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31
2010
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Yeree Suh sings "Trois Poèmes de L'Orient" |
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Saturday, 31 July 2010 |
Closing the 36th edition of the Estoril Festival, the OrchestrUtopica, conducted by Tapio Tuomela, will give a recital at the Cascais Cultural Centre, on the 31st July | 9.30 p.m.  tuomela.jpg
The ensemble will be joined by the soprano Yeree Suh that will sing the Portuguese première of Tuomela's Gloria, and will also sing Luís Tinoco's Trois Poèmes de L'Orient based on poems written by Camilo Pesanha ( Clepsydra), translated to French by Christine Paris-Montech.
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Jul
23
2010
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Joana Gama performs "Mind the Gap" |
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Friday, 23 July 2010 |
 joana_gama.jpg On the 23rd July | 9.30 p.m, at the Museu do Oriente in Lisbon, Joana Gama will give the World Première of Mind the Gap (piano transcription).
Joana Gama will again perform the same piece on the following day, in Braga, at the Universidade do Minho - Nogueira da Silva Museum, at 6 p.m.
Click here and here to know more.
Mind the Gap was originally written for five octaves' marimba and was premièred by Pedro Carneiro in March 2000, at the Purcell Room - South Bank Centre, in London.
The piece is divided in four movements, all inspired by signs found in the London Underground: Keep Left; Next Train Approaching; Currently Out of Order; and Keep Right.
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Jul
03
2010
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"O Silêncio e as Pedras" in Lisbon and London |
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Saturday, 03 July 2010 |
 sondarte_2.jpg On the 3rd of July | 11.30 p.m., the Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble under the baton of Jean-Sébastien Béreau will give a recital at the "Winter Garden" of the S. Luiz Theatre, in Lisbon.
The program includes O Silêncio e as Pedras - for quintet and electronics, that Luís Tinoco composed in 2008 following a commission by the Miso Music Portugal.
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The Sond'Ar-te will repeat this same program three days later, at the City of London Festival - Mercers Hall | 6th July - 7.30 p.m.
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Jun
21
2010
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"Chant for East Timor" in London |
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Monday, 21 June 2010 |
 colf2010.jpg On the first day of the City of London Festival, the Portuguese Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Pedro Carneiro, will perform Chant for East Timor - for chamber string orchestra.
The program of this concert that will take place at the Guildhall Old Library, at 7.30 p.m., also includes works by Beethoven, Braga-Santos and Chopin.
Click here to know more; and here to download the Festival's brochure.
 guildhall.jpg was premièred in 1999 by the Academy Soloists lead by Clio Gould, at the Festival Dreams and Reflections (Royal Academy of Music) and the Spitasfields Festival.
(…) Subtlety and drama are also present in Chant for East Timor by Luís Tinoco, with multifaceted writing, in service of an enormous aesthetic tension, inspired by the tough reality of the Indonesian annexation of Timor.
Manuel Pedro Ferreira, O Público, Portugal
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May
29
2010
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"Before Spring" - world première |
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Saturday, 29 May 2010 |
On the 29th of May | 9.00 p.m. at the CCB in Lisbon, the OrchestrUtopica conducted by Cesário Costa will give the first performance of Before
Spring - a tribute to the Rite, an opening piece scored for 16 players.  before_spring.jpg
Before Spring will be followed by a new creation of Stravinsky's The
Rite of Spring, choreographed by Olga Roriz and performed by the Lisbon
Metropolitan Orchestra.
This same program will repeat at the same venue on the 30th of May (5.00 p.m.); 2nd of June (9.00 p.m.) and 3rd of June (5.00 p.m.)
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