NUM 1162
Title: Miguel Torga – Retratos e Paisagens
Artists: Jose Pinto, Camerata Senza Misura, Angélica Neto, Jorge Correia, Paulo Vaz de Carvalho
Composers: Carlos Azevedo, Paulo Vaz de Carvalho, Jesús Legido, Rudesindo Soutelo
We were requested to make a musical Homage to Miguel Torga and we have brought, through music, some portraits and landscapes that he wrote in prose and poetry. The music was composed by Carlos Azevedo, Eurico Carrapatoso, Fernando Lapa who were born and inspired by the harvest land; Paulo Vaz de Carvalho was born, departed and returned early to his homeland; Rudesindo Soutelo, a musician from Galiza and Jesús Legido, from Castela, heard the others say: “Benvindos ao reino maravilhoso!” (Welcome to the wonderful kingdom!).
Soutelo played the crow in “Vicente”— the one that exchanged his boat for freedom; Legido sang “Lembranças” (Memories). Upon the blue of the score, Lapa and Azevedo scribbled, in pale green, “Doiro” travelling inland and making a stop at “S. Leonardo de Galafura”, while Carvalho stood contemplating “A um Negrilho” (elm-tree) until it dried. Eurico eternalizes his river’s torrential splendor in “ O Mar” (The Sea) which he coupled with “Requiem por mim” (Requiem for me).
Torga’s writing has the dry hope of seeds, which can be born in any art, so we requested painters for Portraits and landscapes. The paintings were executed by Alberto Péssimo, Albuquerque Mendes, Benedita Kendall, Cristina Valadas, Evelina Oliveira, Graça Morais, Gracinda Marques, Henrique Silva, Isabel Padrão, Joana Rêgo, José Emídio, Luís Melo, Luísa Gonçalves and Teresa Gil. The resulting exhibition was presented in Portugal and Spain.
João Botelho conserved the memory of all this shooting “A terra antes do céu” (The earth before the sky) that premiered in Doc Lisboa 2007 and can be found in DVD.
In this manner the memory of the centenary of the writer was preserved in new and diversified works on canvas, cinema, and through written and recorded sound.
Each one, in his own way, chose which Torga to be.
Paulo Vaz de Carvalho
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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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