João Loureiro plays portuguese composers at St. Clement's Church

João Loureiro, guitar

19th of July, 2008 | 7:30 P.M.
St. Clement's Church, London, UK

Programme:
J.S. Bach, Assad, Alberniz, Carlos Seixas, Duarte Costa and adaptations of portuguese folk and fado songs.

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Hugo Ribeiro's Gestures III premieres at the Deal Festival 2008

Trumpets:
Victoria Curran
Josephine Harris
Clare Helsdon
Nicole Lyons

Steve Burke, Percussion

11th of July, 2008 | 1:00 P.M.
St Andrew's Church, Deal, UK

Programme:
Benjamin Britten, Fanfare for St Edmundsbury                  
Henry Purcell, Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary
Peter Maxwell Davies, Telos 135                                       
Hugo Ribeiro, Gestures III *     

Paul Whitmarsh, Berceuse in a Box                                   
Paul Max Edlin, The First Four Trumpets


* (commissioned by the Deal Festival) Premiere

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"Em Fuga" from composer and poet Miguel Azguime premieres at the poesie-festival berlin

Miguel Azguime's "Em Fuga" commissioned by the poesie-festival berlin will be premiere at the e.poesie concert on the 9th of July, 8 pm at the Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, Studio.
This work was made with the cooperation of the suiss poet Christian Uetz.

This edition of the poesie-festival berlin includes in its program several portuguese poets and artists in Berlin, city where Miguel Azguime is partialy living since his residency at the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst / German Academic Exchange Service) and Berlin Artists-in-Residence programme, Berliner Künstlerprogramm in 2006.

9th of July, 2008 | 8:00 P.M.
Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, Studio, Berlin, Germany

Five Premieres of
AGF alias Antye Greie Germany Ann Cotten USA/Germany
Frank Niehusmann Germany Bas Böttcher Germany
Miguel Azguime Portugal Christian Uetz Switzerland
Vit Zouhar Czech Republic Peter Waterhouse Austria
Sidney Corbett USA Johannes Jansen Germany

They follow the melody lines of the poetry, fuse them with sound elements from electronic music and create spaces from rhythm, movement and tone. Five composers of electronic music are providing a soundtrack for the works of contemporary German poets.

With kind support of: Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD, Botschaft der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, Instituto Camões, Kadmos Produktion, Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e. V., Pro Helvetia, Schweizer Kulturstiftung, Tschechisches Zentrum Berlin, ohrenstrand.net

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Portuguese composers at the XIX Festival Forfest Czech Republic 2008

Trio Persona / Portugal /
Natálie Grossmannová – flute
Filipe Alexandre Antunes Silva Freitas – oboe
Joana Margarida dos Santos Vieira - piano

29th of June, 2008 | 2:00 P.M.
St. John Baptist Church, Kromeriz, Czech Republic

Programme:
** Ian Clarke "Orange Dawn"
** Christopher Bochmann “Commentaire sur Le Christ ressuscit”
** Jan Grossmann "Posli to dál“
Olivier Messiaen "Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jesus", XI. Premiere Communion de la Vierge, XIII Noël
** Jan Grossmann "Natalis solis invicti"
*** Sérgio Azevedo "Três Visoes Místicas" - “Three Mistic Visions” 

** National premiere
*** Absolut premiere

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Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble celebrates the 50th anniversary of the birth of the composer Enrique X. Macías with 3 concerts in Galicia - Spain

Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble
Pedro Amaral: conductor
Monika Duarte Streitova: flute
Nuno Pinto: clarinet
Suzanna Lidegran: violin
Marco Pereira: cello
Ana Telles: piano

Invited musicians:
Jorge Alves: viola
Laurent Rossi: trompa
João Dias: percussion

Miso Studio - sound projection e live electronic

25th of May, 2008 | 8:30 P.M
Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo (MARCO), Vigo, Spain

23rd of May, 2008 | 8:30 P.M
Salón Teatro, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

22nd of May, 2008 | 8:30 P.M
Teatro Rosalía de Castro, A Coruña, Spain

Programme:
Enrique X. Macías - Adhuc
Miguel Azguime - Derrière Son Double
Enrique X. Macías - Cadências e Interlúdios / Percurso I
Enrique X. Macías - Itinerário de Luz

With the support of the Dirección Xeral de Creación e Difusión Cultural / Consellería de Cultura da Xunta de Galicia.

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Oxford • UK • April 2008
Oxford Contemporary Music

April 25, 2008 | 7:30 P.M.
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, Oxford, UK

Miso Ensemble "The Air in the Words Awakens an Inner Sound

Paula Azguime & Miguel Azguime - concept, staging & dramaturgy
Miguel Azguime - texts/ poems
Miguel Azguime - performer
Paula Azguime - sound projection and live electronics

April 26, 2008 | 7:30 P.M.
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, Oxford, UK

SMITH QUARTET

Pedro Amaral - Quarteto nº2 - world premiere - commission from Miso Music Portugal
Carlos Caires - Horizon; commission from Miso Music Portugal
Miguel Azguime - Paraitre Parmi
Andrew Poppy - Hatch
Steve Reich - Triple Quartet
Michael Gordon - Potassium

Smith Quartet
Ian Humphries - violin
Darragh Morgan - violin
Nick Pendlebury - viola
Deirdre Cooper - cello
Miso Studio - sound projection and live electronics

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Co-produced by British CouncilSupport:Instituto Camões

"The Air in the Words Awakens an Inner Sound



Pedro Amaral

World premiere of the new work from Paulo Ferreira-Lopes

" ...eu hei-de Voltar" - Paulo Ferreira-Lopes

for Ensemble, Mezzo Sopran, Male Voice , video and Live Electronics

text - António Lobo Antunes

April 25, 2008
ZKM, Karlsruhe - Germany

June 6, 2008
Anfiteatro X, University Paris8, Paris, France

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Paulo Ferreira-Lopes

A Rainha Louca from Alexandre Delgado at the Prague Premieres 2008 Festival

Hradec Králové Philharmonic Orchestra
Andreas S., Conductor

Abril 1, 2008 | 7:30 P.M.
Prague Premieres 2008 Festival, Dvorak Hall, Prague, Czech Republic

Programme:
Alexandre Delgado: Rainha Louca (The Mad Queen) overture to the opera
Lukás Hurník: Koncert pro housle
Olga Jezková: Zlutocerveny plakát
Christophe Maudot: La mesure des Parques
David del Puerto: Sinfonía No.1 "Boreas"

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