JORGE PEIXINHO IN FOCUS ON THE MIC.PT IN MAY

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Jorge Peixinho In Focus oN THE MIC.PT During May

In 2015 Jorge Peixinho would have been 75 years old... He was a unique figure in Portuguese music of the second half of the 20^th century, having been one of the predecessors when it comes to Portugal's opening to the music avant-garde. His solid academic education was complemented with a great creativity, which resulted in an output not only of considerable dimensions, but also profoundly varied and politically important.
When it comes to his concept of "rigour and freedom", Jorge Peixinho used different techniques and approaches, having always cultivated a reflection on his own path. The catalogue of his works encompasses diverse genres - choir music, chamber and solo music, including some pieces with electronics, electroacoustic music, works for orchestra with or without soloists, as well as music for theatre, cinema and multimedia. His influence has been wide; composers such as Clotilde Rosa, Paulo Brandão or Isabel Soveral, among many others, owe him a decisive impulse within their artistic evolution.
In 1970, in collaboration with some Portuguese musicians, he founded the Lisbon Contemporary Music Group, dedicated to the promotion of contemporary music, including a vast repertoire by younger composers. In this sense the ensemble performed innumerable first auditions of works by Portuguese composers. In the introduction to the book Jorge Peixinho. Escritos e Entrevistas (Jorge Peixinho. Writings and Interviews; Porto/Lisboa 2010, p. 11; tr. JSz), Paulo de Assis writes: “precocious talent, wanderer around the great, postwar, European avant-garde centres (…), Jorge Peixinho always presented a firm and tenacious will to transform the musical environment that embraced him, even when the circumstances and the results were being adverse."

activities of the composers published by the mic.pt

António Chagas Rosa'S Lumine Clarescet PremiereS in Toulouse

Lumine clarescet for 18 voices is a work commissioned by the chamber choir Les Éléments de Toulouse to António Chagas Rosa, composer published by the MIC.PT. It will be premiered by this ensemble on May 5 at the Toulouse Cathedral during a concert dedicated to Spanish and Portuguese polyphony from yesterday and today. "It is an ensemble of 18 solo voices, for which I am experimenting with spatial techniques, involving sound rotation around the altar of the Toulouse Cathedral", reveals António Chagas Rosa in the Questionnaire/Interview, published in February in the In Focus section of our website. During the months of June and July Lumine clarescet will be presented at various concerts in France, as well as in Portugal, on July 24, at the Cistermúsica Festival in Alcobaça.

The State of the Nation I and II at Casa da Música

On May 12 an 16 the Remix Ensemble and the Porto Symphony Orchestra Casa da Música, conducted by Pedro Neves and Takuo Yuasa respectively, dedicate two programmes to commissions to Young Composers in residence at Casa da Música since 2009. The State of the Nation I and II are two concerts which will be taking place at Sala Suggia and where it will be possible to listen to works by these two composers published by the MIC.PT, Daniel Martinho and Ângela da Ponte, as well as by Marco Barroso, Luís Cardoso, Vasco Mendonça, Daniel Moreira, Ana Seara and Igor C. Silva. In eight years of artistic residencies at Casa da Música, the legacy of the new generation of Portuguese composers shows the diversity of approaches and the openness to different aesthetic currents as one of the most striking signs of our time.

Works of Portuguese Women-Composers by the Performa Ensemble

Between April 18 and May 4 the Performa Ensemble is on tour in Brazil presenting works composed in the 20^th and 21^st centuries by Portuguese women-composers, including various creators published by the MIC.PT: Constança Capdeville, Sara Carvalho, Ângela Lopes, Ângela da Ponte, Clotilde Rosa and Isabel Soveral; as well as Berta Alves de Sousa and Ana Tavares. This project includes the participation of Jorge Correia (flute), Helena Marinho (piano) and Sara Carvalho (lectures and commentaries), and has already been presented in Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, João Pessoa and Natal. The last event will be taking place on May 4 in Belém at the Carlos Gomes Institute. All the concerts have been complemented with masterclasses and lectures, promoting music by Portuguese women-composers.

Conversations with Portuguese Composers #10

Clotilde Rosa, composer published by the MIC.PT, will be the following protagonist at the cycle Conversations with Portuguese Contemporary Composers, organized by the Atelier de Composição, and which will be taking place on May 16 at 5h00 p.m. at the Gato Vadio Bookshop in Porto. Isabel Soveral, another composer published by the MIC.PT and the cycle's guest of the previous March session, will be now moderating this meeting with one of the most important figures of Portuguese contemporary music culture. Conversas com Compositores Portugueses Contemporâneos is a cycle of meetings which aims at rising awareness on "who are, how do they think of music, and what are the inspirations" of Portuguese contemporary composers.

PREMIERE of Cândido Lima's work in Vila do COnde

Another event within the New Music Meetings at the Municipal Theatre in Vila do Conde will be taking place on May 17. This time the pianist Ana Telles will premiere the work ETHNON-canto do paraíso by Cândido Lima, composer published by the MIC.PT. The event's programme will also include works by Jorge Peixinho, João Pedro Oliveira and Eduardo Luís Patriarca, composers published by the MIC.PT; as well as by the winners of the Nano Músicos Electroacústicos competition. Co-organized by the Dias de Música Electroacústica Festival this meeting will also include the participation of Jaime Reis (electronics). New Music Meetings in Vila do Conde is a cycle of events with artistic direction by Eduardo Luís Patriarca.

Cycle of Talks: Photography and Multimedia

Patrícia Sucena de Almeida is one of the composers published by the MIC.PT particularly interested in transversality between the arts, who together with Diogo Marques de Oliveira conceived the programme of Fotografia e Multimédia (Photography and Multimedia). It is a cycle of 3 conversations in 3 Portuguese cities (Lisbon, Coimbra and Porto), occupying 3 spaces (O'culto da Ajuda, Galeria Santa Clara, Mira Forum) and inviting 3 authors to present their works. This project is organized by Prinst (Recantos Plurais) and Húmus, and it intends to promote various works by Portuguese and foreign authors, approaching photography in the interaction with different arts. The first meeting will take place on May 9 at the O'culto da Ajuda in Lisbon.

NEWS SCORES ON THE MIC.PT

The MIC.PT publishes and provides online eight new scores by three Portuguese contemporary composers: Ludic I (2001) for guitar and piano and Ludic XIII (2005) for guitar and Portuguese guitar by Daniel Schvetz; Four fragments (2014) for instrumental ensemble, Letter III (2013) for piano, Letter IV (2014) for piano, Ode IV (2014) for mezzo-soprano, alto saxophone, piano and string quartet, and Ode V (2015) for soprano, clarinet and piano by Christopher Bochmann; as well as knowledge is but oblivion (2015) for solo flute by Eduardo Luís Patriarca. The score edition by the MIC.PT aims at distributing scores of works by Portuguese composers, making them available online and thus promoting the knowledge and choice of Portuguese music among performers, ensembles, programmers and researchers. The MIC.PT online Score Catalogue presently includes 903 works by 52 Portuguese composers.

PERFORMANcE IN PORTO WITH MUSIC BY FERNANDo C. LAPA

Presenting the music composed by Fernando C. Lapa for Bando dos Gambozinos during the decades of working together, the performance Os que se tocam, taking place on May 29 and 30 at the Helena Sá e Costa Theatre in Porto, is the Gambozino's hommage to this composer published by the MIC.PT. In the event's programme one can find various of his works for voices, instruments and Orff instruments, with texts by Matilde Rosa Araújo, Manuel António Pina, Luísa Ducla Soares and Regina Guimarães. The performance's prorgamme will include an animation based on the cantata Para a ilha do tesouro by Fernando C. Lapa with text by Álvaro Magalhães, and realized by Fernando Saraiva (Anilupa) with the Gambozinos' children and youth.

Reedition of the opera Os Dias Levantados By António Pinho Vargas

The opera Os Dias Levantados by António Pinho Vargas, with libretto by Manuel Gusmão, will now have its reedition under the Naxos label. The recording was realized in 2002 by José Fontes at the Culturgest in Lisbon and it was firstly released in 2003 by EMI-Classic, under the licence of this composer published by the MIC.PT. This performance includes the participation of various soloists as well as of the Choir of the São Carlos National Theatre and the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra conducted by João Paulo Santos. It is available for the public from May 1 on various digital platforms provided by the Naxos. The opera Os Dias Levantados by António Pinho Vargas was commissioned by the Expo '98, and its premiere took place on April 25 of the same year.

Ricardo RibeirO Closes the Season of Music at the Museum

Organized by the Arte no Tempo and closing the 2014/15 season of Music at the Museum, the cycle Novas Músicas was initiated on April 23 at the New Art Museum in Aveiro. In this context, on May 14, Ricardo RIbeiro, composer published by the MIC.PT, will make a presentation under the theme Da saturação em R. Cendo e F. Bedrossian. The main objective of the project Música no Museu is to encourage listening of 20^th and 21^st century music, connecting it with the precedent musical tradition, and allowing the audience to have a closer contact with composers, performers and musicologists dedicated to the music of our time. On May 7 another meeting within this cycle will be led by Pedro Berardinelli approaching the subject, Pierluigi Billone and Aureliano Cattaneo.

música hoje on antena 2

May 9 and 23, at 1h00 a.m.
Música Viva 2015 Festival
The Música Viva Festival completes this year its 21^st edition, which will be taking place between May 21 and 30 at O'culto da Ajuda in Lisbon. During the two Música Hoje (Music Today) emissions in May, we will be accompanying the programme kaleidoscope of this event, which for 21 years has been affirming the richness and vitality of contemporary music creation, always highlighting Portuguese music and the relations between music and technology.

new mic.pt scores

Christopher Bochmann, Four fragments (2014)

instrumental ensemble

Christopher Bochmann, Letter III (2013)

Christopher Bochmann, Letter IV (2014)

Christopher Bochmann, Ode IV (2014)

mezzo-soprano, alto saxophone, piano and string quartet

Christopher Bochmann, Ode V (2015)

soprano, B-flat clarinet and piano

Eduardo Luís Patriarca, knowledge is but oblivion (2015)

Daniel Schvetz, Ludic I (2001)

guitar and piano

Daniel Schvetz, Ludic XIII (2005)

guitar and Portuguese guitar

Open Thursdays

Patrícia Sucena de Almeida
May 7, 9H30 p.m.
O'CULTO DA AJUDA

At this Open Thursday we will be talking with Patrícia Sucena de Almeida... At these monthly meetings we gather to listen to music, to talk about freedom, creativity, innovation, resistance and art. It is a unique opportunity to get to know the compositional and creative thought of some of the composers of our time!

NEW cd ON THE mic.pt

FAdos . Performa Ensemble

works by Alexandre Delgado, Cândido Lima, Sara Carvalho, João Pedro Oliveira, Ângela Lopes, Rui Penha, Carlos Marecos

performed by Performa Ensemble: Ana Barros (soprano), Helena Marinho (piano), Jorge Salgado Correia (flute), Luís Carvalho (clarinet), Marco Pereira (cello), Nuno Soares (violin), Pedro Rodrigues (guitarr)

Edition: Numérica

Recent Premieres

Nuno Figueiredo
Memorandum for understanding
April 4, Joaquim d’Almeida Auditorium, Montijo

Lisbon Contemporary Music Group
Adriano Martinolli d'Arcy, musical direction

Daniel Moreira
Cinco Poemas da Água
April 4, Joaquim d’Almeida Auditorium, Montijo

Lisbon Contemporary Music Group
Adriano Martinolli d'Arcy, musical direction

Nuno Peixoto de Pinho
Conciliabulu
April 4, Joaquim d’Almeida Auditorium, Montijo

Lisbon Contemporary Music Group
Adriano Martinolli d'Arcy, musical direction

Pedro Amaral
Scherzi
April 10, Casa da Música, Porto

Porto Symphony Orchestra Casa da Música
Takuo Yuasa, musical direction

Daniel Moreira
Cai uma rosa…
April 11, Joaquim Benite Municipal Theatre, Almada

MPMP Ensemble . Jan Wierzba, conductor

Eurico Carrapatoso
Vita Brevis
April 19, São Carlos National Theatre, Lisbon

Portuguese Symphony Orchestra
Joana Carneiro, chief conductor
Choir of the São Carlos National Theatre
Giovanni Andreoli, chief conductor

JOÃO MADUREIRA
Coração
April 25, 28^th Music Biennale, Zagreb, Croatia

Lisbon Contemporary Music Group
Adriano Martinolli d'Arcy, musical direction

Eduardo Luís Patriarca
Kado
April 26, New Music Meetings in Vila do Conde

Jorge Lima, percussion

José Alberto Gomes
Tríptico
April 26, New Music Meetings in Vila do Conde

Jorge Lima, percussion

Portuguese Composers published by the MIC.PT
at the Música Viva 2015 Festival

This year the programme of the Música Viva Festival, which will be taking place between May 21 and 30 at O’culto da Ajuda in Lisbon, proposes the broadest ever representation of Portuguese music - 50 pieces by Portuguese composers, within the approximately 70 works of its complete programme, ranging from acoustic, mixed to purely electroacoustic. In this sense during the 18 concerts constituting the Música Viva 2015 one will have the opportunity to listen to works by 20 Portuguese composers published by the MIC.PT, that is: António Chagas Rosa, António de Sousa Dias, Bruno Gabirro, Cândido Lima, Carlos Caires, Carlos Marecos, Daniel Schvetz, Eduardo Luís Patriarca, Filipe Lopes, Isabel Soveral, João Pedro Oliveira, Jorge Peixinho, José Luís Ferreira, Luís Antunes Pena, Miguel Azguime, Paulo Ferreira-Lopes, Ricardo Ribeiro, Rui Dias, Rui Penha and Sara Carvalho. Giving evidence to the vitality of new music creation, the Festival’s programme embraces 18 world-premieres, not to mention the numerous Portuguese first performances. The Música Viva 2015 constitutes a vibrant collection of ideas and aesthetics, promoting new ways of expression and creating opportunities for emerging artists. Here one should also highlight the concert integrated in the ESML Composition Week, with pieces performed and composed by the students of the Lisbon Superior School of Music (ESML), the Évora University (UE) and the Superior and Autonomous Institute for Polytechnic Studies (IPA).
Apart from the above-mentioned concerts the Festival’s programme will also include installations, dance and video performances, poetry, as well as courses, workshops and meetings. Additionally the Música Viva International Composition Competition, the hosting of EASTN (European Art Science Technology Network) and the partnership with MINSTREL, will provide close collaborations with various artists.
Once again the Música Viva constitutes an integrated initiative, focused on the dissemination of contemporary music creation, simultaneously being committed to Portuguese composers and the relations of music with technology.

MIC.PT HIGHLIGHTS

Dossiers
Portuguese Composers of the 20^th and 21^st Centuries

This May, in the context of the new series Dossiers . Portuguese Composers of the 20^th and 21^st Centuries, we provide another online publication - the new edition in Portuguese of the Dossier no. 4 dedicated to António Chagas Rosa.
The series, Portuguese Composers of the 20^th and 21^st Centuries, intends to promote the work of Portuguese contemporary composers, constituting an “introspection” in the work of every composer, being simultaneously an encouragement to explore and (re)discover their music, as well as their aesthetic and philosophic reflection. Each Dossier is built of a short biography, questionnaire/interview or musicological article, catalogue of works with two ordinations (by instrumentation and chronological order) and discography.