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Joana Carneiro is the new invited Conductress of Gulbenkian Orchestra
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Joana Carneiro will be the new invited conductress of the Gulbenkian Orchestra for the season of 2006/2007. For the past two years, Joana Carneiro had colaborated with this institution, with positive results. She had participated in the Maazel-Vila Conductor's Competition, where she was a finalist and invited to conduct one of the laureate concerts of that event. Joana Carneiro has seen her carreer recognized by the most important European and American promoters and conductors.
Joana Carneiro is the the second female person in the Calouste Gulbenkian Orchestra over the past years, after the confirmation that Australian conductress Simone Young will assume that same role in the season of 2007/2008.
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
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Helena Sá e Costa (1913-2006)
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Pianist Helena Sá e Costa died in the past 8th of January, in Oporto. Born in that same city in 1913, she was an internationally renowned performer. She was the daughter of composer Luiz Costa and pianist Leonilde Moreira de Sá e Costa, and grandaughter of the violinist Bernardo Moreira de Sá. With her sister, Madalena Sá e Costa, she presented several chamber music works of portuguese and foreign composers, and they where both played in Portugália Trio, with violinist Henri Mouton. She played as a soloist with the most important world orchestras, and was notable as a teacher, namely of Adriano Jordão and Pedro Burmester. Unfortunately, Helena Sá e Costa didn't leave behing a vast discography; some of the records she made in the 1960's and 1970's, with works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Fernando Corrêa de Oliviera are currently out of print.
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Public presentation of the Portuguese Music Information Centre
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6th January 2006 | 6:00 pm
Camões Institute
The Portuguese Music Information Centre (CIMP) was presented in a public session in the Camões Institute, in Lisbon, and it was moderated by the composer António Pinho Vargas and the musicologist Rui Vieira Nery.
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At this moment, the PMIC has information of 200 composers of the 20th and 21th centuries, half of them available online. Among the resources, there are 5.500 works, 90 performers and 3.000 documents and catalogued documents, as well as videos, audio, images, photos, excerpts of scores, critical and analytical texts commissioned to Portuguese and foreign musicologists.
The information can be accessed by a registation form, free from charge, through five main sections: Composers, Performers, Works, Documents and Musical Resources.
www.mic.pt
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Miguel Azguime - DAAD scholarship
for 2006
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By invitation of Akademischer Austausch Dienst / Berlin Artists-in-Residence programme, Miguel Azguime will be in Berlin from January to June 2006 as a composer in residence.
During that period, Miguel Azguime will compose a string quartet, a new work for solo flute dedicated to Paula Azguime and a work for Ensemble and Choir, all of them with use of electronics.
This is the second time that this grant is given to a Portuguese composer.
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Christopher Bochmann Tribute
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On the 1st of December 2005, Christopher Bochmann will be in London to receive the Order of the British Empire by Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II.
This grant is the institutional recognition, in the highest level, of the work developed in 35 years of professional dedication to music teaching, and in particular, of the efforts carried by Christopher Bochmann in the cultural relationships between Portugal and Great Britain in this past quarter of century.
The Portuguese Public Radio (RDP), Antena 2, also participates in this tribute by dedicating three hour program exclusively dedicated to this composer, specifically produced for this occasion by composer Pedro Amaral.
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Two awards for João Pedro Oliveira
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CIMESP Award
Composer João Pedro Oliveira has received a second award prize of São Paulo's International Electroacoustic Music Competition. His work Time Spell, for clarinet and electroacoustic sounds in 6 channels, was written in 2003 after a comission of the Institut de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges, and it was premiered in that same year in France. The award includes the release of this work in CD. 165 international works were received in this competition.
New Music Award
Composer João Pedro Oliveira has received
the first award in the New Music International Competition (Czech Republic), in the category of instrument and electroacoustics. The awarded work, A Escada Estreita, for flute and electroacoustics, was written in 1999 after a commission of the University of Aveiro, with the support of the Institute for the Arts. 110 works of 32 countries ran for this year's edition of the competition.
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Reopening of the Portuguese Music Museum - Verdades de Faria House
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On the 27th October 2005, the Verdades de Faria House - Portuguese Music Museum reopened to the public, after having undergone some rehabilitation works.
This museum, holds the private collections of composer Fernando Lopes-Graça and the ethnomusicologist Michel Giacometti, who worked together in the constitution of the Portuguese Sound Archive.
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This museum has the mission to preserve, conserve, study and disseminate Portuguese musical heritage, and developed initiatives within the framework of research, conservation, documentation, communication and education, with a permanent cultural activity of temporary exhibitions, concerts, conferences, guided visits and educational initiative programmes. It also organises the annual Lopes-Graça Musical Composition Prize.
Av. Sabóia, nº1446 - Monte - Estoril
Tel.: 214825494
e-mail.: mmp@cm-cascais.pt |
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Presentation of the English version of the
PORTUGUESE MUSIC INFORMATION CENTRE
On the 29th of September 2005, the English version of the PORTUGUESE MUSIC INFORMATION CENTRE was presented in New York, in IAMIC's (International Association of Music Information Centres) International Conference.
Linking Portuguese music to the world:
The PORTUGUESE MUSIC INFORMATION CENTRE was conceived as a public service in order to fill a void as regards Portuguese contemporary music, in terms of promotion and availability in Portugal and abroad.
The mission of the Portuguese Music Information Centre is to facilitate and encourage the performance and understanding of music by Portuguese composers throughout the world by offering an interactive database.
Since the 25th of September the PORTUGUESE MUSIC INFORMATION CENTRE will be linked to MUSIC NAVIGATOR, a webportal where you can find direct information of all the World Music Information Centres.
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Música Viva Electroacoustic Composition Competition 2005 Results
Miso Music Portugal has the pleasure of announcing the results of the 6th Edition of the Música Viva Competition. This year, we've received 131 works of composers from 33 different countries. The jury was composed by Annette Vande Gorne (Belgium), Marek Choloniewski (Poland) and Miguel Azguime (Portugal), and the following works were selected:
PRIZE WINNERS
Anechoic Pulse by PANAYIOTIS KOKORAS (Greece)
Tynajas by SANTIAGO T. DÍEZ FISCHER (Argentina)
In Rota by PEDRO DOS SANTOS FARIA DE ALMEIDA (Portugal)
MENTIONS
Kotmun by KIM SUK-JUN (South Corea)
A.S.R. (aka Daedalus XXI) by RUI MIGUEL DIAS (Portugal)
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Children's Art Centre of Poznan Prize
Simão Costa, pianist and composer, won the third composition prize of the Children's Art Centre of Poznan with his electroacoustic work "OAMIS TEL".
>> www.cacpoznan.sylaba.pl/en/konkurs_utwor.htm
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