music and other media, having created a new concept that characterises works “combining” various means of artistic expression – Transversal Multi Art.

Her portfolio includes some of the following pieces:
– Solitudo (1999) (performed at The International Gaudeamus Music Week 2001, Amsterdam);
– Argumentum (2001) (performed at the Porto 2001 – European Captial of Culture);
– Transfiguratio (2002) (worked out during the workshop of “Cours du Centre Acanthes 2002”, Villeneuve-les-Avignon);
– Mens Sana in Corpore Sano (2003-05) (orchestral version performed at the 3^rd Gulbenkian Workshop for Portuguese Young Composers, Lisbon, 2004);
– Monstrum Horrendum (2003-04) (orchestral version performed at the 2^nd Gulbenkian’s workshop for Portuguese Young Composers, Lisbon, 2003);
– Fatum Hominis (2005) (selected for the ISCM World Music Days/ 23^rd Music Biennale Zagreb 2005, and performed at Ny Musikk 2005, Oslo);
– Silens Clamor (2004) (commissioned by the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse de Lyon for the Académie de Chambre Contemporaine Jeunesse Moderne 2004, performed at Musica 2007, Strasbourg, and at Futuros 1.2, Lisbon, 2008);
– Dulce Delirium (2005) (performed by the Arditti Quartet at the Centre Acanthes 2005, Metz, at the Atlantic Waves 2006, London, at the Festival Internacional de Aveiro and Lisbon, 2007);
– Fati Necessitas (2005) (commissioned and performed by the Lisbon Contemporary Music Grouo, Matosinhos, 2006, and at the IX Semana Cultural da Universidade de Coimbra, 2007);
– Aranea (2006) (commissioned and performed at the Festival Música Viva 2006, Lisbon, and at the XXVI Festival de Música de Leiria, 2008);
– Nocturna Itinera (2008) (performed at the 44^th International Summer Courses for New Music, Darmstadt, 2008, and at the 2^nd Blonay Workshop for Contemporary Quartet Music 2008);
– In Occulto (2009) (performed at Ciclos de Concertos Momentum, Aveiro, 2009, at the New Music Festival [Transit 2009], Leuven, 2009 and at the Concert Series, City University, London, 2010);
– Sublime Volans (2010) (performed at the 25.º aniversário da Miso Music Portugal, Instituto Franco-Portugués, Lisbon, 2010, at the Fórum Internacional Jovens Compositores, Goethe-Institut, Lisbon, 2011, at the Korea Foundation – Cultural Center Gallery, 2011, and at Guimarães Capital Europeia da Cultura 2012);
– Reditus ad vitam (2012) (performed at Do Virtuosismo pianístico de Liszt à multi(n)disciplina do século XXI, Coimbra, 2013);
– Reditus ad vitam II (performed at the Firenze suona Contemporanea, Florence, Italy);
– Instabile Tempus (2016) (performed at the Festival Música Viva, Lisbon, Portugal);
– Vacuum Corporis (2016-17) (performed at the Transit Festival, Leuven, Belgium);
– Desperatio (2016-17) (performed at the City University of London, Londres, UK; SPAutores, Lisbon, Portugal);
- Imaginis umbra est (2018-19) (performed at Reservatório Mãe d’Agua, Lisbon, Portugal);
– (Photography Work) Continuum Simulacrum (2016-17) (dedicated to Michael Finnissy’s Work, The History of Photography in Sound and presented at City University of London, January 2017).

She participated in the IRCAM Académies d’été; the International Summer New Music Courses in Darmstadt (2000 and 2007); the Cours du Centre Acanthes at the Chartreuse de Villeneuve les-Avignon in Metz (2002-05); the 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th Gulbenkian Workshop for Portuguese Young Composers; and a number of other seminars and workshops with composers such as: Emmanuel Nunes, Jonathan Harvey, Luca Francesconi, Hilda Paredes, Gérard Grisey, Brian Ferneyhough, Pascal Dusapin and Luc Brewaeys.

Patrícia Sucena de Almeida has also participated in experimental workshops and concerts with the Arditti Quartet, the pianist Ian Pace,Yutaka Oya and Filip Fak, the Gulbenkian Orchestra, Lisbon Contemporary Music Group, Orchestre lyrique de Région Avignon – Provence, L’Ensemble Itinéraire, Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble, Remix Ensemble Casa da Música, OrchestrUtopica, Ensemble Studio New Music; and conductors like Sylvio Gualda, Sarah Ioannides, Igor Dronov, Christopher Bochmann, Guillaume Bourgogne, Pedro Neves and Pedro Amaral.

IN THE ^ST PERSON, interview with Patrícia Sucena de Almeida conducted by Pedro Boléo (in Portuguese).
Recorded on October 28^th 2019, at the O’culto da Ajuda in Lisbon.

Dossier no. 7 . Portuguese Composers of the 20^th and 21^st Centuries . Patrícia Sucena de Almeida

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Last update: April 27^th, 2020

Title of work	Date	Commissioning body	URL	Town	Country	Notes	Invisible Column 0	Invisible Column
Argumentum - Obniti Adversis	2000	Belém Cultural Center	URL	Lisbon	Portugal	Notes	http://www.ccb.pt/	Comissioned by the cultural program of "Young Portuguese Composers", in the context of Porto 2001 - European Capital of Culture.
Comissioned by the cultural program of "Young Portuguese Composers", in the context of Porto 2001 - European Capital of Culture.
Res Adversae	2004	Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - Music Department	URL	Lisbon	Portugal	Notes	http://www.musica.gulbenkian.pt/
Silens Clamor	2004	Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse de Lyon		Lyon	France	Notes
Fati Necessitas	2005	Lisbon Contemporary Music Group	URL	Lisbon	Portugal	Notes	http://www.gmcl.pt/
Tempus Fugit	2010	Ministry of Culture and Communication of the French Government			France	Notes
Aranea	2006	Miso Music Portugal	URL	Parede	Portugal	Notes	http://www.misomusic.com/

Work	Type	Date	Organization/Event	Local	Town	Country	Performer(s)	Notes	Invisible Column
Imaginis umbra est	Premiere	2019/May/25	Em Louvor da Água (In Praise of Water)	Mãe d'Água Reservoir	Lisbon	Portugal	Júlio Guerreiro · guitar; João Aleixo · voice	Notes
Desperatio (piano piece no. 5)	Premiere	2018/Apr/20	Ian Pace at Fifty - Tributes and Early Modernism	City, University of London	London	Portugal	Ian Pace . piano	Notes
Vacuum Corporis	Premiere	2016/Oct/29	Transit Festival 2016	STUK	Leuven	Belgium	Ian Pace, piano Ben Smith, piano	Notes	film: Daniel Antero http://www.festival2021.be/nodes/archiefconcert/en/finnissy-redhead-ferneyhough-brewaeys-almeida
film: Daniel Antero http://www.festival2021.be/nodes/archiefconcert/en/finnissy-redhead-ferneyhough-brewaeys-almeida
Instabile Tempus	Premiere	2016/May/20	Música Viva 2016 · Non Plus Nectar	O'culto da Ajuda	Lisbon	Portugal	Petter Sundkvist · musical direction Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble	Notes
Tempus Fugit	Premiere	2015/Oct/16		Pollack Hall, McGill University	Montréal	Canada	McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble Guillaume Bourgogne, musical direction	Notes
reditus ad vitam	Premiere	2013/Jan/12		Teatro Académico Gil Vicente	Coimbra	Portugal	Ian Pace, piano Maria Rita Nogueira and Sara Gil Agostinho, dancers Ricardo Correia, actor	Notes
Sublime volans	Premiere	2010/Apr/14	2010 - Miso Music Portugal "25 years" - a week in April	Institut Franco-Portugais	Lisbon	Portugal	Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble, Pedro Neves (conductor)	Notes
In Occulto	Performance	2010/Mar/09		College Building, City University London	London	United Kingdom	Ian Pace (piano)	Notes
In Occulto	Performance	2009/Oct/25		STUK Kunstencentrum	Leuven	Belgium	Ian Pace (piano)	Notes
In Occulto	Premiere	2009/Apr/09	Momentum Concerts Cycle	Aveirense Theatre	Aveiro	Portugal	Ian Pace (piano)	Notes
Aranea	Performance	2008/Sep/20	Miso Music Portugal / Música Viva Festival 2008	Belém Cultural Centre - Luís de Freitas Branco Room	Lisbon	Portugal	Sond'Ar-Te Electric Ensemble: Monika Streitová (flute), Nuno Pinto (clarinet), Suzanna Lidegran (violin), Jorge Alves (viola), Marco Pereira (cello), Ana Telles (piano), Miso Studio (electronics) Pedro Amaral (conductor)	Notes
Aranea	Performance	2008/Jun/26	Orfeão de Leiria, Miso Music Portugal / Leiria Music Festival	José Lúcio da Silva Theatre	Leiria	Portugal	Sond'Ar-Te Electric Ensemble: Monika Duarte Streitová (flute), Nuno Pinto (clarinet), Suzanna Lidegran (violin), Jorge Alves (viola), Marco Pereira (cello), Ana Telles (piano) Pedro Amaral (conductor)	Notes
Silens Clamor	Performance	2008/Feb/14	CCB - OrchestrUtopica / Futuros 1.2	Belém Art Centre - Luís de Freitas Branco Concert Hall	Lisbon	Portugal	OrchestrUtopica: Katharine Rawdon (flute), Nuno Pinto (clarinet), Vitor Vieira (violin), Juan Maggiorani (viola), Guenrikh Elessine (cello) Pedro Pinto Figueiredo (conductor)	Notes
Dulce Delirium	Performance	2007/Oct/27	Belém Art Centre	Belém Art Centre - Small Concert Hall	Lisbon	Portugal	Arditti Quartet	Notes
Dulce Delirium	Performance	2007/Oct/26	Aveiro International Festival	Aveiro University Concert Hall	Aveiro	Portugal	Arditti Quartet	Notes
Silens Clamor	Performance	2007/Oct/06	Samedis de la Jeune Création Européenne	Rhine Palace	Strasbourg	France	Musicians from the CNSMD Lyon Fabrice Pierre (conductor)	Notes
Fati Necessitas	Partial premiere	2007/Mar/03		Gil Vicente Theatre	Coimbra	Portugal	Lisbon Contemporary Music Group: Susana Teixeira (mezzo-soprano), João Pereira Coutinho (flute), Luís Gomes (clarinet), José Machado (violin), Ricardo Mateus (viola), Jorge Sá Machado (cello), Stéphanie Manzo (harp), Francisco Monteiro (piano), Fátima Pinto (percussion) Christopher Bochmann (conductor)	Notes
Dulce Delirium	Performance	2006/Nov/16	Atlantic Waves Festival	Union Chapel	London	United Kingdom	Arditti Quartet	Notes
Aranea	Premiere	2006/Oct/27	Música Viva 2006 Festival	Belém Cultural Centre - Small Hall	Lisbon	Portugal	Ensemble L'Itinéraire Guillaume Bourgogne (conductor)	Notes
Silens Clamor	Performance	2006/Mar/24	4th Gulbenkian Workshop for Young Portuguese Composers	Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - Great Hall	Lisbon	Portugal	Members of the Gulbenkian Orchestra Guillaume Bourgogne (conductor)	Notes
Fati Necessitas	Premiere	2006/Mar/17		Matosinhos Town Hall - Noble Room	Matosinhos	Portugal	Lisbon Contemporary Music Group: Susana Teixeira (mezzo-soprano), João Pereira Coutinho (flute), Luís Gomes (clarinet), José Machado (violin), Ricardo Mateus (viola), Jorge Sá Machado (cello), Francisco Monteiro (piano), Andreia Marques (harp), Fátima Pinto (percussion) Christopher Bochmann (conductor)	Notes
Mens Sana in Corpore Sano	Premiere	2005/Jan/22	3rd Gulbenkian Workshop for Young Portuguese Composers	Culturgest - Auditorium	Lisbon	Portugal	Orquestra Gulbenkian Guillaume Bourgogne (conductor)	Notes
Silens Clamor	Premiere	2004/Jul	Académie de Chambre Contemporaine Jeunesse Moderne 2004	City of the Arts	Chambéry	France	Trainees of the Académie de Chambre Contemporaine Jeunesse Moderne 2004	Notes
Monstrum Horrendum	Premiere	2004/Mar/19	2nd Gulbenkian Workshop for Young Portuguese Composers	Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - Great Hall	Lisbon	Portugal	Orquestra Gulbenkian Guillaume Bourgogne (conductor)	Notes
Transfiguratio	Performance	2003/Mar	Gulbenkian Workshop for Young Portuguese Composers	Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation	Lisbon	Portugal	Gulbenkian Orchestra	Notes	This worshop took place between the 10th and the 21th of March of 2003.
This worshop took place between the 10th and the 21th of March of 2003.
Transfiguratio	Premiere	2002/Jul	Workshop do Centre Acanthes 2002		Avignon	France	Orchestre Lyrique de Région Avignon – Provence Sylvio Gualda (conductor)	Notes	This workshop took place between the 7th and the 22th of July of 2002.
This workshop took place between the 7th and the 22th of July of 2002.
Argumentum - Obniti Adversis	Performance	2001/Sep/18		Serralves Foundation - Auditorium	Oporto	Portugal	Remix Ensemble Sarah Ioannides (conductress)	Notes
Argumentum - Obniti Adversis	Premiere	2001/Sep/16		Belém Cultural Center	Lisbon	Portugal	Remix Ensemble Sarah Ioannides (conductress)	Notes
Solitudo	Premiere	2001/Sep/04		Paradise	Amsterdam	Netherlands	Ensemble Studio New Music of Moscow Igor Dronov (conductor)	Notes	Selected work for the "International Gaudeamus Music Week 2001 - Amsterdam"
Selected work for the "International Gaudeamus Music Week 2001 - Amsterdam"
Memorial do Vácuo	Premiere	2000/Apr/18	Música Viva Festival 2000	Franco-Portuguese Institute	Lisbon	Portugal		Notes
Sexteto	Premiere	1998	II Aveiro 20th Century Music Festival	University of Aveiro - Auditorium	Aveiro	Portugal		Notes

Description of Activity	Designation	Period	Organization	URL	Venue	Town	Country	Notes	Invisible Column
Affiliation with Institutions		1998/Mar/22 - 1998/Mar/27	Music Faculty of Edinburgh University		Bosnia	Edinburgh	United Kingdom	Notes
Performing	Coralist	1997 - 1998	University of Edimburg Choir		University of Edinburgh	Edinburgh	United Kingdom	Notes		Attended as a choir member in several Seminars and Worskshops organized by this University
Attended as a choir member in several Seminars and Worskshops organized by this University

	Type (+ sub-type)	Cover/edition title Document title	Authors	Referring to	Publisher	Date
	Audio Music	Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble · Portuguese Chamber Music of the XXI – Vol. IV  Patrícia Sucena de Almeida · Instabile Tempus		instabile tempus Patrícia Sucena Almeida Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble	Miso Records	2020 2020
	Audio Music	Vacuum Corporis,		vacuum corporis Patrícia Sucena Almeida		2016
	Audio Music	Tempus Fugit,		tempus fugit Patrícia Sucena Almeida		2015
	Audio Music	CADAVRES EXQUIS Portuguese composers of the 21st century  Patrícia Sucena de Almeida		sublime volans Patrícia Sucena Almeida Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble Pedro Neves	Miso Records	2014 2014
	Audio Music	MOMENTUM | Carlos Marecos, João Pedro Oliveira, Ângela Lopes, Petra Bachratá, Patrícia Almeida, Rui Penha, Sara Carvalho, Evgueni Zoudilkine  In Occulto,		in occulto Patrícia Sucena Almeida	Phonedition	2010 2010
	Audio Music	[Memorial do Vácuo]		memorial do vacuo Patrícia Sucena Almeida
	Audio Music	[sem título]		sexteto Patrícia Sucena Almeida
	Audio Music	Argumentum Obniti Adversis		argumentum - obniti adversis Patrícia Sucena Almeida Remix Ensemble Casa da Música
	Audio Music	Spiral of Light Portuguese Music for Strings and Marimba  Dulce Delirium		dulce delirium Patrícia Sucena Almeida	Etcetera	2010
	Audio Music	Monstrum Horrendum		monstrum horrendum Patrícia Sucena Almeida
	Audio Music	Silens Clamor, Versão para ensemble		silens clamor Patrícia Sucena Almeida
	Photos / Images Photograph	Patrícia Sucena de Almeida 2019 Cor		Patrícia Sucena Almeida		2019
	Photos / Images Photograph	Patrícia Sucena de Almeida 2019 Cor		Patrícia Sucena Almeida		2019
	Photos / Images Photograph	Patrícia Sucena de Almeida 2019 P&B		Patrícia Sucena Almeida		2019
	Photos / Images Photograph	Patricia Sucena de Almeida 2019 Cor		Patrícia Sucena Almeida		2019
	Photos / Images Photograph	Patrícia Sucena Almeida (foto nº3)		Patrícia Sucena Almeida
	Photos / Images Photograph	Patrícia Sucena Almeida 1	Perseu Mandillo	Patrícia Sucena Almeida		2004
	Photos / Images Photograph	Patrícia Sucena Almeida 2	Perseu Mandillo	Patrícia Sucena Almeida		2004
	Scores	Patrícia Sucena de Almeida / reditus ad vitam  reditus ad vitam,		reditus ad vitam Patrícia Sucena Almeida	Centro de Investigação & Informação da Música Portuguesa	2013 2013
	Scores	Patrícis Sucena de Almeida / sublime volans  Sublime volans, para um Cadavre Exquis		sublime volans Patrícia Sucena Almeida	Centro de Investigação & Informação da Música Portuguesa	2013 2010
	Scores	Patrícia Sucena de Almeida / In Occulto  In Occulto,		in occulto Patrícia Sucena Almeida	Centro de Investigação & Informação da Música Portuguesa	2013 2009
	Scores	Patrícia Sucena de Almeida / Nocturna Itinera  Nocturna Itinera,		nocturna itinera Patrícia Sucena Almeida	Centro de Investigação & Informação da Música Portuguesa	2013 2008
	Scores	Patrícia Sucena Almeida / Aranea  Aranea, insidiis noctis serenae...		aranea Patrícia Sucena Almeida	Centro de Informação da Música Portuguesa	2007 2006
	Scores	Patrícia Sucena Almeida / Res Adversae  Res Adversae		res adversae Patrícia Sucena Almeida	Centro de Informação da Música Portuguesa	2007 2006
	Scores	Patrícia Sucena Almeida / Fatum Hominis  Fatum Hominis		fatum hominis Patrícia Sucena Almeida	Centro de Informação da Música Portuguesa	2007 2004
	Scores	Patrícia Sucena Almeida / Mens Sana in Corpore Sano  Mens Sana in Corpore Sano		mens sana in corpore sano Patrícia Sucena Almeida	Centro de Informação da Música Portuguesa	2007 2003
	Scores	Patrícia Sucena Almeida / Monstrum Horrendum - versão ensemble  Monstrum Horrendum		monstrum horrendum Patrícia Sucena Almeida	Centro de Informação da Música Portuguesa	2007 2003
	Scores	Patrícia Sucena Almeida / Argumentum  Argumentum - Obniti Adversis		argumentum - obniti adversis Patrícia Sucena Almeida	Centro de Informação da Música Portuguesa	2007 2001
	Scores	Patrícia Sucena Almeida / Transfiguratio  Transfiguratio		transfiguratio Patrícia Sucena Almeida	Centro de Informação da Música Portuguesa	2007 2001
	Scores	Patrícia Sucena Almeida / Solitudo  Solitudo		solitudo Patrícia Sucena Almeida	Centro de Informação da Música Portuguesa	2007 2000
	Scores	Delirium		dulce delirium Patrícia Sucena Almeida
	Scores	Illuminatio		illuminatio Patrícia Sucena Almeida
	Scores	Ludus Aeternus		ludus aeternus Patrícia Sucena Almeida
	Scores	Monstrum Horrendum		monstrum horrendum Patrícia Sucena Almeida
	Scores	Punctum Temporis		punctum temporis Patrícia Sucena Almeida
	Scores	Recordatio		recordatio Patrícia Sucena Almeida
	Scores	Sexteto		sexteto Patrícia Sucena Almeida
	Scores	Umbra		umbra Patrícia Sucena Almeida
	Texts Article	Os Sons que a Arte Tece	Manuel Pedro Ferreira	Patrícia Sucena Almeida
	Texts Article	Glosas | Número 10 | Janeiro de 2014  Música e transdisciplinaridade: apontamentos	Patrícia Sucena Almeida		mpmp - Movimento Patrimonial pela Música Portuguesa	2014 2014
	Texts Article	Glosas | número 11 | Novembro 2014 celebrando a música clássica dos países da língua portuguesa edições mpmp César Guerra-Peixe 100 anos  Música e transdisciplinaridade: apontamentos	Patrícia Sucena Almeida		Movimento Patrimonial pela Música Portuguesa	2014 2014
	Texts Article	Glosas | Número 9 Quadrimestral | Setembro de 2013  Arte da Performance e John Cage	Patrícia Sucena Almeida	Patrícia Sucena Almeida	mpmp - Movimento Patrimonial pela Música Portuguesa	2013 2013
	Texts MMP Interview	Entrevista a Patrícia Sucena Almeida/ Interview with Patrícia Sucena Almeida  Entrevista a Patrícia Sucena Almeida	Miguel Azguime Patrícia Sucena Almeida	Patrícia Sucena Almeida	Centro de Informação da Música Portuguesa	2005 2004
	Texts Other	Dossier n.º 7 . Compositores Portugueses dos Séculos XX e XXI . Patrícia Sucena de Almeida Dossier no. 7 . Portuguese Composers of the 20th and 21st Centuries . Patrícia Sucena de Almeida  Dossier n.º 7 . Compositores Portugueses dos séculos XX e XXI . Patrícia Sucena de Almeida		Patrícia Sucena Almeida	Centro de Investigação & Informação da Música Portuguesa	2016 2016
	Video MMP Interview	Entrevista a Patrícia Sucena Almeida / Interview with Patrícia Sucena Almeida  Entrevista a Patrícia Sucena Almeida / Interview with Patrícia Sucena Almeida	Perseu Mandillo	Patrícia Sucena Almeida	Centro de Informação da Música Portuguesa	2004 2004