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Activities of the Composers Published by the MIC.PT
 José Luís Peixoto’s book Galveias is the theme of the third concert at the fifth CriaSons Festival (a Musicamera Produções initiative), with musical direction and music by composer Amílcar Vasques-Dias (published by MIC.PT), who lives in Alentejo and ‘has based his works on Alentejo choral music’. This is ‘a concert of more popular music’, which will be performed by the composer himself on the piano, who will also conduct an ensemble with Paulo Gaspar (bass clarinet), Pedro Tavares (percussion), Pedro Santos (accordion) and Luís Pacheco Cunha (violin). The concert will occur on February 7 at the Marvila Library (Lisbon). A week later, on the 14th, this time at the Liceu Camões Library in Lisbon, there will be a Meeting in Dialogue in which José Luís Peixoto and Amílcar Vasques-Dias will share a conversation and musical performance, ‘guided by a moderator who will mediate this dialogue between two morphologically distinct languages, in a tendentially improvised register, perhaps achieving unexpected approximations between them.’
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 The piece Divertimento (2017) by Ângela da Ponte (a composer published by MIC.PT) is part of the programme for the Fifty-Fifty recital that violist Trevor McTait will present on February 14 at O’culto da Ajuda, in Lisbon. This project, which also includes pieces by other composers published by MIC.PT, namely Daniel Moreira, Eduardo Luís Patriarca, Hugo Vasco Reis, Igor C. Silva, and Miguel Azguime, is a celebration of contemporary creation, materialised in the release of a new album dedicated to works for solo viola and electronics, composed by Portuguese authors and recorded for the first time. On the same day, the music of Ângela da Ponte will also be presented as part of the Nativo recital by percussionist Tiago Manuel Soares, which will take place at the Dias da Percussão Portimão 2026 festival. The recital, which ‘explores new aesthetics within a contemporary vision of the diversity of Portuguese intangible heritage’, also includes music by Filipe Fernandes and Fernando C. Lapa, who is also a composer published by MIC.PT.
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The installation Lugares Invisíveis MUSEU, by composer Carlos Caires (published by MIC.PT), will open on February 7 at the National Music Museum in Mafra. The installation features the concept, programming, real-time interaction and sound design by Carlos Caires, as well as the generative visuals and real-time interaction by Andrea Tamburrino — TAMBOO. Invisible Places MUSEUM is an installation consisting of a highly interactive space in which participants use their hands to activate and manipulate an immersive sound system in dialogue with a visual component. This work was initiated within the framework of the symposium, Culture and Sustainability: DME 2020 Project, and has since been developed and presented in various contexts. In this version, created especially for the National Museum of Music, the installation features an interactive generative video component.
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The work Antologia do Tempo: 2. Ritual — fluxo contínuo by composer Daniel Martinho (published by MIC.PT) will be presented on February 24 at Casa da Música in Porto. This work, intended for 17 instrumentalists, belongs to the triptych Antologia do Tempo ( Génese; Ritual; Apogeu), composed in 2010, which, as Daniel Martinho says in an interview with MIC.PT, ‘was a moment of aesthetic affirmation and structural maturity’. The concert at Casa da Música, entitled Folk Songs, will feature the Remix Ensemble, Eduarda Melo (mezzo-soprano) and Ilan Volkov (conductor), who will also perform works by Hèctor Parra, François-Bernard Mâche, Johannes Schöllhorn and Luciano Berio. In addition, the pieces Saudade and No Barriers, by Daniel Martinho, are part of the recitals by NoMad Duo — Ricardo Antão (euphonium) and Jonathan Silva (percussion) — which will occur in Tokyo, Japan, on February 12 and 14.
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 The work Curta-metragem n.º 2 (Brumas de outono), for solo cimbalom, by composer Daniel Moreira (published by MIC.PT), was selected for the 2026 World New Music Days festival, as part of the official application by Miso Music Portugal / MIC.PT as the Portuguese section of the ISCM (International Society for Contemporary Music). The WNMD 2026, subtitled Columna Infinită and organised by the Romanian ISCM Section, will take place between May 23 and 31 in Bucharest, Romania. In addition, in February, Daniel Moreira will have two of his works performed in Portugal. On the 13th, Drumming GP will premiere the piece As mãos misteriosas (2026) as part of the Dias da Percussão Portimão 2026 festival, at the Municipal Theatre of Portimão. The following day, February 14, at O’culto da Ajuda in Lisbon, violist Trevor McTait will perform the piece Noctis Lumina, composed by Daniel Moreira in 2007. Finally, the composer’s article, Weird, Menacing, and Colourful: Bernard Herrmann’s Harmonic Polytonality, was published in Music Theory Online, one of the leading international journals of music theory and analysis.
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 The work Trégua, a joint creation by Diogo Alvim (a composer published by MIC.PT), Renato Ferrão and André Maranha, is on display until February 6 at the Fidelidade Arte Gallery in Lisbon. According to the programme notes: ‘Challenged to conceive a project for the space of this gallery and for this particular moment, the artists present a proposal that has taken the form of an environment. Instead of a material occupation of the gallery rooms, Trégua summons the memory of their countless uses to make a palimpsest of voices: the intangible breath of their echoes making a retreat present.’ Trégua is yet another project that was born out of the twenty-year artistic collaboration between Galeria Fidelidade Arte and Culturgest. Additionally, in the second half of the month, more precisely on February 28, Diogo Alvim’s project Solo will be presented at Fábrica da Criatividade, in Castelo Branco, as part of the Multiverso Festival. This time, Solo will be performed as a concert piece, prepared during a workshop with students from the School of Applied Arts at the Polytechnic Institute in Castelo Branco.
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 The premiere of the work Peace and Liberty (2025), for choir, harp, viola and cello, by composer Gerson Batista (published by MIC.PT), will take place on February 1 at the Claudio Monteverdi Conservatory in Bolzano (Italy). The occasion will be the concert of the finalists of the Freedom and Peace — International Composition Competition. In the programme notes for Peace and Liberty, Gerson Batista reveals that ‘this piece emerged after several weeks reflecting on what peace truly means’. He adds: ‘I came to realise that it goes far beyond just mere tranquillity or calm. Peace is not passive; it’s courageous, complex, and essentially an odyssey, a myth, a spiritual journey. Whether personal or social, peace takes work. Peace demands!’ The competition is an initiative of the Südtiroler Künstlerbunde and its theme is aligned with the broader context of South Tyrol, a region with a complex history marked by ethnic tensions. The arts in this European region serve to explore themes such as identity, history and social issues.
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 Three works by Hugo Vasco Reis (a composer published by MIC.PT) will be performed during February. Created and premiered in 2025, in response to a commission from Síntese — Grupo de Música Contemporânea, the piece Vulnerabilidade will be performed by this ensemble in four concerts: on February 6 and 7, respectively, in Reguengos de Monsaraz and Loulé, and on February 16 and 17, respectively, in Dublin (Ireland) and Belfast (Northern Ireland). On February 14, at O’culto da Ajuda in Lisbon, violist Trevor McTait will perform Hugo Vasco Reis’s Imago (2024) for viola and electronics, as part of the Fifty-Fifty recital. Then, on the 27th, pianist João Casimiro Almeida will present the work Metamorphosis and Resonances (2014) at Lisboa Incomum. The programme for this concert, entitled Espectros and featuring soprano and musicologist Sara Maia, will also include works by Cândido Lima (a composer published by MIC.PT), Inés Badalo, Luigi Nono, and Solange Azevedo (a composer published by MIC.PT).
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In February, three works by composer Igor C. Silva (published by MIC.PT) will be performed in Belgium, Portugal and Germany. On the 11th, the piece Plastic Air (2017), for flexible duo, electronics and video/light, will be performed at MIRY Concertzaal in Ghent, as part of a concert performed by the Klinck Trio and dudal & de Roover. On the 14th, the piece Terminus, composed by Igor C. Silva in 2009 for viola, live electronics and light, will be performed by Trevor McTait as part of the Fifty-Fifty recital at O’cutlo da Ajuda in Lisbon. The third Igor C. Silva’s work is Hypernormalization (2018), for voice, percussion and electronics, which will premiere in Germany on the 20th at the Kulturbunker Köln-Mülheim in Cologne, as part of the IN_FUSE project by the Unfeed Format ensemble. IN_FUSE is a project that crosses various genres, representing a lively confrontation between the experimental contemporary music and dark techno, experimental electronic music and club culture.
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During the month of February, composer Miguel Azguime (published by MIC.PT) will have two of his works performed in Portugal and England. On February 14, violist Trevor McTait will perform the 2018 work Dedans-Dehors for viola and electronics as part of the Fifty-Fifty recital, which will take place at O’culto da Ajuda in Lisbon. In the second half of the month, on the 26th, Miquel Bernat will give the world premiere of Mineralizando!, for solo vibraphone, which Miguel Azguime wrote for this percussionist and artistic director of Drumming — Percussion Group. In this concert, which will take place at the Martin Harris Centre at the University of Manchester, England, Miquel Bernat will perform, in addition to the premiere of Miguel Azguime’s work, several other pieces that have never been performed in the UK. It will be ‘an encounter where history, imagination, and the avant-garde merge to keep artistic creation vibrantly alive’.
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RIZOMA
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riZoma · Portuguese Platform for Intervention and Research in New Music
A network formed by various entities, linked to the creation, education, performance and research, with experience within contemporary classical music. The riZoma Platform establishes a dialogue between these entities, allowing them to speak in one voice with the audiences and trusteeship, to emphasise the effort perpetrated by many and to create a new force settled on the priceless value which contemporary classical music cerated in Portugal has for the country’s identity.
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Music of Invention & Research
 illustrative image · 13/02 · 1h00 a.m. · Antena 2 · New CDs with music by Portuguese composers
This radio broadcast presents two new CD releases featuring contemporary Portuguese music. In the first part, we present the double album Kokyuu, which includes five works by composer Luís Tinoco for soloist and orchestra, with the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra and the Porto Symphony Orchestra — Casa da Música, and soloists Ricardo Toscano (alto saxophone), Lívia Nestrovski (voice), Filipe Quaresma (cello), João Barradas (accordion) and Horácio Ferreira (clarinet). In the second part of the programme, we will hear compositions from the album Oboé+, in which oboist Tiago Coimbra performs works by António Chagas Rosa, Carlos Caires, Cândido Lima, João Moreira, Fábio Chicotio, Sérgio Azevedo, Tiago Jesus, Mariana Vieira and Luís Carvalho. Both albums are recent releases from Artway Records. |
· 27/02 · 1h00 a.m. · Antena 2 · In the 1st Person with Pedro Pinto Figueiredo
A programme within the In the 1st Person cycle, with interviews with composers to learn more about their latest music, their creative journey, their working methods and their ideas about composition. In this episode, we talk to composer Pedro Pinto Figueiredo, who is also a teacher and conductor. His works are mainly in the field of chamber music, for ensembles, duos or solo instruments. Pedro Pinto Figueiredo has been interested in the use of new technologies, particularly in the field of live electronic sound processing. The composer is also the artistic director of the Lisbon Ensemble XX/XXI, a group dedicated to the performance of contemporary music. An interview conducted by Pedro Boléo, with time to listen to some of the interviewed composer’s musical works. |
New Scores on MIC.PT
illustrative image The score edition by the MIC.PT aims to distribute scores of works by Portuguese composers, making them available online and thus promoting the choice of Portuguese music among musicians, programmers, and researchers. Currently, the MIC.PT Score Catalogue contains 1199 works.
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João Quinteiro (JQui0010)
a circunferência do peito (2025) · instrumental ensemble
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Miguel Azguime (MA0046)
Três Cantos para Libertar o A(r) (2021) · four voices
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NEW CDs on MIC.PT
Recent Premieres
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07/01, Le Senghor, Brussels, Belgium
electroacoustic music
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13/01, Mateus d’Aranda College, University of Évora
Monika Streitová (flute), Gonçalo Pescada (accordion)
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Music for SIBELA e DIGOO>> see work21/01, 14.ª Mostra de Dança NANT, Teatro Viriato, Viseu
A creation by Tânia Carvalho for Dançando com a Diferença · Diogo Freitas, Isabel Teixeira (performers)
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31/01, Misericórdia Church, Santarém
Manuel Brás da Costa (countertenor), Ilda Rodrigues (piano)
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The work Ambos (2019), for saxophone and cello, by composer Pedro Rebelo (published by MIC.PT), will be performed in four concerts by Síntese — Contemporary Music Group, in Portugal, Ireland and Northern Ireland. The first two performances will occur on February 6 and 7, respectively, at the Alberto Janes Municipal Auditorium in Reguengos de Monsaraz and the Francisco Rosado Music Conservatory Auditorium in Loulé. The Irish concerts by Síntese — GMC will take place on the 16th and 17th, respectively, at the Kirkos Ensemble Venue in Dublin and at the Sonic Lab SARC at Queen’s University in Belfast. Pedro Rebelo’s Ambos was commissioned from the composer by Síntese — GMC, an ensemble from Guarda which, since its foundation, has commissioned and premiered more than 70 works by Portuguese composers of different generations and aesthetic visions.
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The work Le départ de l’ombre (2026), for saxophone, accordion and double bass, by composer Sara Carvalho (published by MIC.PT), will be premiered by the Lontano Trio on February 7 at the Castelo Branco Contemporary Culture Centre, as part of the project Do Barro ao Som — Homenagem a Cargaleiro. The Lontano Trio, consisting of Clara Gonçalves (saxophone), Francisco Martins (accordion) and Pedro Vasquinho (double bass), is a chamber music group formed at the Castelo Branco School of Applied Arts in September 2019, under the artistic guidance of Paulo Jorge Ferreira. The trio won 2nd prize in the Folefest 2020 Competition, in the Higher Level Chamber Music Category, an achievement they repeated at the same event in 2021. The trio has participated in several concerts, with the aim to promote the existing and new repertoire for this less conventional instrumental line-up.
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Kinesis: images and sound movements is the title of the concert by Drumming — Percussion Group, which will take place on February 13 as part of the Dias da Percussão Portimão 2026 festival. In this concert, Drumming GP, with percussionist and soloist Vasco Ramalho as special guest, will premiere two works by composers Ricardo Ribeiro and Vítor Rua (published by MIC.PT). The former composer’s work, Eppur, was composed in 2025 for solo marimba and four percussionists, in response to a commission from the Dias da Percussão Portimão 2026 festival. The piece by Vítor Rua, also dating from 2025, is for small percussion quartet and is entitled No Eco de Quatro Gestos Mínimos, o Mundo Abre-se em Partículas Sonoras que se Dilatam como Constelações em Expansão, onde cada Vibração Simples é Transformada em Abismo, Memória e Vertigem.
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The NoMad Duo, consisting of Ricardo Antão (euphonium) and Jonathan Silva (percussion), will be touring Japan in the first half of February, when they will give two concerts in Tokyo: on the 12th, at Space Do, in Shin-Okubo, and on the 14th, at the Embassy of Portugal. The programme for these concerts will include works by three composers published by MIC.PT: Daniel Martinho ( Saudade e No Barriers), Francisco Ribeiro ( Alicerces Japoneses e Little Song for Empathy) and Paulo Bastos ( Adiós). In addition, NoMad Duo will also perform music by Camila Menino, Egberto Gismonti (arr. Francisco Ribeiro) and Telmo Marques while in Japan. NoMad Duo was founded in 2019 and aims to promote and encourage the creation of new musical works that combine euphonium and percussion.
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FEATURED NEWS
Registration is now open for the third edition of the Corpos Sonoros ( Sound Bodies) project, an initiative by Projecto DME and Lisboa Incomum that combines sound art, sculpture, installation and community performance. Aimed at the general public, participation in the project does not require prior musical knowledge and invites anyone who values exploring new ways of listening and creating. The collective creation sessions, led by composer Jaime Reis (published by MIC.PT) and percussionist Francisco Cipriano (soloist with the DME Ensemble), will take place at Lisboa Incomum on February 21 and 28, and March 1, 7 and 8, culminating in a performance/installation on March 14 and 15, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in Lisbon. In the first phase, participants will create and explore different sounds using musical instruments built by Francisco Cipriano. In the second phase, a database will be created with recordings made during the sessions. This repository will serve as the basis for the creation of a brand new acousmatic piece by Jaime Reis, based on the sounds generated by the instruments designed as part of the Corpos Sonoros III project.
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 Ana Luísa Amaral
MPMP Património Musical Vivo is promoting the seventh edition of the Musa Prize, challenging composers of all ages and nationalities to create vocal and piano pieces inspired by the poetry of Ana Luísa Amaral, one of the most luminous and intimate voices in contemporary Portuguese literature. Entries must be unpublished, have a maximum duration of 10 minutes, and use text based on the poet’s work. As is customary with the Musa Prize, the texts must include at least one excerpt in Portuguese to contribute to preserving the language as a vehicle for artistic expression. The winning piece will be performed at the Projeto:Canção festival, and the Prize jury will comprise Amílcar Vasques-Dias, Inés Badalo and Pedro Costa. The deadline for submitting applications is February 15, 2026.
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Lá nas Árvores, a project integrated into the Évora 27 — European Capital of Culture programme, announces an open call for musical works for its second cycle, Levantar Voo, which will take place between April 9 and 12 in Évora. The Lá nas Árvores project is organised by the University of Évora, DME Project and Lisboa Incomum, under the artistic direction of professor and pianist Ana Telles. The call is open to composers and sound artists of all nationalities and ages. The selected works may be presented in the sound installation during the festival, in the acousmatic concert on April 12, or in both contexts. Each participant may submit one work for the installation, one work for the concert, or the same work for both categories. All submitted works must be related to the theme of soundscape, particularly aerial soundscapes. The deadline for applications is February 13.
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 Álvaro García de Zúñiga The Casa de Mateus Foundation, in collaboration with the Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble and the blablaLab Cultural Association, promotes the second edition of the Álvaro García de Zúñiga — Casa de Mateus — Sond’Ar-te International Lied Composition Competition. This competition aims to stimulate the creation, performance, and dissemination of new Lied works, encouraging the combination of voice with instruments and the potential inclusion of electroacoustic elements. The competition is open to composers of all nationalities, who may submit up to two original compositions that have neither been premiered, commercially published, nor awarded in other competitions. The works must have a duration of between 7 and 15 minutes and should be written for a duo. The texts chosen for the compositions must be based on the works of Álvaro García de Zúñiga, whose suggested texts are available on the websites of the partner organisations. The deadline for submissions has been extended until March 1, 2026.
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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.
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 ilustrative image To promote and encourage the creation of contemporary classical music and to disseminate the work of young composers, the Portuguese Authors Society and RTP/Antena 2 are holding another SPA / Antena 2 Composition Prize. The competition is open to composers of Portuguese nationality, or to foreigners who have been resident in Portugal for more than four years, who were born on or after January 1, 1991. Submitted works must be unpublished, purely orchestral pieces, with no use of soloists or electronic media. The premiere of the winning piece, performed by the Gulbenkian Orchestra, will take place at the 16th Young Musicians Festival in the Grand Auditorium of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon on September 17, 2026.
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MIC.PT Interviews
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.
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