BRUNO GABIRRO "IN FOCUS" ON MIC.PT IN SEPTEMBER
This month the In Focus presents a Questionnaire / Interview to Bruno Gabirro, composer whose scores are published by the mic.pt and who this December celebrates his 40th anniversary. Bruno Gabirro studied Violin at the Academia de Amadores de Música de Lisboa and then Composition at the Lisbon Superior School of Music. Since 2003 he has participated in the Composition Seminars at the Gulbenkian Foundation, conducted by Emmanuel Nunes. In 2008 he received his Master's Degree in Composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London where he worked with Peter Maxwell Davies. In the same year he was winner of the Eric Coates Prize for Composition. In 2006 and 2011 he was Composer-Resident at the Lab for Electroacustic Creation of the Miso Music Portugal. In his music Bruno Gabirro valorizes, above all, the idea of discourse as "the active reason, and vital energy, which animates everything." Silence, repetition and live electronics are other means, which this composer has incorporated into his musical language. "My silences are (…) rather complex objects within their simplicity and in the relations which they establish; they are silences with sound (…) [whereas] (…) live electronics (…) puts reality inside music, materializing it in the instruments…" says Bruno Gabirro in the September In Focus section of the mic.pt.

MIC.PT AT THE 1st SEMINAR ON COMMON PRESERVATION OF DIGITAL PATRIMONY
On September 19 and 20 the mic.pt team will participate in the 1st Seminar on Common Preservation of the Digital Patrimony organized by the Direcção-Geral do Livro, Arquivos e Bibliotecas. During the afternoon session on September 19, the mic.pt will make a presentation on new ways of preservation of the musical patrimony.

Arte Eletroacústica is a radio programme presented, directed and produced by Miso Music Portugal and the Portuguese Music Research & Information Centre for the Antena 2 National Radio, in conjunction with the Ars Acustica group, of the European Broadcasting Union. Every month, fortnightly on Saturdays at 1 a.m., Arte Eletroacústica presents to its listeners an art which constitutes the pulse of the future, making use of new technologies, interactivity and multimedia, giving them uncommon auditory sensations and letting them rediscover the radio as a platform for new aesthetic experiences.

The latest programmes are already available on-line:
>> August 3 - Sound Walk / Sound Garden 2012 - 3^rd part
>> August 17 - Polish Radio Experimental Studio Archives (Bôłt Records) - 2^nd part
>> August 31 - Electroacoustic Composition Competition - Música Viva - 1^st part

Arte Eletroacústica in September:
>> September 14 -Electroacoustic Composition Competition - Música Viva - 2^nd part
>> September 28 -Electroacoustic Composition Competition - Música Viva - 3^rd part

A LAUGH TO CRY
World-premiere of the opera "A Laugh to Cry" by Miguel Azguime, on September 27 at 19h30 at the Praga Koneser Center, during the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music; commission by the Warsaw Autumn Festival with the friendly support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. A co-production of the Warsaw Autumn Festival (Poland), Norrbottensmusiken / Norrbotten NEO (Sweden), São Luiz Municipal Theatre (Portugal) and Miso Music Portugal.

EUROPEAN COMPETITION FOR LIVE ELECTRONIC MUSIC PROJECTS 2013
The finalist works of the 6th European Competition for Live Electronic Music Projects, organized by the ECPNM – European Conference of Promoters of New Music, will be performed on September 7 by Remy van Kesteren (harp) during the Gaudeamus Musiekweek 2013. The finalist works include "Do Desenho e do Som #3" by Filipe Lopes. The competiton is a co-production with Miso Music Portugal.
The Gaudeamus Musiekweek 2013 programme also includes the work "The Bird in the Garden" by Fátima Fonte, created within the Young Composers Meeting.

MIC.PT SCORE CATALOGUE
The online edition and distribution of scores is one of the main focuses of the Portuguese Music Research & Information Centre. Presently there are 713 scores by 46 composers available for download, among which 7 are by Bruno Gabirro, in September the composer In Focus on the mic.pt. To browse the complete list of the scores published by the mic.pt consult our online catalogue.

Bruno Gabirro mar >> see score

Bruno Gabirro Keep Going >> see score

Bruno Gabirro Julia Conesa Conesa >> see score

Christopher Bochmann A Lua Brilha >> see score

Christopher Bochmann Ama, bebe e cala >> see score

Christopher Bochmann A Magia do Tempo >> see score

Seara Nova Magazine
	article by Miguel Azguime, Da urgência da arte Edition: Associação Intervenção Democrática - ID

Luís Tinoco Horn Concerto horn and ensemble August 3, Rose Theatre, Memphis, United States of America Abel Pereira, horn Eroica Ensemble Michael Gilbert, conductor >> see work

Vasco Mendonça The House Taken Over soloists and ensemble July 6, Grand Saint-Jean, Aix-en-Provence, France Etienne Siebens, conductor Oliver Dunn, brother Kitty Whately, sister Orchestre Asko | Schönberg >> see work

Orquestra XXI - 1st TouR
Established in 2013, the Orquestra XXI is a new project which unites around 50 young Portuguese musicians who reside abroad. The project has a double objective - to maintain a strong connection between these young musicians and their country as well as to bring music to audiences, as diversified as possible. Meeting in Portugal to work and present around three programs a year, the Orquestra XXI will also receive for internship a group of young students form conservatoires and national music schools, giving them the opportunity to work in the context of a professional orchestra. Between September 4 and 7 the Orquestra XXI conducted by Dinis Sousa and with the participation of Susana Gaspar will realize its 1st tour, at the São Martinho de Tibães Monastery, Casa da Música where the Orchestra is realizing a residency, at the Batalha Monastery and at the Belém Arts Centre. The programme of the tour will include works by Manuel Durão and Fernando Lopes-Graça, among others.

SPAUTORES / ANTENA 2 COMPOSITION AWARD
The jury of the SPA/Antena 2 Composition Award assembled at the Superior School of Music and Performing Arts in Porto, chaired by the conductor Pedro Neves and by the composers Carlos Caires and Carlos Azevedo decided unanimously to attribute the SPA/Antena 2 Composition Award to João Ceitil for the piece "Prece Em" (pseudonym "Ivy Borzoi"). The Honorary Mention was attributed to Daniel Tadeo da Mata (pseudonym "Lego"). The winning work will be presented at the Gala Concert of the Young Musician's Award (Prémio Jovens Músicos) transmitted directly by the Antena 2 and RTP 2.

2nd PRIZE FOR JOÃO PEDRO OLIVEIRA AT THE DESTELLOS COMPETITION
João Pedro Oliveira's piece "Vox sum vitae" received the 2nd prize in the "Mixed Media" category at the 6th International Competition for Electroacoustic Composition and Video-Music organized by the Destellos Foundation.