À Procura de um Pinheiro

Peça Musical em Um Acto

Instrumentation: Children's Choir, Child Soloists and 5 Instruments

Flute(=Picc), Clarinet(=BCl), Percussion (Glock, Xylo, Shkr, SusCym, ClCym, SlghBells, Tri, Tamb), Double Bass and Piano

Characters (in concert version, sung from the choir):

Pinheiro (Child)

Estrela (Child)

Luz (Child)

Bola de Cristal (Child)

Fita (Child)

Duration: 30 Minutes  |  15 Scenes

First Performance: 2003 [CD recording]

Estúdios Namouche, Lisbon, Portugal

Children's Choir of the Academia de Música de Santa Cecília

Catarina Mendes (Pinheiro), Joana Vidal (Estrela), Nuno Santos (Luz), Catarina Barreiros (Bola de Cristal) and Joana Lino (Fita)

Fernando Marinho, Nuno Inácio and Rui Maia (flute)

Nuno Gonçalves and Pedro Nuno (clarinet)

Joana Moitas, Isabel Monteiro, Paula Adão and Paula Nunes (percussion)

Abel Carvalho and Jorge Carreiro (double bass)

Joana Alves (piano)

Ana Paula Rodrigues and António Gonçalves (cond.)

Première: 12th December 2003

Auditório do Colégio São João de Brito, Lisbon, Portugal

Children's Choir of the Academia de Música de Santa Cecília

Catarina Mendes (Pinheiro), Joana Vidal (Estrela), Nuno Santos (Luz), Catarina Barreiros (Bola de Cristal) and Joana Lino (Fita)

Fernando Marinho (flute)

Nuno Gonçalves (clarinet)

Joana Moitas, Isabel Monteiro and Paula Nunes (percussion)

Abel Carvalho (double bass)

Joana Alves (piano)

Ana Paula Rodrigues and António Gonçalves (cond.)

Text: José Carlos Godinho (Portuguese)

From the original version by José Carlos Godinho  |  Arrangement and Orchestration by Pedro Faria Gomes

Commissioned by the Academia de Música de Santa Cecília