Newsletter MIC.PT . MARCH 2017

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JOÃO MADUREIRA IN FOCUS ON THE MIC.PT IN MARCH

This March the In Focus section is dedicated to João Madureira, composer published by the MIC.PT, whose music constitutes a personal statement on the world’s plurality.
João Madureira was born in Lisbon in 1971. After studying Composition at the Superior School of Music in Lisbon, he worked with Franco Donatoni in Siena, York Höller in Cologne and Ivan Fedele in Strasbourg. In 2007 the Aveiro University recognized his Composition studies in Germany with a Master’s Degree. This year the composer will defend his doctoral thesis, which, through the investigation of Luciano Berio’s work, deals with the relations between music, politics, ethics and philosophy.
João Madureira’s work includes compositions for chamber ensembles, symphonic orchestra, solo instruments with and without electronics, vocal and staged music, as well as music for theatre. In his language he integrates the various “ruptures” from the history of music, making use of the techniques and aesthetics both from the 20th century, such as serialism and spectralism, as well as from the past. Connected with the aesthetic principles of late postmodernism, João Madureira created within Portuguese music a singular voice. It isn’t only drawing from the various sources, such as ancient music, Central-African culture and non-musical phenomenon, which interest him. These sources let him include in music different metalinguistic dimensions.
How did João Madureira discover composition? How for him politics reveals itself in music and what is his opinion on the present situation of Portuguese music? You’ll find answers to these and other questions in the interview carried out by the MIC.PT in October 2016 and available now in our In Focus section. This interview will be part of João Madureira’s Dossier, to be published in April within the series - Dossiers . Portuguese Composers go the 20th and 21st Centuries.
(Photo: © Teresa Santos)

Activities of the composers published by the mic.pt

Luís Antunes Pena

Luís Antunes Pena, composer published by the MIC.PT, will have the premiere of his work OFF-BALANCE, for two percussion and orchestra, performed by Orquestra Gulbenkian conducted by Pedro Neves, with Rui Sul Gomes - timpani and Nuno Aroso - percussion. The concert named Festa da Percussão, will take place at Grande Auditório of Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, on the next March 19 at 11:00 am and at 4:00 pm.

Duarte P. Dinis Silva

The composer published by the MIC.PT, Duarte P. Dinis Silva, will have the premiere of his orchestra work Misty - Symphonic Poem (published by the MIC.PT last month) on March 4, at CineTeatro de S. Pedro de Abrantes. It will be performed by Orquestra Sinfónica do Conservatório Regional de Castelo Branco conducted by Bruno Cândido as part of the XII Festival de Música da Beira Interior.

Christopher Bochmann

On World Poetry Day, 25th March, Christopher Bochmann, composer published by the MIC.PT, will have the premiere of his work Uma grande razão with texts by Mario Cesariny, for baritone and orchestra. The concert will take place at Grande Auditório of Centro Cultural de Belém, at 6 pm, with the Orquestra Sinfónica Juvenil and the baritone Armando Possante.

João Pedro Oliveira

João Pedro Oliveira will have his work Vox Sum Vitae, for vibraphone and electronics, performed by Tempus Rhythmicus (aka Daniel Pate) at NWEAMO 2017. This concert will take place on March 18 at 7 pm, at Smith Recital Hall of San Diego State University, in the United States of America. The composer published by the MIC.PT will also have his work Petals (visual music) played at Open Circuit Festival 2017: Electronic Music and Video Art Showcase, in Liverpool, on the 27th.

António Pinho Vargas

On the 11th of March at 5:30 pm, at Fundação Gulbenkian, there will take place the Warner Classics CD launching. This CD includes the works Magnificat and De Profundis by António Pinho Vargas, composer published by the MIC.PT, performed by Coro Gulbenkian and Orquestra Metropolitana, conducted by Paulo Lourenço and Cesário Costa.

Igor C. Silva, composer published by the MIC.PT, was a finalist, among 300 composers from all around the globe, on the call for scores of New York's [Switch~Ensemble].

Ricardo Matosinhos

The work Reflections, op. 71 by Ricardo Matosinhos, composer published by the MIC.PT, was the winner of the prize/category FEATURED DIVISION from the 2016 International Horn Society Composition Contest. More than 70 composers from 10 different countries participated in this competition organized by the International Horn Society.

MIC.PT Highlights

New Scores on the MIC.PT

This month the MIC.PT publishes and provides online two new scores. That is: Son a ta demeure (2014-2015) for clarinet and piano, and En Gêne Engin Ni Gemme (2015) for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano by Miguel Azguime. 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 971 works by 63 Portuguese composers.

Antena 2 Concerts with works by
composers published by the MIC.PT

Starting next April, the MIC will join the Antena 2 Concerts with monthly live broadcasts from O'culto da Ajuda.
The MIC.PT and Miso Music Portugal in collaboration with Antena 2 are looking for proposals for these concerts, with a repertoire that privileges the XX^th and XXI^th century music, with preference given to music by composers published by the MIC.PT.
The first Antena 2 Concerts at O'culto da Ajuda will take place on tuesday April 4th, with a four hands piano recital by João Lucena e Vale and José Bon de Sousa. This concert will highlight the music by two composers published by the MIC.PT: Daniel Schvetz and Fernando Lapa.

Composers published by the MIC.PT at
Festival Música Viva 2017

From the 1st of March the preliminary program of Festival Música Viva 2017 is available at Miso Music Portugal's website. This Festival will take place at O'culto da Ajuda between the 20th and 27th May, and there will be performed over 50 work, of which 23 are works by portuguese composers. The MIC.PT is proud to announce that 14 of these 23 composers are composers published by the MIC.PT. Furthermore, all these 14 composers will be having world premieres.
The composers published by the MIC.PT at the Música Viva Festival 2017 will be: Ângela da Ponte, António de Sousa Dias, Eduardo Luís Patriarca, Jaime Reis, João Castro Pinto, João Pedro Oliveira, Miguel Azguime, Nuno Figueiredo, Paulo Ferreira-Lopes, Pedro Rebelo, Ricardo Ribeiro, Rui Dias, Fernando Lapa and Sara Carvalho. Portuguese performers will also be highlighted.

música hoje on antena 2

March 10, 1:00 am
Overview of Electroacoustic Music in Portugal #7

During March Música Hoje will proceed with the broad overview of electroacoustic music creation in Portugal that has been presented since December. This is the 7th broadcast of this overview and it will include works by composers born between 1974 and 1984 - more specifically works by Rui Dias, João Castro Pinto, Miguel Negrão, Jaime Reis and Ângela da Ponte.

March 24, 1:00 am
Overview of Electroacoustic Music in Portugal #8

On this second broadcast of Música Hoje in March this broad overview of electroacoustic music in Portugal will end with a colective work in the manner of a surrealist "Cadavre Exquis". It will include electroacoustic miniatures by the composers Duarte P. Dinis Silva, Pedro Patrício, Filipe Lopes, Carlos Guedes, Carlos Augusto, Carlos Marecos, Emanuel Dimas Pimenta, André Castro, Simão Costa, Ricardo Guerreiro, Rui Penha and Álvaro Garcia de Zuñiga.

NEW SCORES AT THE MIC.PT

Miguel Azguime, Son a ta demeure (2014-2015)

clarinet and piano

Miguel Azguime, En Gêne Engin Ni Gemme (2015)

flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano

recent PREMIERES

Eduardo Luís Patriarca
Canto de Magdala, for flute and electronics
9th February, Teatro Municipal de Vila do Conde, Vila do Conde, Portugal

Morgana Patriarca, flute
Bernardo Soares, invited pianist

Nuno Peixoto de Pinho
+cant, for solo flute
9th February, Teatro Municipal de Vila do Conde, Vila do Conde, Portugal

Morgana Patriarca, flute
Bernardo Soares, invited pianist

Isabel Soveral
Para Morgana, for solo flute
9th February, Teatro Municipal de Vila do Conde, Vila do Conde, Portugal

Morgana Patriarca, flute
Bernardo Soares, invited pianist

Paulo Bastos
Indizível, for flute and piano
9th February, Teatro Municipal de Vila do Conde, Vila do Conde, Portugal

Morgana Patriarca, flute
Bernardo Soares, invited pianist

Amílcar Vasques Dias
Fata Morgana, for flute and piano
9th February, Teatro Municipal de Vila do Conde, Vila do Conde, Portugal

Morgana Patriarca, flute
Bernardo Soares, invited pianist

João Pedro Oliveira
Jet, for flute and electronics
9th February, Teatro Municipal de Vila do Conde, Vila do Conde, Portugal

Morgana Patriarca, flute
Bernardo Soares, invited pianist

Ricardo Matosinhos
Os contos do oboé, Op.73, for oboe and piano
9th February, University of Iowa, United States of America

Courtney Miller, oboe
Alan Huckleberry, piano

Igor C. Silva
Plastic Air, for flexible duo, electronics and video/light
16th February, Splendor, Amsterdam