NowState at Música Viva 2020

The piece NowState (2018), for piano, will be performed on the 14th of November 2020, by pianist Paulo Pacheco, during the Música Viva 2020 festival in Lisbon, Portugal. The venue is O’culto da Ajuda, home of MISO MUSIC.

Lisbon Ensemble XX / XXI – Pedro Pinto Figueiredo, artistic director

Gonçalo Gato – NowState* (pn)
Emmanuel Nunes – Ludi Concertato (flbx)
Colors Seen in Silence II – Hugo Vasco Reis (pn e fl)
Ametista e Obsidiana – Jaime Reis (pn, fl, cl)
Canto da Sibila – Jorge Peixinho (pn, cl, perc)
João Quinteiro – Euridice, sete da manhã ** (dancer and perc)

Marina Camponês – flute
Filipe Dias – clarinet
Paulo Pacheco – piano
Marco Fernandes – percussion
Teresa Doblinger – dance

Elementos at Ensemble-Akademie Freiburg

The piece Elementos (2018), for piano trio, is set to be performed by ensemble recherche in Freiburg on the 7th of September 2020 during the Ensemble-Akademie. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the organisation hopes the Akademie can still take place:

Even though the present situation creates planning uncertainty, we currently assume that we will be able to hold the Academy Week in September.

http://ensemble-akademie.de/en/aktueller-hinweis-zu-covid-19/

Program Opening Concert

Monday, 7.9.2020, 8 pm
Members of the Freiburger BarockConsort and the ensemble recherche
Ensemblehaus

Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Battalia
Francesco Durante: Concerto in A-Dur, «La Pazzia» (der Wahnsinn)
Georg Philipp Telemann: 6 Kanonische Sonaten, Nr. 2 D-Dur (TWV 40:119)
Georg Philipp Telemann: 6 Kanonische Sonaten, Nr. 6 in g-Moll (TWV 40:123)
Roman Haubenstock-Ramati: multiple 5
Gonçalo Gato: Elementos
Vito Žuraj: Ruée

ensemble recherche

Exhibition at Vera Cortês

Artist André Guedes invited me for a collaboration while developing his Formas Antigas, Novas Circunstâncias (2019) installation, which features a sound piece developed with singers Marco Alves dos Santos (tenor) and Nuno Dias (bass). I composed the score and later recorded the singers at Goela. The piece inaugurated on the 21st of November 2019 at Galeria Vera Cortês.

“A tangential approximation to the operatic recitative format, the libretto of the piece introduces a dialogue between two masculine voices: one of them is, possibly, that of an urban design historian detailing the urban and social transformations undergone by Italian cities during the second half of the 20th century, and the second possibly that of an archaeologist alluding to the historical processes that lead to the rise and downfall of the city of Troy.” (João Mourão and Luís Silva, exhibition leaflet)

André Guedes Formas Antigas, Novas Circunstâncias