NUM 1138
Title: Festival Internacional de Música da Póvoa de Varzim
Artists:
Orquestra Sinfónica da Póvoa de Varzim, Osvaldo Ferreira (conductor), António Carrilho (flute), Elsa Marques Silva (piano), Pedro Meireles( viola)
Composers: Cândido Lima, Isabel Soveral, Fernando C. Lapa, Sérgio Azevedo
Sérgio Azevedo was born in Coimbra in 1968. He studied composition at the Academia de Amadores de Música (Lisbon) with composer Fernando Lopes-Graça, and finished his studies of composition at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, with Christopher Bochmann (a disciple of the mythic Nadia Boulanger) and Constança Capdeville. Azevedo followed several seminars at IRCAM and other institutions, and worked in short periods with composers like Emmanuel Nunes (at the Gulbenkian Foundation), Tristan Murail, Phillipe Manoury, Luca Francesconi, Mary Finsterer, Jorge Peixinho, Louis Andriessen and Simon Bainbridge. Azevedo won several prizes of composition, in Portugal and abroad (prizes like the United Nations Prize), and his works have been played and commissioned regularly in several countries (Spain, France, United Kingdom, Austria, Germany, Bulgaria, Brasil, Colombia, Canada, USA, etc) by prestigious ensembles, soloists and conductors (Luca Pfaff, Nikolai Lalov, Brian Schembri, Fabian Panisello, Bruno Belthoise, Aline Czerny, Lorraine Vaillancourt, Artur Pizarro, António Rosado, Anne Kaasa, Marc Foster, Jose Ramon Encinar, Brian Schembri, Ronald Corp, Galliard Ensemble, Proyecto Gerhard, Le Concert Impromptu, Remix Ensemble, Ensemble Télémaque, Plural Ensemble, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, etc), some of them being available in score and commercial CD. Azevedo works frequently with schools and students, composing a great deal of didactic pieces, ranging from piano solo to small ensembles and even school orchestras. He is also a prolific writer on music, and published in 1999 the book Inventing Sounds, besides a lot of music articles, CD covers, lectures, etc. In 2006 three more books on music are due to be release in Portugal. He also contributes to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and works for other prestigious magazines and CD labels. In 1993 Azevedo was appointed teacher of composition at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa. He is also author of broadcastings at RDP – Antena 2 since 1993, and member of the CESEM, Center for Aesthetic and Music Studies. In 2005 Azevedo begun his doctorate at Universidade de Évora, with Amílcar Vasques Dias and Benoit Gibson.
NUM 1127
Title: Música Tradicional Açoreana, Por Compositores Contemporâneos Portugueses
Artists: Coro Ricercare, Paulo Lourenço – Conductor
Composers: Nuno Corte-Real, Vasco Pearce de Azevedo, Fernando Lapa, Carlos Marecos, Mário Nascimento, Sérgio Azevedo
Classical & Contemporary Music 