In April various works by Fernando C. Lapa, composer published by the MIC.PT, will be performed in Portugal and Spain. On April 11 and 12, at the Church of Cedofeita (Porto) and the Capuchin Church (Gondomar), the work Fé (sobre poema de Miguel Torga) will be presented during two solidarity concerts in favor of IPO. On April 27 in Seville, during the 3^rd Convention of the Flute Performers Association of Spain, Luís Meireles and Maria José Souza Guedes will perform Quatro versos de olhar suspenso. Additionally, the composer's work for clarinet and piano, Plural III, integrates the obligatory repertoire of the International Wind Instruments Competition - Terras de La Alette, which will be taking place between April 11 and 15 in Oliveira de Azeméis.

The work for violin and piano Quasi una sonata by António Pinho Vargas will have its third public performance on April 2, at the São Luiz Municipal Theatre in Lisbon, during a concert entitled Portugal of the Past and the Present. The violinist Bruno Monteiro and the pianist João Paulo Santos will perform a programme of 20^th and 21^st century Portuguese music, on the occasion of 40 years of democracy in Portugal.
Additionally on April 13, at the Loulé Theatre, the composer will hold a conference under the topic, Current Problems of Portuguese Music; and during the month of April the Culturgest will release the third edition of his book Cinco Conferências: especulações críticas sobre a história da música do século XX (Five Conferences: Critical Speculations on the History of 20^th Century Music).

The composers Nuno Peixoto de Pinho and Nuno Figueiredo, both published by the MIC.PT, were awarded at the 1^st International GMCL / Jorge Peixinho Composition Competition. The jury, whose members included Clotilde Rosa, Christopher Bochmann and João Madureira, composers published by the MIC.PT, awarded the 1^st Prize in the B Category to Nuno Figueiredo for the piece Memorandum for understading, for flute, clarinet, piano, violin and cello, and the 2^nd Prize in the A Category to Nuno Peixoto de Pinho for Conciliabulu, for mezzo-soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, harp, piano, percussion and electronics. The performance of the pieces and the awards ceremony will be taking place on April 4 and 5 at the Auditorium Joaquim d'Almeida (Montijo) and the Palácio Foz (Lisbon) respectively.

Two composers published by the MIC.PT, Fernando C. Lapa and Carlos Marecos, are part of the jury of the 7^th Póvoa de Varzim International Composition Competition. The Competition, integrated in the Póvoa de Varzim International Music Festival, aims at awarding works by lusophone composers or of other nationalities, residing for more than four years in the lusophone countries. The jury will make a preselection of maximum two final works, which will be announced on April 21 and premiered at the Póvoa de Varzim Festival in July, when the attribution of the final awards will take place.

The work Organa (2001) for ensemble by Pedro Amaral, composer published by the MIC.PT, will have two public performances in April. On April 10 it will be presented at the Konzerthaus Freiburg during a concert of the Ensemble Recherche, which will have a live recording by the German radio station SWR 2. On April 15 Organa will be performed by the Ensemble Contrechamps conducted by Clement Power at the concert entitled Hommage à Emmanuel Nunes. The event will be held at the Studio Ernest-Ansermet in Geneva and it will be recorded by the Swiss radio station Espace 2, and retransmitted during the Musique d'avenir programme.

In March João Pedro Oliveira, composer published by the MIC.PT, received two international awards. For the work Towdah, for flute, bass clarinet, piano, percussion and electronics, the composer received the 1^st prize at the Keyed Up Composition Competition, organized by the Alvarez Chamber Orchestra in London. The second piece, Variations on Ases Tod, was awarded with the second prize at the Edvard Grieg International Composer Competition, whose 18^th edition was dedicated to organ music.

The collection of 85 Workbooks of Inventions by Cândido Lima, whose online edition was initiated last December, is from this month integrally available on MIC.PT. Dedicated to new generations of performers and intended for all kinds of audiences, this collection of small pieces for different instruments, 10 per Workbook, has been conceived to integrate the curricular programmes of music education. The Workbooks of Inventions associate three aspects – the instrumental practice within a new repertoire, the establishment of new listening habits and the experience of new sonorities, new combinations of harmonies, melodies, rhythms, timbres and spaces. This collection integrates the Series of Didactic Scores by Portuguese 20th and 21st century composers, intended for music teachers and students, as well as developed, published and distributed online by the MIC.PT. For more information please visit the MIC.PT online catalogue of Didactic Scores.
In addition to this collection, the MIC.PT also publishes this month other new scores. This includes another new score by Cândido Lima, a score by [ka'mi] and three scores by Helder Gonçalves. Presently the MIC.PT Scores Catalogue, available online for free download, has 826 scores of 49 Portuguese composers.

Two composers published by the MIC.PT, Ricardo Ribeiro and António Chagas Rosa, participate as lecturers in the new cycle of the Omnia Mutantur project, which corresponds with the theme of the first issue of Musicografias, new online publication by the Arte no Tempo. The cycle has been taking place since March 12 at the Museu Arte Nova in Aveiro, on Wednesdays at 9h30 p.m. In the framework of the Omnia Mutantur, on April 2, Ricardo Ribeiro will take upon the present by approaching the repetition in the music of Beat Furrer, while on April 9, to conclude the cycle, António Chagas Rosa will be revisiting the Schönbergian universe.

In the first half of April Duarte Dinis Silva, composer published by the MIC.PT, will give two lectures at the Escuela de Artes Musicales de la Universidad de Costa Rica on the following subjects: Music Technology in Music Education on April 8; and 20^th Century - Modernist Composers (After World War II) on April 9. Additionally, on this day, two of his works will be presented in concert: Jairo, código de barras (2007) for multi-percussion and electronics, performed by Marco Ramirez Mairena; and Cânfora (2008) for vibraphone performed by Juan José R Calvo. The lecture and the concert from April 9 will be repeated on the following day at the Escuela de Música de la Universidad Autonoma de Centro América.

The theme of the next IAMIC (International Association of Music Information Centres) Conference, Tradition and New Music, which will be taking place in October in the context of the ISCM World Music Days Festival in Wroclaw, is closely linked to the 200^th anniversary of Oskar Kolberg (1814-90), Polish ethnographer, folklorist and composer. In this sense the IAMIC announces a call for papers around the theme of tradition in the context of new music: in what ways tradition is present in contemporary music – not only classical contemporary, but also in other genres of today’s musical culture?
Until April 21 the MIC.PT, IAMIC member, is open to receive proposals from researchers interested in reflecting on this subject in the Portuguese context. The abstracts in English, of presentations with planned duration of around 20 minutes, should not surpass 200 characters. After the preselection made by the MIC.PT, the chosen abstracts will be sent to the conference organizers (until April 30). The list of papers and speeches to be presented during the IAMIC Conference will be announced by the end of May. Contribute with your ideas for the presence of Portuguese music during the IAMIC Conference!

The Academia de Amadores de Música celebrates in 2014 130 years of its existence, which will be celebrated throughout the year with several initiatives. Founded in 1884 , this Public Utility Institution is dedicated to the education , promotion and dissemination of music and culture. Over the years the AAM has been responsible for publishing some key works in the field of music pedagogy and research such as the first Portuguese Music Dictionary (Ernesto Vieira) , the second Portuguese Music Dictionary (Fernando Lopes-Graça) , the first Piano Method ( J.A. Vieira ) , the first Method for Solfeggio (Padre Tomás Borba), and in 1950 began the publication of the Gazeta Musical (Musical Gazette). The AAM also sponsored the historic Sonata concert series, from 1941 to 1961, that played a key role in promoting contemporary music. Tomás Borba , Vianna da Mota , Guilhermina Suggia, Óscar Silva, Luís de Freitas Branco, Louis Saguer and Fernando Lopes-Graça, are only some of key figures in Portuguese culture who were related to the Academia.
The programme of the anniversary concert, which took place on March 18 at the Teatro da Trindade in Lisbon, included works by two composers published by the MIC.PT, João Madureira and Carlos Marecos, as well as music by Eurico Carrapatoso, Alfredo Keil, Mário Laginha, Fernando Lopes-Graça and Emmanuel Nunes, among others.