NUM 1122
Title: In Omni Tempore
Artist: Ana Telles Antunes, Alexander Stewart, Alexandre Delgado, Jorge Correia
Composer: João Pedro Oliveira
João Pedro Oliveira is one of the most prominent Portuguese composers of his generation. He began his music studies at the Gregorian Institute of Lisbon where he studied organ performance. From 1985 to 1990 he moved to the US as a Fulbright student, with a fellowship from Gulbenkian Foundations, where he completed a PhD and two MA’s in Music at the University of New York at Stony Brook.
Main Prizes:
Magisterium Prize in Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition (France) – 2008
Giga Hertz Award. 2008.
1st Prize in Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition (France) – 2007
1st Prize in Roma Soundtrack Competition (Italy) – 2007
1st Prize in Yamaha-Visiones Sonoras Competition (Mexico) – 2007
1st Prize in Musica Nova competition (Czech Republic) – 2007
1st Prize in Metamorphoses competition (Belgium) – 2006
Honorable Mention in Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition (France) – 2005
Selected work in Tribune Internacionale de Musique Electroacoustique (Italy) – 2005
1st Prize in Musica Nova competition (Czech Republic)- 2005
2nd Prize in S. Paulo Electroacoustic Music Competition (Brasil) – 2005
1st Prize in Earplay competition (USA) – 2003
1st Prize in Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition (France) – 2002
1st Prize in Alea III Competition (USA) – 1996
Recently he has been exploring the possibilities of interaction between instrumental and electroacoustic sounds, and most of his recent works use both media.
He is Senior Professor at Aveiro University (Portugal) and teaches composition, electroacoustic music and analysis. He contributed to the development of a new generation of Portuguese composers, and many of his students already received national and international awards.
He published several articles in journals, and has written a book about analysis and 20th century music theory.
(www.jpoliveira.com)
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NUM 1121
Title: Nova Música de Câmara Portuguesa
Artists: Cesário Costa, António Lourenço, Sebastian Wiegers, Yan Pipal, Trevor Mctait, Oliver Parr, Jonathan Ayest, Hugo Diogo, Alexandre Delgado, Alexander Stewart, Drumming, Miguel Bernat, João Cunha, Rui Rodrigues, Pedro Oliveira, Nuno Aroso
Composers: Sara Carvalho, Isabel Soveral, António Chagas Rosa, João Pedro Oliveira
Anamorphoses V, for string quartet, is part of the Morphoses cycle that includes pieces with electronics and pieces purely instrumental. The different pieces from this cycle, although distinct in form, follow the same criteria of sound material elaboration. In Anamorphoses V, the main sound material of Anamorphoses IV is applied to new contexts and gradually gaining new expressive qualities.
Angkor
The title Angkor derives from Angkor-Vat. I have never been in Cambodja but the stone decoration of the temples, in their endless choreographies and multiple dances are well known to me. This piece was conceived as a dance suite and is rather straight concerning the tempi. The last dance has a virtuoso character for both players and can eventually be played in concert separately, like an encore. The homophony of the words Angkor and encore contains the joke of the title… This piece was written in 1995 for the KammerensembleN of Stockholm for a series of concerts in Sweden and Holland the same year. Since then, Angkor has has been performed in several music festivals, from Caracas to Lisbon, Aveiro and Zurich.
António Chagas Rosa
Blows Hot and Cold – para quarteto de cordas
A percepção de objectos é sempre subjective e pessoal. Cada um de nós o vai sentir, tocar, olhar… de uma forma diferente. Podemos mesmo imaginar-nos dentro do próprio objecto, sentindo vivencias como que se estivesse vivo.
O título do quarteto de cordas partiu de um poster no qual Dexter Gordan fuma um cigarro.
Blows Hot and Cold é a personificação da relação de Dexter Gordon com o seu cigarro.
Sara Carvalho
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Classical & Contemporary Music 