On March 7 at the Centro Cultural de Cascais the Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble conducted by Laurent Cuniot will give premiere performances of two works by composers published by the MIC.PT - Gárgulas d'Arga by Ângela Lopes and Variações sobre Glosa by António de Sousa Dias. Within the same event the Ensemble will also present Miguel Azguime's piece De Part et d'Autre. Additionally, on March 6, the Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble Soloists will give a concert with pieces by Jorge Peixinho, João Pedro Oliveira and Miguel Azguime. The two concerts are organized in the framework of the 3^rd International Forum for Young Composers by the Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble.

Within the FADO(s) project the Performa Ensemble will present in March various new works by Portuguese composers published by the MIC.PT, Canto das Fragas by Cândido Lima (world premiere), Tu és o céu preto que me encaminha by Carlos Marecos (world premiere), as well as pieces by Sara Carvalho, Ângela Lopes, João Pedro Oliveira and Rui Penha. The Performa Ensemble's concerts will be taking place at the Auditorium of the Espinho Academy of Music (March 6), at the Lagos Centre of Culture (March 8), at the Arts and Communication Department of the University of Aveiro (March 25) and at the Superior Conservatory of Music in Vigo within the EXPLURART Festival of Contemporary Music (March 31).

João Pedro Oliveira's new piece, ff (Frozen Fred) for piano, will be premiered on March 19 at the Auditorium of the Music School of the Minas Gerais Federal University (Brazil). This piece will be performed by Duarte Pereira Martins during a concert connected with the presentation of João Pedro Oliveira's monographic CD Mosaic, within the Brazilian Tour of the Ensemble MPMP. The concert's programme will also include other works by João Pedro Oliveira (Intersections and Mosaic), Jorge Peixinho (Cinco pequenas peças) and Clotilde Rosa (Waving), among others.

The work Wind Trio by Clotilde Rosa, composer published by the MIC.PT, will be premiered on March 26 at 07h00 p.m. at the ISEG in Lisbon. The concert with live broadcast on Antena 2 will be performed by the Entre Madeiras Trio composed of Miriam Cardoso on flute, Filipe Branco on oboe and João Nunes on saxophone. Apart from the new work by Clotilde Rosa the concert's programme will also include various pieces by Portuguese and foreign composers, including Elegy II Expanded by Christopher Bochmann, whose scores are also published by the MIC.PT.

The work Constellations by Daniel Martinho will be included in the concert programmes of the Portuguese Symphonic Band during its tour in China. Daniel Dias, Rúben Tomé (trombones), Gonçalo Dias (bass trombone), Sérgio Carolino (tuba) and the Portuguese Symphonic Band conducted by Francisco Ferreira will be performing Constellations during concerts in Hangzhou (March 2), Jiangyin (March 3), Shaoxing (March 5) and Ningbo (March 6). This work was commissioned by the PSB in the framework of the 2nd National Composition Competition promoted by the Portuguese Symphonic Band.

During the 3^rd International Forum for Young Composers by the Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble, the composers António de Sousa Dias and Miguel Azguime, both published by the MIC.PT, will be giving classes and workshops dedicated to Composition and New Technologies connected to music together with Simon Emmerson. The Forum will be taking place between March 2 and 7 at the Centro Cultural de Cascais. Its objective is to encourage the creation and circulation of new music, within a privileged pedagogical space for exchanging aesthetics, ideas and knowledge on various aspects of musical creation.

The MIC.PT has just released news scores by the following Portuguese composers: Nuno Figueiredo (new composer published by the MIC.PT), Bruno Gabirro, Pedro Rebelo and Jonas Runa. Within the series of Didactic Scores we also publish 15 more Workbooks of Inventions by Cândido Lima, part of a vast and original collection of 85 Workbooks for different instruments, constituted by short and abstract compositions and intended for new generations of performers in the framework of curricular programmes of music education.
Presently the MIC.PT Score Catalogue, available online, includes 811 works by 49 Portuguese composers.

The composer and photographer Patrícia Sucena de Almeida, published by the MIC.PT, is coordinator of the initiative, Installation Photography & Sound, organized by the Gil Vicente Academic Theatre and the Artistic Studies Course of the Faculty of Letters at the UC/FLUC. Within this initiative, a seminar open to the public, and followed by Laboratories on Photography, Sound and Creation, will be taking place on March 8 at the Casa das Cadeiras in Coimbra.

Three composers published by the MIC.PT, Clotilde Rosa, Christopher Bochmann and João Madureira, integrate the jury of the 1st International GMCL / Jorge Peixinho Composition Competition. The competition is organized by the Lisbon Contemporary Music Group with the aim of encouraging musical creation and promoting the work of young composers, as well as contributing to the development of contemporary chamber music repertoire. The results will be announced after March 15.

Two new CDs with works by Vítor Rua will be released in March in Porto and Paris. The CD Works II, published by Asoka Records and composed of Vítor Rua's chamber pieces, will be presented on March 27 at the Matéria Prima store in Porto. The album will be available to purchase in the store and on Facebook. Another Vítor Rua's piece Bruit Rose Libre for alto saxophone and percussion is included on the new CD by Daniel Kientzy, Mega Sax, which will be released by the Nova Musica label on March 29 in Paris.

Nuno Figueiredo has, form this month, a new composer's profile on the MIC.PT and he has joined the continuously expanding group of composers with scores published by the Portuguese Music Research & Information Centre.
Born in 1982, Nuno Figueiredo received the Award for Best Portuguese Electroacoustic Piece at the Música Viva Competition 2009 promoted by Miso Music Portugal, for the work The Electronic Sounds of the Birds, and the First Prize at the 5th International Composition Competition in Póvoa de Varzim (2010), for the concert for clarinet and orchestra, Ocaso. His works have been perrformed in Portugal, Slovakia, France, Monaco and Brazil and at the moment he is finishing his Master's Degree in Composition at the University of Aveiro, under the supervision of Vasco Negreiros.
From now on visit Nuno Figueiredo's profile on the MIC.PT.

Between March 13 and 31 the music of various Portuguese composers will be presented during a tour in Brazil, Música Portuguesa em Viagem (Portuguese Music On the Move), organized by the mpmp. In a total of twelve concerts and five conferences this initiative will visit six Brazilian state capitals. The programme includes the presentation of the CD Mosaic, with music by João Pedro Oliveira, and various chamber music concerts with pieces of more than twenty Portuguese composers - from baroque with Carlos Seixas, classical with João Domingos Bomtempo, to various periods of Portuguese 20th century music with Vianna da Motta, Luís de Freitas Branco, Fernando Lopes-Graça or Jorge Peixinho. The special guest of this tour is the soprano Ana Paula Russo who will be accompanied by the pianists Duarte Pereira Martins and Philippe Marques, as well as by the string quartet of the Ensemble MPMP. The tour's programme will also include conferences on the challenges in the framework of production and circulation of art music in the Portuguese-speaking countries, presented by Edward Luiz Ayres d'Abreu.

Convinced that there is a need to counteract the lack of space in Portugal where it is possible to reflect on new music, Arte no Tempo releases a bilingual electronic publication (in Portuguese and English), Musicografias. This new digital journal is designed to promote the work currently being produced by musicians of recognised merit. The first number will be dedicated to the theme of Vienna XX/XXI and its authors include Madalena Soveral, Marie Luise Maintz, Sergio Bové and Christian Scheib, who approach the work of such composers as Alban Berg, Peter Ablinger and Beat Furrer. The 1^st issue of the journal will take place on March 17 at the Culturgest, with the participation of Beat Furrer, who will be debating on the current state of music with the project’s coordinators, Pedro Berardinelli and Diana Ferreira. The discussion will be intertwined with music, from Berg to Furrer, performed by the flautist Stephanie Wagner and the pianist Madalena Soveral.

The first printed issue of the Da Capo Portuguese Music Magazine was presented between February 10 and 12 in Braga, Porto, Coimbra and Lisbon. The Magazine is available to purchase online as well as in several places in Lisbon, Espinho, Porto and Braga. Released online in March 2013, the Da Capo Magazine is a response to all music students, professionals and classical music lovers who look for promotion, news, information and recognition of their work. Both in the printed and online versions of the Da Capo Magazine one can find the most recent information on Portuguese and International music, including a concert agenda, performers, music education and research, interviews and many more.