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Enrique X. Macías In Focus on the MIC.PT in January
The first In Focus in 2016 is dedicated to Enrique X. Macías, Galician composer published by the MIC.PT who maintained privileged relations with the Portuguese music environment and who left us 20 years ago in November 1995, at the peak of his creativity, at the age of 37.
Enrique X. Macías’ work and trajectory constitute an exemplary and profound gesture of rigour and freedom, allied with a constant revision of personal authenticity and cohesion. The composer was born in Vigo in 1958. His music education and training was mainly self-taught, and this approach proved to be vital in his work. Throughout his path he was distinguished with numerous awards, distinctions and honourable mentions; his music was recorded for various radio stations in different parts of Europe, having been programmed at relevant events, festivals and concert halls all around the world and focusing on new music.
In Enrique X. Macías’ music one doesn’t find any revolutionary spirit, but rather, yes, an honest and disquiet personality. He was committed to the artistic language of his time, drawing on the influences of structuralism, new complexity and the French school in the straight and clairvoyant line of Pierre Boulez and Tristan Murail. Presently, the major part of his work is available on the MIC.PT website run by the Portuguese Music Research & Information Centre. Its online catalogue of scores includes Enrique X. Macías’ 20 pieces – solo works, chamber music and works for large orchestra.
This January visit our In Focus section, through which we intend to contribute to the rediscovery of the music by Enrique X. Macías, thus his work continues absent in the repertoires of performances dedicated to the music of our time, and remains in the expectation for an urgent attention.
activities of the composers published by the mic.pt
MUSIC BY PORTUGUESE COMPOSERS AT CASA DA MÚSICA
Portugal XXI is a concert on January 23 at Casa da Música in Porto, whose programme is composed of works by four Portuguese composers, in order to pay tribute to the activities carried out by the Matosinhos Municipality for the sake of Portuguese culture. The repertoire of this event will thus include two pieces by composers published by the MIC.PT: Antinous (1994) for orchestra and string quartet by António Chagas Rosa, performed on this occasion and for the first time in Porto by the Matosinhos String Quartet; and Transmutations pour orchestre – la bibliothèque en feu (2012) by Pedro Amaral where the composer pays tribute to Bruckner, Wagner and Richard Strauss. The concert, Portugal XXI, opening with the premiere of a new work by Vasco Mendonça, and followed by Díptico by Luís Tinoco, includes the participation of Mei Yi Foo (piano) and of the Porto Symphony Orchestra Casa da Música under the baton of Pablo Rus Broseta.
Works BY
António Pinho Vargas
in LISBON
Six Portraits of Pain (2005), version for solo cello and orchestra, and Estudos e Interlúdios (2000) for six percussionists, two works by António Pinho Vargas, composer published by the MIC.PT, will be presented, respectively, on January 16 and 17 at the Auditorium of the Lisbon College of Music (ESML), and on January 16 at the Cultural Center of Belém in Lisbon (CCB). “A comission by Casa da Música (...), this is the work of pain that has become constitutive of the artist's melancholy”, writes Augusto M. Seabra about Six Portraits of Pain. The work will be interpreted on this occasion by Marco Pereira (cello) and the ESML Orchestra conducted by Vasco Mendonça. The presentation of Estudos e Interlúdios, a work that explores the rhythm as pulse and duration, will be carried out by the ensemble Percussões da Metropolitana (Metropolitan Orchestra Percussions), within a concert that includes works by Steve Reich and Thierry de Mey.
Inauguration of the PHONOPTICON
Three composers published by the MIC.PT, Rui Dias, Filipe Lopes and Rui Penha, participate in the Phonopticon project produced by the Sonoscopia (Porto), association and platform for creation, production and promotion of projects focused on music and sound research and its interdisciplinary crossings with other arts. The project will be inaugurated on January 7 at the GNRATION in Braga. Phonopticon is a sonic model inspired in the Panopticon, a building designed by Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century, where a control central tower has a 360 degrees vision on the cells of the prisoners. Here, the ideas of control and power implicit in the Panopticon are replaced by sound representations, free and abstract in its essence, that find different meanings within the listening processes of every listener. Phonopticon is thus a concert exploring new expressive and performative ways in the areas of composition, performance and spatialization, gathering new acoustic and electronic musical instruments.
NEW WORK BY TIAGO CUTILEIRO AT THE DME FESTIVAL
s122015 for piano with ebows, melodica and field recordings is the new work by Tiago Cutileiro, which was premiered by Joana Gama (and Tiago Cutileiro) on December 29 at the Municipal Art House/Conservatory of Music in Seia, in the context of the DME Festival . Electroacoustic Music Days. s122015 (the title changes according to the place and time of collecting the recordings used in the performance) “is, in a way, a sound and tonal portrait of a space and time that is specifically chosen and conceptually confined - in this case Seia in the final of 2015; [simultaneously, it is] a challenge for an interpretative anti-virtuosity”, reveals this composer published by the MIC.PT in the programme note of the work commissioned by the DME Festival. The 24th edition of this event in the Serra da Estrela region (Seia and Gouveia), and the 42nd of all the festival’s editions, was taking place at the end of 2015, between December 27 and 30. Its programme included conferences, workshops as well as concerts with pieces by various composers published by the MIC.PT: Rui Penha, Eduardo Luís Patriarca, Ângela da Ponte, Miguel Azguime and Helder Gonçalves, among others.
ELECTROACOUSTIC music DAYS IN GOUVEIA
The Festival Dias de Música Electroacústica (DME) will have its 25th edition on January 9 and 10, at the Teatro Cine Gouveia. The programme includes two concerts with the presentation of works by Portuguese composers, including gv122015, a new piece by Tiago Cutileiro for piano with ebows, melodica and field recordings. The version presented on January 9 will be performed byJoana Gama, a pianist that has dedicated a great part of her activity to the music of the 20th and 21st centuries. The work gv122015 was created with sounds recorded in the city of Gouveia by the composer Tiago Cutileiro, resident artist at the Festival DME during the first week of January 2016. On January 10 the DME Festival's programme comprises works by several artists within a concert dedicated to videomusic, including creations by João Pedro Oliveira, composer published by the MIC.PT. The DME Festival has artistic and executive direction of Jaime Reis. It takes place several times in different locations each year. DME is promoted by Associação de Fomento do Ensino Artístico (AFEA)/Collegium Musicum - Conservatório de Música de Seia.
Jaime Reis . New Composer Published by the MIC.PT
This January Jaime Reis joins the composers published by the MIC.PT. The MIC.PT on-line Score Catalogue includes already one of his works, Calmodulin Synthesis (2002), for 5 percussionists. Born in 1983, Jaime Reis studied composition and electronic music with Isabel Soveral and João Pedro Oliveira at the Aveiro University. He attended seminars and summer courses with Emmanuel Nunes and Karlheinz Stockhausen. He is working on a doctoral thesis in Musicology at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He has composed several works of chamber and orchestral music, and many electroacoustic pieces. Besides his work as a composer, he is also artistic director of the Electroacoustic Music Days festival (DME). He collaborates with the INET-MD (Etnomusicology Institute of Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and has worked in the pedagogical direction of the Conservatório de Música de Seia. He was resident composer at the LEC (Lab for Electroacoustic Creation) of the Miso Music Portugal in 2006/07. His music has been presented in Portugal in several events like Festival Música Viva and Festival de Música de Aveiro, and also in Poland, Turkey, France, Austria, Belgium. Jaime Reis has received commissions for works from ensembles and institutions like Lisbon Contemporary Music Group, Grupo Síntese, Duo Contracello, Borealis Ensemble, UFT/INATEL, Festival Primavera, Logos Foundation (Bélgica), F.L.S.I. (Paris), among others.
News Scores on the MIC.PT
The MIC.PT publishes and provides online seven new scores by three Portuguese contemporary composers, that is: Duas Invenções (2009) for keyboard, eine kleine (2009) for ensemble, O tempo (2006) and Os elementos (2009) for children choir and piano, and ... .. (2014) for viola and live electronics dedicated to the memory of Gareguin Aroutiounian, by Bruno Gabirro; A-MÈR-ES (1979) for orchestra and tape by Cândido Lima; as well as Calmodulin Synthesis (2002) for five percussionists by Jaime Reis. 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 926 works by 55 Portuguese composers.
THE WORK ‘APHÂR (2007) AWARDED AT THE INDIEFEST
The work 'Aphâr (2007) for electronics and video by João Pedro Oliveira, composer published by the MIC.PT, was distinguished with the Award of Merit at the IndieFEST Global Film Award (California, the USA), whose objective is to promote independent artists and unique voices to a worldwide audience. ‘Aphâr is a Hebrew word that means “dust”. This piece is inspired in the dream of Jacob, described in the Old Testament. “To climb Jacob’s ladder is a very difficult process. Every step one takes is harder and harder, taking more and more time and effort to accomplish. The steps are heavy, and the dust from one’s feet is spread around, until it finally disappears. If one reaches the top of the ladder, everything else is gone, a door closes to the rest of the world, and in this moment one achieves the infinity” (João Pedro Oliveira).
PIECE BY CARLOS MARECOS AT THE SATIE.150
The piece Três Prelúdios sobre o Mar (1997) by Carlos Marecos, composer published by the MIC.PT, is integrated in the repertoire of the SATIE.150 recital, which the pianist Joana Gama will give on January 7 at 7h00 p.m. at the Luís de Freitas Branco Hall of the Cultural Centre of Belém. SATIE.150 marks the 150th anniversary of Erik Satie. At the recital the pieces by this French composer are interlaced with works by composers who share with him the taste for deformalization of music, although obtaining distinct results; they are: John Cage, Arvo Pärt, John Adams, Alexander Scriabin and Carlos Marecos, whose Três Prelúdios… were commissioned by the ACARTE service of the Gulbenkian Foundation. With its premiere at the CCB in Lisbon, during 2016 Joana Gama’s recital SATIE.150 will be heard once every month in 12 locations.
ORQUESTRA XXI PREMIERED WORK by ANTÓNIO CHAGAS ROSA
Audivi Vocem, a new work by António Chagas Rosa, was premiered on December 16, at Centro Cultural Conde Duque, in Madrid. This composition for chamber orchestra was commissioned by the Orquestra XXI and having been included in the XIII Mostra Portuguesa. The title Audivi Vocem originates from a motet of the Portuguese renaissance composer Duarte Lobo. Chagas Rosa, composer published by the MIC.pt, explained that “In the case of Audivi Vocem (…) I extracted from the texts what made more sense to me (“I heard celestial voices”) and I removed from the original score a harmonic series, which I then worked in my piece adapting it to my own construction needs” (fragment of the composer's interview conducted by Diana Ferreira, in artenotempo.pt).
FILIPE LOPES’ ACTIVITIES IN DECEMBER
Do Desenho e do Som #5 for euphonium, vibraphone, electronics and live graphic score is the work by Filipe Lopes, composer published by the MIC.PT, which was premiered on December 5 by the Frater Duo (euphonium and vibraphone) and Ricardo Antão (live graphic score), in the context of the APTE 2015 Festival, organized by the Portuguese Association of Tubas and Euphoniums at the Music School of the National Conservatory in Lisbon. Additionally, “the Pesca Sonora (Sound Fishery) project took its first dive in the sea, under the code name Prelúdio Submarino (Submarine Prelude)”, on December 16 at the Augusto Gomes Secondary School in Matosinhos (ESAG). This was the first presentation integrated in the project Grande Pesca Sonora, coordinated by the OMJ/LabJázzica, which Filipe Lopes is developing together with Joana Moraes, Pedro Cardoso, Maria Mónica, with the students and professors of the ESAG, as well as with the Association of Retired Fishermen and the João de Deus School Garden (Matosinhos).
 
música hoje on antena 2
January 2, 16 and 30 at 1h00 a.m.
Portuguese music for percussion
by Portuguese percussionists

Thanks to the emancipation of percussion throughout the 20th century, nowadays this instrument constitutes one of the preferred means of expression of various contemporary composers. It offers an abundance of possibilities when it comes to the discovery of brand new sonorities. The substancial development of this repertoire (solo and for ensemble), contributed to the emergence of many artists who specialize in the performance of new music for percussion. Presently, some of them constitute points of reference in the music environment, both inside and outside of Portugal. During the first Música Hoje (Music Today) programme in 2016 we will thus present various works for percussion (and electronics) by Portuguese, 20th and 21st century composers, "visiting" the performances by Nuno Aroso, Miguel Azguime, Pedro Carneiro, Drumming - Percussion Group, and by other Portuguese percussionists.
New MIC.PT Scores
Bruno Gabirro, Duas Invenções para tecla (2009)
keyboard
Bruno Gabirro, eine kleine (2009)
ensemble
Bruno Gabirro, O Tempo (2006)
children choir and piano
Bruno Gabirro, Os Elementos (2009)
children choir and piano
Bruno Gabirro, ... .. (2014)
viola and live electronics
Cândido Lima, A-MÈR-ES (1979)
orchestra and tape
Jaime Reis, Calmodulin Synthesis (2002)
five percussionists
NEW cd ON THE mic.pt
Ruy Coelho
O violino d'Orpheu
works by Ruy Coelho performed by Alexander Stewart and the musicians of the mpmp Ensemble.




Edition: mpmp
ENTRE MADEIRAS TRIO
works by Sérgio Azevedo, Eli Camargo Jr., Rui Lavos, Edward Luiz Ayres d’Abreu, Christopher Bochmann e Clotilde Rosa; performed by the Entre Madeiras Trio: Miriam Tallette Cardoso, flute . Filipe Pereira Branco, oboe . João Andrade Nunes, saxophone
Edition: mpmp
Recent Premieres
João Quinteiro Lopes
Thánatos

December 3, the Electricity Museum, Lisbon
Lisbon Contemporary Music Group
Vasco Azevedo, conductor
Filipe Lopes
Do Desenho e do Som #5

December 5, Festival APTE, Lisbon
Frater Duo, euphonium and vibraphone
Ricardo Antão, live graphic score
Vasco Mendonça
FIGHT | FLIGHT | FREEZE

December 5, Teatro El Granero, Mexico City
Cepromusic . Jose Luis Castillo, conductor
Isabel Soveral
O Dragão Watasumi

December 10, Teatro Aveirense, Aveiro
Drumming - Percussion Group
Miquel Bernat, musical direction
Luís Soldado
O Corvo

December 10, Palácio do Sobralinho, Vila Franca de Xira
Rui Baeta, baritone . Sara Chéu, dancer
António Correia, accordion . Ruben Jacinto, clarinet
Tiago Vila, cello . José Grossinho, electronics
Rui Pinheiro, musical direction
Sara Ross
Cartografia

December 11, Antena 2 Concerts, ISEG, Lisbon
Ensemble Darcos . Nuno Côrte-Real, musical direction
Diogo da Costa Ferreira
Weltschmerz I

December 11, Antena 2 Concerts, ISEG, Lisbon
Ensemble Darcos . Nuno Côrte-Real, musical direction
João Ceitil
Equinócios

December 11, Antena 2 Concerts, ISEG, Lisbon
Ensemble Darcos . Nuno Côrte-Real, musical direction
ÂNGELA DA PONTE
Ao Desconcerto do Mundo

December 15, O'culto da Ajuda, Lisbon
Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble . Miguel Azguime, narrator
Pedro Neves, musical direction
sofia Sousa Rocha
Fala do velho do Restelo ao astronauta

December 15, O'culto da Ajuda, Lisbon
Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble . Miguel Azguime, narrator
Pedro Neves, musical direction
Daniel Martinho
Sonho

December 15, O'culto da Ajuda, Lisbon
Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble . Ágata Mandillo, narrator
Pedro Neves, musical direction
António Chagas Rosa
Audivi Vocem

December 16, XIII Mostra Portuguesa, Madrid
Orquestra XXI . Dinis Sousa, musical direction
Tiago Cutileiro
s122015

December 29, Festival DME, Serra da Estrela, Portugal
Joana Gama, piano
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