Newsletter MIC.PT . SEPTEMBER 2017

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Isabel Soveral IN FOCUS ON THE MIC.PT IN September

In September we dedicate the MIC.PT In Focus section to Isabel Soveral, thus marking the release of the Dossier no. 15 devoted to this composer published by the MIC.PT. This new Dossier belongs to the MIC.PT digital editions series: Dossiers . Portuguese Composers of the 20th and 21st Centuries.
Isabel Soveral was born in 1961 in Porto. At the age of 18 she attended the Composition course led by Jorge Peixinho, with whom she worked until 1988. Together with Joly Braga Santos, he became one of the main figures in the process of her music education. In that same year she became student at the Stony Brook University in New York, where she studied with Daria Semegen and Bulent Arel.
Since 1995 Isabel Soveral has been Composition, Theory and Music Analysis professor at the Aveiro University, where presently she's also director of the Electroacoustic Music Research Centre (CIME), as well as creator of the EAW - Electroacoustic Winds platform. She’s also coordinator of the EAW 2017 International Congress, taking place between November 13 and 17 2017. The composer also coordinates the INET-MD Composition, Theory and Music Technology group, and since 2008 she has been member of the Portuguese Music Research & Information Centre Scientific Council.
The distinctive factor in Isabel Soveral’s music, both at macro and micro levels, is the sense of morphosis, constant transformation from one piece to another - the composer has a particular taste for joining her works in cycles. Her music creation, where one can find strong modernist influences, also possesses a “visual” component, being reflected in Isabel Soveral’s way of working with sound “masses” and “fabrics”, analogically to creating visual arts pieces.
In September visit our In Focus section dedicated to Isabel Soveral.
Photo: © Sofia Moraes

Activities of the composers published by the mic.pt

António Ferreira

The electroacoustic work About the Shovel and the Atom (2017) by António Ferreira, composer published by the MIC.PT, was presented on August 24 in the framework of the Futura Festival 2017. Olivier Lamarche was the concert’s performer, and its programme also included pieces by Céline Périer, Christophe Lambert, Sylvia Lebranchu and Matthieu Guillin. The Futura Festival dedicated to new music, took place between August 23 and 26, in Crest in France.

Ricardo Matosinhos

The work B(h)ORN T’WIN (2016) for French horn ensemble by Ricardo Matosinhos will be premiered on September 10 at the Peaceful Grove United Methodist Church in Woodbury (USA). The piece by this composer published by the MIC.PT has recently won the first award at the 2016-17 International Composition Competition for Works for Large Horn Ensemble, organized by the Twin Cities Horn Club and the American Composers Forum.

A monographic concert with music by Igor C. Silva will take place on September 9, in the framework of the Gaudeamus Muziekweek in Utrecht (the Netherlands). The programme of this performance by the Trash Panda Collective includes four 2016 works by this composer published by the MIC.PT: Your Trash for percussion, electronics and video; Plastic Air for flexible duo, electronics and video/light; Static on my fingers for a group of improvisers, electronics and video; and Smart-alienation for a small flexible ensemble, electronics and video.

Jaime Reis, composer published by the MIC.PT, is in September professor at the Electroacoustic Masterclasses // Kyiv Contemporary Music Days. The event, taking place between September 4 and 10 in Ukraine, also includes the participation of Åke Parmerud (Sweden), Alla Zagaykevych (Ukraine) and Mehmet Can Özer (Turkey). It's directed to composition students. In this context, a performance will take place on September 9 with Jaime Reis’ three works in the programme: Fluxus, Lift (2013); Jeux de l'espace (2015); Fluxus, Dimensionless Sound (2012/17).

The world premiere of Mirando eu Miranda (2017) by [ka’mi], composer published by the MIC.PT, took place on August 24 in the framework of the 4th Música Hoje Biennale in Curitiba (Brazil). The concert, whose programme included a number of pieces by contemporary composers, was performed by the musicians from the Austrian Platypus Ensemble: Kaoko Amano (soprano), Theresia Schmidinger (clarinets) and Marianna Oczkowska (violin). Another work by [ka’mi], Freed(om) of Choice (2017), will be premiered on September 23 in Vienna, in the framework of the Ensemble Platypus 10th anniversary.

João Pedro Oliveira

The acousmatic work Stream (2015) by João Pedro Oliveira, composer published by the MIC.PT, has been selected for the Bahía[in]sonora Festival in Argentina, where it's permanently performed in August and September 2017. From the composer’s recent production for electronics and video, the work Neshamah (2015) has received the silver medal at the London Short Film Festival (the UK) in the experimental film category, having also been finalist at the Los Angeles Cine Fest (the USA) in the same category. Apart from that, João Pedro Oliveira’s videomusic Petals (2016) has been selected for the Cinesonika 2017 Festival in Canada.

Nuno Aroso performs music by Portuguese Composers

Suspensus is the title of the performance by the percussionist Nuno Aroso and the digital artist Pedro Tudela, which will take place on September 2 in the framework of the event Noite Branca de Braga. Its programme includes three works by Portuguese composers published by the MIC.PT: Música para 30 Metais (2012) by Luís Antunes Pena, Vux Sum Vitae (2011) by João Pedro Oliveira and Omniscience is a Collective (2017) by Jaime Reis; as well as pieces by Nicolaus A. Huber and Lei Liang. According to the creators of this multimedia performance - Suspensus expresses the concepts of Geocentrism, Heliocentrism and Universal Gravity. It’s a performance, uniting the domains of architecture, music and digital art within the relation: audience-space-time-performance.

Inês Simões performs music by Portuguese Composers

Works by four composers published by the MIC.PT - Igor C. Silva (premiere of Deviation Point for soprano, electronics and video, commissioned by the Miso Music Portugal), Amílcar Vasques Dias, Constança Capdeville and Miguel Azguime (premiere of Aliterações de Água for soprano and electronics) - will be presented between September 15-17 at the O’culto de Ajuda in Lisbon. The programme, Da Solidão, which will be performed by the Portuguese singer Inês Simões, particularly interested in the music by 20th and 21st century composers and frequently collaborating with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, also includes pieces by Diogo A. Batista, Georges Aperghis and Kaija Saariaho.

CMMR2017 Matosinhos

Rui Penha, composer published by the MIC.PT and Mattew Davies are chairs of the CMMR 2017 - International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research, taking place between September 25 and 28 in Matosinhos (Portugal). The programme of this meeting, organized under the theme Music Technology with Swing, includes scientific sessions and debates on the relations between music and technology. The CMMR2017 programme also includes four concerts with music by various composers, including Filipe Lopes, composer published by the MIC.PT, and other Portuguese creators - Francisca Martins, Pedro Louzeiro and Carlos Guedes.

Eco-Percurso na Paisagem

Eco-Percurso na Paisagem is the title of a creation by the Teatro do Frio, putting into perspective the landscape through the body, orality, and acoustics, focusing the research on the search for moments of beauty occurring without apparent objectives. The performance, with the artistic direction by Rodrigo Malvar, is co-created by various artists, including Filipe Lopes, composer published by the MIC.PT, as well as other Portuguese musicians - Fátima Fonte and Tiago Angelo - responsible for the research, music composition and electronics. Eco-Percurso na Paisagem will be presented on September 29 and 30 in Vila Nova de Gaia (Portugal).

música hoje on antena 2

September 8, 2017, at 1h00 a.m.
Portuguese music at the World New Music Days Festival by the UNESCO International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) . #5

The first September Música Hoje radio programme continues the cycle with the various works by Portuguese composers, representing Portugal on the World New Music Days Festivals, since 2000 until today.
During the September 8 edition we will present Portuguese music performed at the World New Music Days Festivals in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013.

September 22, 2017, at 1h00 a.m.
Portuguese music at the World New Music Days Festival by the UNESCO International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) . #6

The second September Música Hoje radio programme closes the cycle with the various works by Portuguese contemporary composers, representing Portugal at the World New Music Days Festivals, since 2000 until now.
During the September 22 edition we will present Portuguese music performed at the World New Music Days Festivals in 2014, 2016, 2015 and 2017.

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

Isabel Soveral . Dossier no. 15
Portuguese Composers
of the 20th and 21st Centuries

This September, in the context of the 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. 15 dedicated to Isabel Soveral.
Presently 15 Dossiers are available on the MIC.PT. They're dedicated to the following composers: Paulo Ferreira-Lopes, Sara Carvalho, António Ferreira, António Chagas Rosa, Bruno Gabirro, Christopher Bochmann, Patrícia Sucena de Almeida, Miguel Azguime, Ricardo Ribeiro, Pedro Rebelo, Vítor Rua, João Madureira, António de Sousa Dias, Fernando C. Lapa, Isabel Soveral.

recent PREMIERES

Ricardo Guerreiro
Fresina
July 1, O'culto da Ajuda, Lisbon, Portugal

Paulo Galão, bass clarinet
Philippe Trovão, tenor saxophone
Pedro Frazão, euphonium
Manuel Guimarães, melodica
André Hencleeday, piano
Ricardo Guerreiro, computer

Alexandre Almeida
Mesa para Cinco
July 11, II Eurosax, Casa da Música, Porto, Portugal

BSP soloists: Gilberto Bernardes, Hugo Marinheiro, Isabel Anjo, Jorge Sousa e Marcelo Marques

João Pedro Oliveira
Derivative I
July 13, Carnegie Hall, New York, USA

Alessandro Cazzatto, violin

[ka'mi]
Mirando eu Miranda
24 de Agosto, IV Bienal Música Hoje, Curitiba, Brasil

Ensemble Platypus . Kaoko Amando, soprano . Marianna Oczkowska ,violino . Theresia Schmidinger, clarinete baixo

MIC.PT HIGHLIGHTS

Results of the 1st Edition of the Manuel Emílio Porto National Choral Composition Competition

The Lajes do Pico Municipality, organizer of the Manuel Emílio Porto National Choral Composition Competition in partnership with the Portuguese Music Research & Information Centre and the Portuguese Association for Music Education, has announced the results of the Competition’s 1st Edition; 17 composers submitted their works - 12 in the Mixed Choir and 5 in the White Voices category.
In the first mentioned category the winner title was given to the work Na Mão de Deus by Tomás Sousa Ferreira, with a text by Antero de Quental. In the Mixed Choir category the competition’s jury also distinguished two works with Honourable Mentions - Amar! by Miguel Pereira de Carvalho, based on a poem by Florbela Espanca, and ...tudo vale a pena se a alma não é pequena by Gustavo Silva Pais Gonçalves, with a text by Fernando Pessoa. Regarding the White Voices category, two works were awarded - the winner title was given to Henrique Jonas Simões Piloto for the work Oh, que eco que aqui há, based on traditional Portuguese literature, and the Honourable Mention was given to Ângela Maria Soares da Ponte, composer published to the MIC.PT, for the work Cão, with a poem by Alexandre O'Neill.
The jury of the 1st Edition of the Manuel Emílio Porto National Choral Composition Competition, organized with the aim to promote music creation for choir and giving value to Portuguese literature, consisted of: Christopher Bochmann, composer published by the MIC.PT, Antero Ávila and Jorge Matta.