To mark the 40th anniversary of Miso Music Portugal (1985–2025), the book Sentem Sem Som Cem Sons Sempre — 40 Anos da Miso Music Portugal was released at the São Luiz Municipal Theatre in Lisbon last December. The release event featured a round table conversation moderated by Pedro Boléo, with the participation of Rui Vieira Nery, Teresa Albuquerque, and Pedro Neves, Paula and Miguel Azguime. The programme also included a performance of Miso Ensemble’s piece Constelações (1989) by Clara Saleiro (flute) and Pedro Carneiro (marimba), as well as of two arias from the opera A Laugh to Cry (2013), by the Komorebi Duo, with soprano Camila Mandillo and pianist João Casimiro Almeida.
Miso Music Portugal is an association dedicated to the promotion, development and dissemination of contemporary music. 2025 marked its 40th anniversary, counting from the founding of the Miso Ensemble, formed by Miguel and Paula Azguime. Sentem Sem Som Cem Sons Sempre is a commemorative book and an object that aims to reflect, through various voices, on the intense and fertile journey of the Miso Ensemble and Miso Music, telling stories of an activity that has left, continues to leave and will certainly leave even more relevant marks on Portuguese musical life.

The acousmatic work Ground (2024) by composer Ângela da Ponte (published by MIC.PT), was awarded an Honourable Mention in the Música Viva 2025 International Electroacoustic Composition Competition. The results were announced on December 5 at O’culto da Ajuda in Lisbon, during the Short-Circuit 2025 — Lisbon Electronic Music Festival. Additionally, on January 13, the Remix Ensemble, conducted by Enno Poppe, will perform State of(f) Emergencies at the Casa da Música in Porto. Created by Ângela da Ponte in 2019, this piece is for ensemble and electronics. In this work, the composer addresses pressing issues concerning the collective vulnerability of a crisis-stricken world and the right to dream. Entitled Menos que um suspiro, this concert will also feature Stephanie Wagner (flute) and Digitópia (electronics), and its programme will include works by Ann Cleare, Clara Iannotta and Hèctor Parra.

Dialogue V for flute and accordion, created by composer Christopher Bochmann (published by MIC.PT) in November 2025, will premiere on January 13. The work follows other pieces with the same title, written for different instruments: Dialogue I (1978) for flute and percussion; Dialogue II (1981) for cello and piano; Dialogue III (2009) for violin and bassoon; and Dialogue IV (2015) for bass clarinet and piano. The concert will occur in the Christopher Bochmann Auditorium, located in the Mateus d’Aranda College — a building belonging to the School of Arts of the University of Évora. The work will be performed by flautist Monika Streitová and Gonçalo Pescada on the accordion. The musicians will also perform a work by Portuguese composer João Nascimento. In a 2014 interview with MIC.PT, Christopher Bochmann said: ‘I feel a great affinity with Bach's music. I identify with the idea that music is an extension or an expression of life’.

The work Propagation (2022), for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, cello and live electronics, by Carlos Caires (a composer published by MIC.PT), is included in the programme of the Ensemble DME concert, which will take place on January 31 at the Goethe Institute in Lisbon. Entitled Tensão–Deformação, this concert, which is part of a project by the Arte no Tempo association and will be conducted by maestro Pedro Carneiro, will also feature works by Hèctor Parra, Jaime Reis and Mariana Vieira. The work Propagation was commissioned from Carlos Caires by the Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble and appears on the composer’s monographic album, entitled Os sons em volta and released in 2025 under the Artway label.

The multidisciplinary installation A Máquina do Mundo n’Os Lusíadas, by composer Daniel Schvetz (published by MIC.PT), is on display at the Casa do Parlamento Gallery in Lisbon until January 16. Drawing inspiration from the renowned episode in Canto X of Os Lusíadas by Luís de Camões, marked by scientific knowledge, a universalist vision, and the legacy of Portuguese navigation, the exhibition, according to Daniel Schvetz, is ‘an invitation to explore how science, poetry, and imagination intersected to shape the concept of the cosmos, the Great Machine of the World’. Through this exhibition, the Portuguese Parliament is joining the celebrations for the 500th anniversary of Luís de Camões’ birth.

Pour Annette is a new acousmatic work by composer Jaime Reis (published by MIC.PT). It will premiere on January 7 at Le Senghor in Brussels, Belgium, during a concert celebrating the 80th birthday of Annette Vande Gorne — an electroacoustic music composer and founder of the Musiques & Recherches association, dedicated to acousmatic music. Between January 22 and 25, Jaime Reis will also participate in a residency with the Mixed Music Lab — José Luís Ferreira (EMSL) at the Sabugueiro Creative Hostel (Seia), where works by young composers and students at the Lisbon School of Music (EMSL) will be worked on. Alongside other Laboratory members, they will teach mixed didactic pieces to students at the Seia Conservatory of Music, including compositions by Jaime Reis, Mariana Vieira, and Nuno d’Eça. In addition, Jaime Reis’ works, Sangue Inverso (II): Ametista (A) & Sangue Inverso (II): Granito (A) and Sangue Inverso (III): Cinábrio (A) & Inverso Sangue (III): Obsidiana (A) will be performed by the DME Ensemble, conducted by Pedro Carneiro, as part of the Tensão-Deformação concert, ocurring on the 31st at the Goethe Institute in Lisbon.

Enjoy Freely is the title of a new collaborative experimental piece by João Castro Pinto (a composer published by MIC.PT), and Thanos Kois, the founder, vocalist and leader of Lost Bodies. The piece was released in December 2025 and is included on the band’s latest recording, Hot Stories (double LP). Enjoy Freely is structured around the voice and texts of Thanos Kois, which draw inspiration from the work of Austrian writer Peter Handke — particularly his anti-play Offending the Audience. Lost Bodies are a band founded in Kallithea, on the outskirts of Athens (Greece), in 1984 by Thanos Kois and Antonis Papaspyros. They orbit a vast constellation of genres without settling into any one of them and are known for their anarcho-punk attitude and uncategorisable musical style, which blends biting and sardonic socio-political commentary with experimental avant-garde music (electronic, electroacoustic, minimal), post-punk, industrial, funk and trip hop, among others. This record is an author edition released exclusively on vinyl. Additionally, Giannis Misouridis has produced a video visually illustrating this collaboration. It is available online and enables to listen to the Enjoy Freely in its entirety.

A didactic work by Mariana Vieira (a composer published by MIC.PT) will be worked on by students of the Seia Music Conservatory, during the artistic residency of the ESML Mixed Music Laboratory — José Luís Ferreira, which will occur between January 22 and 25 in Sabugueiro / Seia and the surrounding area. In addition, her work Retracement (2021) is part of the programme for the Tensão–Deformação concert that the Ensemble DME will present on January 31 at the Goethe Institute in Lisbon. Commissioned from Mariana Vieira by the Sond’Ar-te, this piece was written for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, cello and electronics and in this concert, conducted by Pedro Carneiro, it will be performed by Mafalda Carvalho (flute), Carlos Silva (clarinet), Alex Waite (piano), Beatriz Costa (violin) and Ângela Carneiro (cello).

The piece Intermezzo from the opera A Laugh to Cry (2013), by composer Miguel Azguime (published by MIC.PT), is part of the concert by soprano Camila Mandillo and pianist João Casimiro Almeida, which will take place on January 11 at O’culto da Ajuda in Lisbon. Entitled ... And now for something slightly different, this recital, jumping from century to century, brings together pieces by various composers, in which humour, irony and wit are a way of dealing with the complexities of life. In addition, the electroacoustic theatre piece for children and the young, O Rouxinol do Imperador (2006) for narrator and electronics, with music by Miguel Azguime and story by Hans Christian Andersen, will be presented on January 7 at the Colos School Group, as part of the Contos Contados Com Som performances for pupils from various educational cycles.

In December, in the context of the Portuguese 20th and 21st Century Music Notebooks series, the MIC.PT released a new Notebook, #25, dedicated to the composer Amílcar Vasques-Dias. This series of bilingual editions constitutes an ‘introspection’ into each composer’s work, simultaneously being an incentive to explore and (re)discover their music and their reflection on music philosophy and aesthetics. Each Notebook comprises a biographical note, questionnaire/interview or musicological article, two catalogues of works – according to instrumentation and chronological order – and discography. Presently, the following Notebooks are available in print: #1 · Paulo Ferreira-Lopes; #2 · Sara Carvalho; #3 · António Ferreira; #4 · António Chagas Rosa; #5 · Bruno Gabirro; #7 · Patrícia Sucena de Almeida; #10 · Pedro Rebelo; #12 · João Madureira; #13 · António de Sousa Dias · #15 · Isabel Soveral; #16 · Tiago Cutileiro; #18 · João Castro Pinto; #20 · [ka'mi] · #21 · Álvaro Salazar; #23 · Ângela Lopes; #24 · Ângela da Ponte; #25 · Amílcar Vasques-Dias.

Dimitris Andrikopoulos’ new Composer’s Page for was launched on MIC.PT in January. Dimitris Andrikopoulos, who is of Greek origin and based in Portugal, has developed a vast and diverse body of work, encompassing a wide range of formats — from solo and chamber music to orchestral ensembles and electronics. After studying in the Netherlands and later in Birmingham, his music has been performed worldwide by internationally renowned ensembles, including the Asko Ensemble, Mondrian Quartet, Remix Ensemble, Nederlands Ballet Orkest, Orchestre National de Lorraine, the Athens National Orchestra and the Quarteto Contratempus. The composer has also received numerous commissions from leading institutions such as the Foundation for Contemporary Creation of Holland, the Flanders Festival, the 1st Cello Biennale / Proms of Amsterdam, Guimarães 2012, and the Onassis Foundation, to name a few. His discography includes seven albums featuring his own compositions. Dimitris Andrikopoulos is a professor of Composition and a member of the Technical-Scientific Council at the School of Music, Arts and Performance (ESMAE) of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, where he also coordinates the International Relations Office.

Applications are now open for the 3rd Young Chamber Music Season, with concerts scheduled for June 6, 7, 13 and 14 at the O’culto da Ajuda in Lisbon. In this context, the jury composed of Nuno Pinto (clarinettist), Filipe Quaresma (cellist) and Miguel Azguime (composer) will select four chamber music groups for this Season. The concert programmes must include at least one Portuguese piece and one international piece, both from the 20th or 21st centuries. The deadline for submitting applications is March 31, 2026. The Young Chamber Music Season, a project by Miso Music Portugal and the Portuguese Association of Friends of Music, aims to foster chamber music by promoting and encouraging the performance of works by Portuguese composers and supporting young musicians in Portugal.

Presently the MIC.PT YouTube Channel contains 36 new interviews to composers residing in Portugal, realised since 2019; as well as eight interviews from the MIC.PT Archive, realised between 2003 and 2005.
The new interviews, conducted by Pedro Boléo, were filmed at the O’culto da Ajuda in Lisbon and realised in the context of the In the 1st Person cycle of the Music Today and Music of Research & Invention radio broadcasts, produced by the MIC.PT and Miso Music Portugal for the Antena 2. They constitute a (re)visit to the creative universe of various composers published by the MIC.PT, following the Historical Interviews recorded by the MIC.PT almost 15 years ago. Today they are unique registers of the artistic evolution of each interviewed composer.
In order to access the interviews (in Portuguese) follow the links below or visit the MIC.PT YouTube Channel.