Newsletter MIC.PT . JANUARY 2017

se não conseguir visualizar esta newsletter clique aqui- if you can't see this newsletter click here
pedimos desculpa por envios múltiplos - apologies for cross-posting

VÍTOR RUA IN FOCUS ON THE MIC.PT IN JANUARY

Vítor Rua, composer published by the MIC.PT, has always followed his own path - he started his activity with rock music, gradually getting closer to the new music circles. In 1982 he met Jorge Lima Barreto, whose influence was decisive for the change in his music direction - together they created the music ensemble Telectu. Here Vítor Rua developed his multifaceted talent as guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, composer and inventor of prototypes.
Vítor Rua is interested in all music styles that nowadays are available to composers - he is influenced by a “meta-typology”, where all his music experiences are reunited in the genre: compositions on meta-idiomatic improvisations. It is quite typical for Vítor Rua to resort in his work to irony, with the aim to deconstruct older music forms and to create commentaries on the present times. The soprano Ana Ester Neves, saxophonist Daniel Kientzy, trombonist Giancarlo Schiaffini, pianist John Tilbury and recorder players Kathryn Bennetts and Peter Bowman are some of the musicians who have performed Vítor Rua’s works at concerts, as well as at national and international festivals.
What does Vítor Rua thinks of the present situation in Portuguese music? What is unique to his creative process? How does he defines the relations between science and music?… You will find the answers to these and other questions in the MIC.PT questionnaire, which this month is published on-line in the In Focus section and in the Dossier no. 11 belonging to our series series – Dossiers . Portuguese Composers of the 20th and 21st Centuries.

Activities of the composers published by the mic.pt

On January 17th, Rui Dias will present the Concerto for improvisers and laptop orchestra at Art's Birthday 2017. The composer published by the MIC.PT was selected to represent Portugal in this celebration of the 1,000,054th anniversary of Art. In Portugal the Art's Birthday celebrations will take place at Miso Music Portugal (O'culto da Ajuda) with Antena 2 broadcasting live to EBU (European Broadcasting Union).

Miguel Azguime, composer published by the MIC.PT, will have his work for orchestra Illuminations performed by the Orquestra de Câmara Portuguesa conducted by Pedro Carneiro, at Teatro da Trindade, in Lisbon. This concert will take on January 24th, at 19h00, and it is part of the Antena 2 Festival with live broadcast.

The composer published by the MIC.PT, Fernando Lapa, will have his work Para um Natal Português, based on traditional melodies, played on January 6th both in Braga, by the Coro de Câmara da Bairrada, with the soprano Eva Braga Simões and conducted by Tiago Matias; and, at the same time, in Porto, performed by Coro e orquestra do Conservatório de Música do Porto, conducted by Fernando Marinho.

Jaime Reis will be in a open rehearsal with his works Inverso Sangue and Granito at Institut Français, in Barcelona. Still in January, the composer published by the MIC.PT will participate in Círculo Das 5as: Compositores Na 1ª Pessoa (III), in January 26th, at Museu Arte Nova (in Aveiro), promoted by Arte no Tempo.

João Pedro Oliveira

From January 23 to February 3, João Pedro Oliveira, will be in residence at Centro Mexicano para a Música e Artes Sonoras (CMMAS), in Morelia, in order to collaborate on the Lumínico project with a new work. Still at CMMAS, the composer published by the MIC.PT will present his cycle of works for video and electronics, Os 4 Elementos - of which the works Âphâr, Hydatos, Et Ignis Involvens and Neshamah are part - on the 27th January.

MIC.PT Highlights

New Scores on the MIC.PT

This month the MIC.PT publishes and provides online two new scores. That is: two paragraphs (2016) for solo trombone by Diogo da Costa Ferreira, and Opus 27 Plus (2016) for ensemble by Christopher Bochmann. 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 964 works by 63 Portuguese composers.

FEATURED NEWS

Accordion Composition Prize
INATEL Foundation / FOLEFEST Association - 1^st Edition – 2017

The INATEL Foundation / FOLEFEST Association are launching the 1^st edition of the Accordion Composition Prize to promote and encourage contemporary musical creation for accordion. This Prize is intended for composers of Portuguese nationality or for resident foreigners living in Portugal, without age limit, by submitting an unpublished work, until April 28, 2017. The jury of this contest is composed by composer Luís Tinoco, Daniel Moreira, composer published by the MIC.PT, and Paulo Jorge Ferreira, president of the jury, accordionist and composer.

18^th International Electroacoustic Composition Competition Música Viva 2017

In order to encourage the creation and the diffusion of new electroacoustic works, Miso Music Portugal promotes the 18^th International Electroacoustic Composition Competition MÚSICA VIVA 2017. The members of the jury are the composer Miguel Álvarez-Fernández and the composers published by the MIC.PT Paulo Ferreira-Lopes and Miguel Azguime. The deadline to submit works is January 31st 2017. The awarded piece will be announced during the Festival Música Viva 2017, which will take place at O’culto da Ajuda in Lisbon, between the 20th and 27th May 2017.

CMC Composition Competition
2016/2017

The CMC Composition Competition 2016/2017 is open for students from any official music school. This competition, which the Conservatório de Música de Coimbra seeks to establish as a regular event of the annual activity plan, aims to promote the creation of contemporary Portuguese music. There is no required instrumentation, and this can be constituted by any instrument taught at the CMC, up to a maximum of five instruments. The jury will be composed of A.T.C./Composition teachers and members of the CMC Board. The deadline for submitting scores is April 17, 2017.

música hoje on antena 2

In January Música Hoje continues the broadcasts dedicated to the Portuguese electroacoustic music creation started last December.
We will continue with a broad panorama with the music of the most relevant creators among us in this musical field, from the precursors of the 60s to the present day, including the brand new and emerging creators.

January 14, 1:00 am

January 28, 1:00 am

NEW SCORES AT THE MIC.PT

Diogo da Costa Ferreira, two paragraphs (2016)

Christopher Bochmann, Opus 27 Plus (2016)

mic.pt DIGITAL EDITIONS

VÍTOR RUA
Dossier no. 11: Portuguese Composers
of the 20th and 21st Centuries

This January, in the context of the new series Dossiers: Portuguese Composers of the 20th and 21st Centuries, we provide a new online publication - the new edition of the Dossier no. 11 devoted to Vítor Rua. The series Portuguese Composers of the 20th and 21st 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 following the chronological order) and discography.

Up to date, the MIC.PT has released the following Dossiers: Dossier no. 1 . Paulo Ferreira-Lopes; Dossier no. 2 . Sara Carvalho; Dossier no. 3 . António Ferreira; Dossier no. 4 . António Chagas Rosa; Dossier no. 5. Bruno Gabirro; Dossier no. 6 . Christopher Bochmann; Dossier no. 7 . Patrícia Sucena de Almeida; Dossier n.º 8 . Miguel Azguime; Dossier n.º 9 . Ricardo Ribeiro; Dossier n.º 10 . Pedro Rebelo and Dossier n.º 11 . Vítor Rua.

recent PREMIERES

João Pedro Oliveira
cycle of works "4 Elementos"
1st December, Fachada Digital do Espaço do Conhecimento, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Daniel Moreira
Do Desconcerto do Mundo, for two amateur choirs and instrumental ensemble
6th December, Casa da Música, Porto, Portugal

Remix Ensemble
Coral de Letras da Universidade do Porto
Orquestra Som da Rua e Cor da Voz (Santa Casa da Misericórdia da Maia)

Ricardo Matosinhos
The Human Puppet, op.70, for clarinet and percussion (alto steel drum and cajon) with optional dancer
19th December, Conservatório de Música do Porto, Porto, Portugal

ClapDuo:
Cândida Oliveira, clarinet
Bruno Costa, percussion
Carla P. Loureiro, dancer

Ricardo Matosinhos
R u tall king tummy?, op.69, for Clarinet sextet and Drums
19th December, Conservatório de Música do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Clarinet Sextet Black & White

João Pedro Oliveira
Petals
29th December, Casa Municipal da Cultura de Seia, Portugal