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Tableaux, a new piece for eight players after paintings by René Magritte, was commissioned by the Grupo de Música Contemporânea de Lisboa. The ensemble, conducted by Vasco Pearce de Azevedo, will premiere the new work on 12th December 2018 at Cardiff University Concert Hall |
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A recording of Memória performed by Wesley Ferreira and Gail Novak will be released on Centaur Records in Spring 2019. The disc will feature several works by Portuguese composers commissioned by Wesley Ferreira over the last decade |
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A new chamber music CD was recorded in July featuring works composed between 2007 and 2018: Elegia, Thanatos, Escape, Espera, Nachtmusik, Returning, Memória and Sonata. With performances by Sarah Thurlow, Carla Santos, Saul Picado, Nancy Johnson and Miguel Fernandes, the disc will be released and distributed by Naxos in 2019 |
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Sonata for violin and piano was premiered by the Dryads Duo at the Cardiff University Concert Hall on 24th April 2018. This new work was commissioned by the Dryads Duo |
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Thanatos for clarinet and string trio was performed by Endymion at the Cardiff University Concert Hall on 20th February 2018 |
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Como se Faz Cor-de-Laranja [How to Make the Colour Orange], for speaker and 17 musicians was performed twice on 10th February 2018 at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos. The piece, based on a short story by António Torrado, was commissioned in 2007 by the Academia de Música de Viana do Castelo and has received several performances since. This new production with Sílvia Correia (speaker) and the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra conducted by José Eduardo Gomes was the Lisbon première
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Eunice Almeida (actress and stage director) and the Orquestra de Jovens de Santa Maria da Feira conducted by Paulo Martins performed Como se Faz Cor-de-Laranja on 21st April 2017 at the Auditório de Louredo |
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Espera was performed by Simon Rowland-Jones (viola) and Tim Horton (piano) at the Cardiff University Concert Hall on 7th March 2017 |
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Evening was premièred by Ziazan Horrocks-Hopayian (soprano) and Anna Bastow (viola) at LSO St Luke's on 11th February 2017. This new work is a setting of a poem by Khadambi Asalache and it was commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra |
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The Brazilian premiere of À Memória de Anarda was given by the Coral Paulistano Mário de Andrade conducted by Luiz Marchetti at the Praça das Artes in São Paulo, on 11th June 2016 |
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Pinguins was premièred by the Companhia Nacional de Bailado in June and July 2016, at the Teatro Camões in Lisbon and the Teatro Rivoli in Porto. This is a movement from Carnaval, a ballet directed by Victor Hugo Pontes based on Camille Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals. The Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa was conducted by Cesário Costa |
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A recording of Poema was released in June 2016 on Naxos. The CD features Portuguese music for cello and orchestra and is performed by cellist Bruno Borralhinho and the Gulbenkian Orchestra, conducted by Pedro Neves |
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Como se Faz Cor-de-Laranja was performed on 4th June 2016 by Sílvia Correia (actress and stage director) and an ensemble of teachers from the Academia de Música de Castelo de Paiva conducted by José Eduardo Gomes. The concert was held at the Auditório Municipal de Castelo de Paiva |
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ELA, a new work commissioned by the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos (Portuguese National Opera), was premièred by the Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa conducted by Joana Carneiro on 14th February 2016 at the Centro Cultural de Belém
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Andrew Sparling (cl) and Richard Casey (pno) from the ensemble Lontano performed Nachtmusik at the Cardiff University Concert Hall on 10th November 2015
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Pedro Faria Gomes was appointed as a Lecturer in Composition at Cardiff University in September 2015 |
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Première of Canções do Quadrante by the Orchestra and Choirs of the Academia de Música de Santa Cecília, conducted by Joana Carneiro, on 9th May 2015 at the Centro Cultural de Belém. This new work was commissioned by the Academia de Música de Santa Cecília for their fiftieth anniversary |
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Pedro Silva premièred Toys and Games, for solo bassoon, at the Conservatório de Música de Coimbra on 18th December 2014 |
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How Beastly the Bourgeois Is, based on a poem by D. H. Lawrence, was premièred by soprano Inês Simões and the Gulbenkian Orchestra, conducted by Magnus Lindberg, on 12th September 2014. This was a project of the European Network of Opera Academies |
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The Grupo de Música Contemporânea de Lisboa, conducted by Fernando Marinho, gave the first public performance of Drive. Concerts in Lisbon, Porto and Amarante on 25th, 26th and 27th September 2014 |
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Returning represented Portugal at UNESCO's 2014 International Rostrum of Composers, last May in Helsinki |
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A Thurston Dart Research Grant from the Royal Musical Association has been awarded to Pedro Faria Gomes to support a composition project at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon |
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À Memória de Anarda was broadcast on November 24th on Swiss Radio RTS Espace 2's choral music programme Chant Libre. On November 26th Como se Faz Cor-de-Laranja was broadcast on Portuguese Radio RTP Antena 2's Concerto Aberto |
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À Memória de Anarda for mixed choir was performed in a series of concerts by the Coro Regina Coeli de Lisboa conducted by Pedro Miguel, at the Parque de Monserrate on June 22nd, the Teatro Ibérico on June 28th and the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga on July 27th |
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Tereza's Dreams for 8 players was premièred by members of the London Chamber Orchestra conducted by Fergus Macleod on 17th May 2013 at the Cadogan Hall in London |
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A live recording of the orchestral work Contraluz was broadcast on 2nd April on London radio art station Resonance FM, in a programme dedicated to the music of composers in the London Symphony Orchestra Soundhub scheme |
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Contraluz was performed by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Maxime Tortelier at the South West Composers Day on 2nd March 2013. This whole-day event took place at the Lighthouse in Poole and was led by composer and conductor James MacMillan |
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Pedro Faria Gomes is an Associate Composer of the London Symphony Orchestra Soundhub since September 2012 |
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Contraluz for symphony orchestra was premièred by the Fundação Orquestra Estúdio conducted by Miguel Graça Moura on 14th September. This new work has been commissioned by Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Culture |
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A live recording of Nachtmusik performed by Richard Stoltzman (clarinet) and Mary Wu (piano) in May 2011 in Hong Kong is now available on Naxos Music Library and Naxos Video Library, and for download on ClassicsOnline |
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Elegia for solo cello was released on CD in September by Fundação GDA, performed by Gonçalo Guedes Silva. Elegia was commissioned in 2007 by the Rádio e Televisão de Portugal / Antena 2 as a compulsory piece for the Prémio Jovens Músicos, which celebrated in 2012 its 25th anniversary |
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Memória for clarinet and piano has been commissioned by clarinettist Wesley Ferreira for a CD project to be recorded in November 2012 |
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The music of Pedro Faria Gomes was featured on radio Antena 2's contemporary music programme Geografia dos Sons, on 3rd June 2012. Recordings of Espera, Returning and Elegia were broadcast, with an introduction by composer Luís Tinoco
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A new version of Dual was premièred by Sophie Stanley (viola), Raman Ramakrishnan (cello) and Ji Hye Jung (marimba) at the Hong Kong City Hall Theatre as part of The Intimacy of Creativity 2012, on 6th May 2012 |
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Contours for ensemble was premièred at the Philharmonia Orchestra's Bartók Festival, Infernal Dance, in London, 15th November 2011 |
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The Grupo de Música Contemporânea de Lisboa performed Thanatos at the Royal College of Music (London) on 11th November 2011 |
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Pianist and composer Ming-Hsiu Yen gave the asian première of Variações-Fantasia for solo piano at the Tsang Shiu Tim Art Hall in Hong Kong on 20th October |
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Elegia for solo cello was performed on 7th October by Prémio Jovens Músicos prize-winner Gonçalo Guedes Silva, at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. The concert was broadcast live on Portuguese radio Antena 2 |
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In 2011-12 Pedro Faria Gomes was Composer-in-Residence and Professor of Composition and Music Theory at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
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In April and May 2011, performances of Nachtmusik with Richard Stoltzman (clarinet) and Mary Wu (piano), as a guest composer at the Intimacy of Creativity Festival in Hong Kong |
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