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IN MAY VITOR RUA IS THE MIC.PT COMPOSER IN FOCUS
In May the mic.pt composer “In Focus” is Vítor Rua – improviser, instrumentalist and video maker. Always following his own path he began as a rock musician, but gradually moved towards the circles of new music. As musician he is interested in practically every music style, which nowadays remains at the composers’ disposal. In his work he often uses irony in order to deconstruct traditional music forms and make comments on contemporaneity (it is worth mentioning that Vítor Rua is a regular facebook user). This year Vítor Rua celebrates his 50th anniversary. His works are edited and published by the mic.pt – at present there are 60 scores available for investigation and performance. Visit the mic.pt website and get to know the work of Vítor Rua, almost the Portuguese Frank Zappa.

  

Miguel Azguime, De part et d'autre
Miguel Azguime's new work for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and live electronics commissioned by the French Ministery of Culture. Was premiered on the 14th of May in Paris at the Radio France music season by the Ensemble Court-Circuit conducted by Laurent Cuniot.
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Fernando Lapa, Plural XI
Work for viola and piano, premiered on the 30th of April at the D. Diogo de Sousa Museum Auditorium, in Braga, by Lourenço Sampaio (viola) and Maria José Souza (piano). This concert was entirely dedicated to Fernando Lapa.
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Sérgio Azevedo, From the top of the hill
Work for ensemble by Sérgio Azevedo was premiered on the 3rd of May at the Casa da Musica in Oporto by the soloists of the Remix Ensemble, José Fernando Silva (oboe), Trevor McTait (viola), António Augusto Aguiar (doublebass) e Jonathan Ayerst (piano).
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Sérgio Azevedo, 6 Pequenas Peças para Guitarra
This new 6 small works for guitar were premiered on the 6th of May by Julio Guerreiro at the Agueda Guitar Week.
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Andreia Pinto-Correia, ... e murmurem vossas bocas
Andreia Pinto-Correia's new work was premiered on the 10th of May in the New England Conservatory Series Concert, conducted by Malcolm Peyton.

Pedro Amaral, Etude II - sur les colorations
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Pedro Amaral, O Sonho
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Pedro Amaral, Transmutations
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C. Bochmann, Lacrimae
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Manuel Pedro Ferreira, The Mother of God
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João Madureira, Par
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Clotilde Rosa, Quiet Fire
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Clotilde Rosa, The Fancy Harp
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Clotilde Rosa, Contrastes
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Vitor Rua, Stress
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Vitor Rua, Etaoin
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1ST INTERNATIONAL FORUM FOR YOUNG COMPOSERS
In order to stimulate the creation and circulation of new musical works the Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble and Goethe Institut in Lisbon are organizing the first edition of the Sond’Ar-te International Forum for Young Composers, which will take place between May 17th and 20th 2011 at the Goethe Institute in Lisbon.
The Forum’s objective is to give young composers (up to 35 years old) an opportunity to create and present their work in public. The organizers also wish to create a privileged space for experience and ideas exchange between musicians from different countries.
The Forum’s first edition will count with the participation of young creators residing both in Portugal and Germany. A reading panel, constituted of Siegfried Mauser (pianist and director of Musikhochschule in Munich), António de Sousa Dias (composer and former adjunct at the Lisbon Superior School of Music), Miguel Azguime (composer and artistic director of the Sond'Arte Electric Ensemble), Pedro Neves (conductor) and one Sond’Ar-te member, selected the following 5 works: "Linea de Vacio" by Abel Paúl (Spanish composer at residence in Berlin), "Pensamentos Perdidos" by Ana Seara (Portugal), "Configurazioni" by Gonçalo Gato (Portugal), "Flipbook" by Igor Silva (Portugal) and "P(S) alpha" by Luc Doebereiner (Germany).
These works will be presented at a concert on May 20th 2011 at 7 p.m., at the Goethe Institute Auditorium in Lisbon. The concert will be preceded by a conversation with the 5 participating composers.

PERFORMA' 11 - CONFERENCE OF PERFORMANCE STUDIES
The Department of Communication and Art of the University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal) will host PERFORMA’11, a conference on performance studies, from May 19th to 21st, 2011. This conference seeks to generate and present new perspectives on musical performance through interdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue. This edition of Performa will focus on the following themes:
Performance and memory
Performance and body
Performance and gender
The conference will also include panels on psychology of performance, philosophy and performance, performance practice, music pedagogy, musicology, ethnomusicology and performance analysis.
The keynote speakers will be Prof. Richard Taruskin, from the University of California (Berkeley), and Prof. Thomas Turino, from the University of Illinois.