NUM 1133
Title: Jorge Peixinho – Música Para Piano
Artist: Miguel Borges Coelho
Composer: Jorge Peixinho
Miguel Borges Coelho was born in Oporto in 1971. He started his piano studies with Amélia Vilar and proceeded his studies in the Conservatory of Music of Oporto with Isabel Rocha, in whose class he graduated. During this period, he was awarded several prizes at national piano competitions.
As a scholar from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation he attended the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Freiburg im Breisgau with Vitalij Margulis (1990-93) and, in the following three years, the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia, with Dmitri Bashkirov and Galina Egyazarova.
He was awarded the 2nd Prize and the Prize for the best interpretation of contemporary music in the XIV Oporto International Music Competition in October 1997. In 1998, he received the Revelation Prize Ribeiro da Fonte from the Portuguese Ministry of Culture. He has played in some of the most important Portuguese theatres and concert halls, namely, in the opening recitals of the Campo Alegre Theatre and the Concert Hall of the Serralves Foundation. He has also played in numerous international music festivals, such as the Sintra Music Festival, the Póvoa do Varzim Music Festival, Festa da Música in Lisbon, Les Folles Journées in Nantes (France), the Ayamonte International Music Festival and the Encontre Internacional de Compositors de Las Islas Baleares (Spain).
As a soloist, he performed with the Oporto National Orchestra (namely in its opening concert as a symphony orchestra), the APROARTE Orchestra, the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, the Madeira Classical Orchestra, the Regional Orchestra Filarmonia das Beiras, the Gulbenkian Orchestra, and the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra.
He gave the world première performance of pieces by Fernando Lopes Graça and João Pedro Oliveira.
He teaches piano at the School of Music and Performing Arts of Oporto (ESMAE) and at the High School of Music of the Basque Country Musikene.
NUM 1131
Title: Amílcar Vasques Dias – Doze Nocturnos em Teu Nome – Lume De Chão – Tecido De Memórias e Afectos
Artist: Álvaro Teixeira Lopes
Composer: Amílcar Vasques Dias
Do you know why is it so admirable to compose, or to play an instrument? Because, in the first moment, there is nothing at all. It seems that both primordial and natural voids are seated by our side, seducing us. However, in the next imperceptible space of time, there is a surprisingly quiet storm, which expands the figures of sound or image indoors.
Maria Gabriela Llansol, Parasceve (2001).
This all started as an almost private project. The texts written by Maria Gabriela Llansol have a rather strange and magical power of creating a community of affections among its readers. After the complicities derived from the text, Amílcar Vasques-Dias and Álvaro Teixeira Lopes thought about the possibility of musically intertwining their dense fictional universe; and thus was born a true love triangle, to which the ASSÉDIO Theatre Company joined afterwards, adding to it creative shape and the possibility of fulfilment.
It all started with the text itself. We are in the presence of a text intensely opened to the world(s). The awareness of the slightest disturbance of reality, as well as generosity and immensity of possibilities are included in this world. The so called community of affections is also inherent to it, and allows it to inspire any creator and allow him to obtain serenity. After the text comes the music, which vivifies the nocturno in the title – “nocturne” in English -, also provided by Maria Gabriela, in twelve cadences, twelve environments that never tried to superpose themselves to the text, or to explicitly articulate themselves with it. Instead, the music as a whole seeks re-readings, re-conceptualizations, parallelisms, and new spaces.
At a higher level, we recognize games of subtle weaving between the interpreters, a minimal scenic aspect, and finally the possible relations with the audience. The public will capture all the universes, and distribute them in their own fictions.
The em teu nome – “to your name” in English – referred in the title works as a personal but transmittable dedication to whoever reads, sees, or listens to these twelve nocturnes, and relates wholeheartedly.
João Pedro Vaz
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