Newsletter MIC.PT . JULY 2017

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FERNANDO C. LAPA IN FOCUS ON THE MIC.PT IN JULY

In July the MIC.PT In Focus and Dossier no. 14 (published in the context of the digital editions’ series: Dossiers . Portuguese Composers of the 20th and 21st Centuries) are dedicated to Fernando C. Lapa - prolific composer, for whom artistic freedom and independence are some of the most important aspects in music creation.
Born in 1950 in Vila Real, Fernando C. Lapa studied music at the Music Conservatoire in Porto, where he graduated from the Composition Superior Course in the class led by Cândido Lima. During his career he was Composition and Orchestration professor (among other disciplines) at various schools, including the Music Conservatoire in Porto as well as the Superior School of Music and Performance Arts in the same city. Having a strong connection with choral music, Fernando C. Lapa conducted the Academic Choir at the Minho University during 16 years.
In the last three decades the composer has created a vast work, encompassing concertos, symphonic and choral-symphonic repertoire, operas, chamber music, works for solo instruments as well as soundtracks for cinema and theatre. Many of them are regularly performed at concerts both in Portugal and abroad.
How did Fernando C. Lapa discover the universe of composition? What is the role of literature and poetry in his work? How does he understand the term “avant-garde”? What is his opinion on Portuguese contemporary music? You’ll find the answer to these and other questions in our July In Focus section, dedicated to this composer published by the MIC.PT, whose piece a menina, a lua e o mar inspired in the literature by Mia Couto has been recently premiered, and who is currently preparing his new opera Mátria with libretto by Eduarda Freitas based on Miguel Torga’s work.

(Foto: © Paulo Pimenta)

Activities of the composers published by the mic.pt

Pedro Rebelo, composer published by the MIC.PT, will lead a workshop with Evan Parker for music improvisers which aims to explore the relationship between space and music improvisation. This workshop will take place at Jardins Efémeros in Viseu, between 7 and 16 July. From July 7 to August 7 there will also take place at Jardins Efémeros the exhibition of Vestido a Rigor, an instalation resulting from a colaboration with BeAnotherLab on a participative project with residents from the Social Neighborhood of Paradinha. Simultaneously, from July 7 to August 7, the instalation Listen to me! will also be running. It results from the Instalação/Residência Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory - Scale Travels, at the Galery INL in Braga.

The Lisbon University's Children Choir conducted by Erica Mandillo will perform the work Assombro by Miguel Azguime on the 6th July at Turin Conservatory (Italy), and on the 15th at Aula Magna (Portugal). On the 20th of July, at 22h30 at Mosteiro de S.Bento da Vitória, the Miso Ensemble will perform the third part of the New Op-Era Itinerário do Sal by Paula Azguime and Miguel Azguime, at the ELO Conference, in Porto. Still in July, Miguel Azguime, composer published by the MIC.PT, will also have his work Orbital Shift Variations performed by the Drumming - Grupo de Percussão at Teatro Helena Sá e Costa, in Porto on the 26th at 21h30.

Igor C. Silva, composer published by the MIC.PT, will have his works Drive_! and Gin#122 performed by André Dias at the Festival Tomarimbando in Tomar, on the 11th of July. The composer will also have the portuguese premiere of Smart-alienation and the performance of his work Numb by the Trash Panda Collective at the II EURSAX – European Saxophone Congress, taking place between 11th and 14th of July, at Casa da Música in Porto.

On the 1st of July, the composer published by the MIC.PT, Jaime Reis, will present a conference entitled Emmanuel Nunes, “counterpoint of parameters” and ideas on “micro”, at the Symposium Mikrotöne: Small is beautiful 2017, in Salzburgo (Austria). Between the 4th and 6th of July there will take place DME 35|54, a festival curated by Jaime Reis, at Casa Municipal da Cultura de Seia. The composer will also have his work Voces excipere performed again by the Ensemble "Soli-Tutti", on the 9th at Gulbenkian, and on the 14th he will have his work dimensionless sound B performed by Ana Telles and Pierre-Yves Artaud at 2º encontro FLAUTUÉ, at Évora University. Lastly, the composer published by the MIC.PT will also perform, together with KontakteDuo, the work Kontakte for piano, percussion and electronics by Karlheinz Stockhausen, at Festival Format Raisins in France, on the 22nd.

João Pedro Oliveira

The work Neshamah (video and eletroacoustics) by João Pedro Oliveira has been awarded the best original soundtrack at the Frostbite International Film Festival. This work was also selected for the film festivals 3rd Minikino Film Week 2017 and International Meeting on Video-dance and Video-performance. The composer published by the MIC.PT will also have the premiere of his work Derivative I for solo violin, performed by Alessandro Cazzatto, on the 13th of July, at Carnegie Hall (New York). On the 14th, his work entre o ar e a perfeição will be performed at 2º FLAUTUÉ - Festival de Flauta Transversal, at Évora University. João Pedro Oliveira will also have his work Petals presented at the 25º Festival Internacional de Animação do Brasil - ANIMA MUNDI 2017, from July 18 to 23 in Rio de Janeiro, and from July 26 to 30 in São Paulo (Brazil).

The 35^th edition of the DME Festival in the region of Serra da Estrela (the 54^th among all editions), will take place between the 4th and 6th of July. This festival is curated by the composer published by the MIC.PT, Jaime Reis, and will present the works by the composers published by the MIC.PT João Pedro Oliveira, Carlos Marecos and [ka'mi], as well as a monographic concert by Dimitris Andrikopoulos and works by composers Alexandre Rodrigues and Tiago Matos.

The Ensemble "Soli-Tutti”, conducted by Denis Gautheyrie, will once again perform the works Voces excipere by Jaime Reis, Raiana (#2) by António Sousa Dias, and Moda da Oliveira by Rui Dias, composers published by the MIC.PT, as well as the work Vislumbre by Emmanuel Nunes, in a concert at Fundação Gulbenkian on the 9th of July.

Between 11th and 14th July, the II EURSAX – European Saxophone Congress will take place at Casa da Música, where there will be several works by composers published by the MIC.PT: Smart-alienation and Numb by Igor C. Silva, Vendaval by Christopher Bochmann, performed by the saxophonist Rob Buckland and the Banda Sinfónica Portuguesa conducted by Francisco Ferreira, and Before The Devil Knows by Nuno Figueiredo, performed by the saxophonist Henrique Portovedo and the Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble conducted by Lars Mlekusch.

FEATURED NEWS

6TH INTERNATIONAL COMPOSITION PRIZE FERNANDO LOPES-GRAÇA | 2017

The 6^th International Composition Prize Fernando Lopes-graça | 2017 promoted by Câmara Municipal de Cascais (CMC), the Fundação D. Luís I (FDLI) and the Museu da Música Portuguesa (MMP), is open until October 20, 2017. The Prize is intended for all composers regardless of age and nationality, who may wish to send an original piece for 4 hands Piano, with duration between 7' and 10'. The jury is composed of António Pinho Vargas, composer published by the MIC.PT, Sérgio Azevedo and Nuno Corte-Real.

música hoje on antena 2

July 14, 1:00 am
Portuguese Music at the World New Music Days Festival from the International Society for Contemporary Music - #1

This July Música Hoje will begin a broadcast cycle, lasting until the end of September, during which we will revisit the various works by contemporary portuguese composers that represented Portugal at the World New Music Days Festivals, since 2000 until today.
The broadcast of July 14th will bring us the music of João Rafael, Miguel Azguime and Isabel Soveral.

July 28, 1:00 am
Portuguese Music at the World New Music Days Festival from the International Society for Contemporary Music - #2

Following on the first broadcast of July, this second Música Hoje broadcast for this month will continue to present the various works by contemporary portuguese composers that represented Portugal at the World New Music Days Festivals, since 2000 until today.
The broadcast of July 28th will bring us the music of Pedro Amaral, Luís Tinoco and Cândido Lima.

August 11, 1:00 am
Portuguese Music at the World New Music Days Festival from the International Society for Contemporary Music - #3

The first Música Hoje broadcast of August continues this cycle dedicated to revisiting the various works by contemporary portuguese composers that represented Portugal at the World New Music Days Festivals, since 2000 until today.
The broadcast of August 11th will bring us the music of Paulo Ferreira-Lopes, Vítor Rua, João Madureira and Luís Antunes Pena.

August 25, 1:00 am
Portuguese Music at the World New Music Days Festival from the International Society for Contemporary Music - #4

The second Música Hoje broadcast of August continues this cycle dedicated to revisiting the various works by contemporary portuguese composers that represented Portugal at the World New Music Days Festivals, since 2000 until today.
The broadcast of August 11th will bring us the music of Miguel Azguime, Hugo Ribeiro and Bruno Gabirro.

mic.pt scores

The MIC.PT online Score Catalogue presently contains 971 works by 63 Portuguese composers. 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.

mic.pt DIGITAL EDITIONS

FERNANDO C. LAPA
Dossier no. 14: Portuguese Composers
of the 20th and 21st Centuries

This July, 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 in Portuguese of the Dossier no. 14 devoted to Fernando C. Lapa. 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 no. 8 . Miguel Azguime; Dossier no. 9 . Ricardo Ribeiro; Dossier no. 10 . Pedro Rebelo; Dossier no. 11 . Vítor Rua; Dossier no. 12 . João Madureira; Dossier no. 13 . António de Sousa Dias and Dossier no. 14 Fernando C. Lapa.

recent PREMIERES

Miguel Azguime
Orbital Shift Variations
2nd June, O'culto da Ajuda, Lisboa, Portugal

Drumming Marimba Quartet:
Pedro Gois, marimba
André Dias, marimba
João Dias, marimba
Miguel Bernat, marimba

José Alberto Gomes
No Moon
2nd June, O'culto da Ajuda, Lisboa, Portugal

Drumming Marimba Quartet:
Pedro Gois, marimba
André Dias, marimba
João Dias, marimba
Miguel Bernat, marimba

Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta
Terra
14th June, Trinity Chapel, De Montfort University, England

Audrey Riley, cello

Amilcar Vasques-Dias
Chamilly, Mon Amour, Uma história de Soror Mariana Alcoforado a partir de “Cartas Portuguesas”
16th June, Convento dos Capuchos, Almada, Portugal

Helena da Nóbrega, libretto

Luís Antunes Pena
Música Para 30 Metais
17th June, O'culto da Ajuda, Lisboa, Portugal

Nuno Aroso, percussion

Jaime Reis
Omniscience is a Collective
17th June, O'culto da Ajuda, Lisboa, Portugal

Nuno Aroso, percussion

Daniel Schvetz
A Conferência dos Pássaros, ópera em 5 actos, para solistas, coro e orquestra (a partir do poema de Farid Ud-Din Attar)
17th June, Grande Auditório, CCB, Lisboa, Portugal

Choir and Orchestra of Atelier Musical da Escola de Música do Conservatório Nacional
Jean Claude Carrière, libretto
Ricardo Mateus, musical conductor
Teresa Cordeiro, preparation and choir conductor
Rúben Saints, staging and movement
Students from FAUL with supervision by José Manuel Castanheira, Set Design
Orana Alves, libretto translation
Escola de Música do Conservatório Nacional, production

Pedro Amaral
Beaumarchais
22nd June, Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, Portugal

Orquestra Gulbenkian
Pedro Amaral, conductor
Jorge Andrade, staging
Luís Rodrigues, Baritone (Conde Almaviva)
Carolina Figueiredo, Mezzo-Soprano (Condessa Rosina)
André Henriques, Baritone (Figaro)
Joana Seara, Soprano (Susanna)
Marcos Alves dos Santos, Tenor (D. Basílio, D. Curzio, Béagearss)
Eduarda Melo, Soprano (Marcellina, Florestina)