À Memória de Anarda was performed in Portugal and the UK recently: by the ESML Chamber Choir conducted by Alberto Araújo on 18th January, and by the Caritas Consort conducted by Lindsay Gray on 25th February. At the same concert, Caritas also premiered Remember, a new choral work based on a sonnet by Christina Rossetti.
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On 22nd January Pedro Faria Gomes was the guest speaker at King's College London's Colloquium Series, run by its Department of Music. The session was titled Scenes from Childhood: Quotation and Paraphrase in Suite J and Sonatina
The Ways of Time – a song cycle based on poetry by W. H. Davies – was performed in Brazil and Portugal in 2024: by students of the University of Campinas on 26th April, and by Gonçalo Martins and Francisco Sassetti at Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa on 29th May. It was performed again on 28th January 2025, at Cardiff University, by pianist Wendy Hiscocks and baritone Jeremy Huw Williams, who commissioned the piece in 2021
The Christmas play À Procura de um Pinheiro, with music by José Carlos Godinho arranged by Pedro Faria Gomes, was performed in December 2024 by the Conservatório Regional do Baixo Alentejo in Beja and Castro Verde, and by the Escola de Música Nossa Senhora do Cabo in Lisbon. A further performance by the CRBA took place in Moura on 9th January 2025
A movement from Pedro Faria Gomes' Sonata for violin and piano has been selected for the Naxos compilation album Portuguese Classical Masterpieces, alongside works by some of Portugal's most prominent composers from the 16th century to the present day
Following the world premiere recording earlier in 2024, Kenneth Hamilton gave the first public performances of Sonatina on 29th October at Cardiff University and on 1st November in the Elgar Concert Hall (Birmingham) as part of the Barber Concerts
Elegia was performed by cellist Fernando Costa in two Ensemble Darcos concerts in Lisbon and Torres Vedras in October 2024
Pedro Faria Gomes gave several talks about his work in 2024, as a guest lecturer at universities internationally: Bristol (UK) and Illinois (USA) in February, São Paulo and UNICAMP (Brazil) in April, and Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (Portugal) in May
Nachtmusik was performed by Rocío Balaños (clarinet) and Neil Georgeson (piano) in a Riot Ensemble concert at Cardiff University on 16th April 2024
À Memória de Anarda was performed by Coro de Câmara Lisboa Cantat, conducted by Jorge Carvalho Alves, at St George's Church in Lisbon on 25th March 2024
Scenes from Childhood, a new portrait CD with piano works by Pedro Faria Gomes performed by Kenneth Hamilton, was released by Prima Facie in January 2024 (available to buy or stream here). The album reached No. 17 in the UK Specialist Classical Chart and No. 13 in the Presto Music Classical Top 25 chart. A selection of extracts is available here
The Netherlands Chamber Choir, conducted by Peter Dijkstra, released in 2023 an online recording of À Memória de Anarda, as part of their Personal Archive Sessions. The video is available to watch on YouTube here
Following a performance in Castelo Branco in June, the Fragmentos Ensemble will perform Partita on 8th November 2023 at Teatro Municipal da Guarda, as part of Festival Síntese
Memória was performed by Andrew Dickinson (clarinet) and Julie Nishimura (piano) at the Roselle Center for the Arts, University of Delaware, on 27th October 2023
Pianist Saul Picado performed Escape and Variações-Fantasia in a recital at the Centro de Cultura Contemporânea de Castelo Branco on 31st May 2023
The Grupo de Música Contemporânea de Lisboa, conducted by Pedro Ferreira, performed Tableaux at Sociedade Filarmónica Palmelense (13th May 2023) and Casa do Barro in São Pedro do Corval (14th May 2023)
O Violino Cigano was performed by the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa, Janete Santos (narrator) and Bruno Borralhinho (conductor) on 11th March 2023, in the Museu Nacional dos Coches (Picadeiro Real)
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