The ninth edition of the Cistercian Residency S. Bento de Cástris will take place next 17-18 September in the Portuguese city of Évora. This year’s edition is themed “Nature, Landscape, and Locus: the Monastic Houses, the interpretation and uses of the natural resources”. The programme for the 17th includes aRead more
The project PASEV – Patrimonialization of Évora’s Soundscape (1540-1910) is organizing a concert tomorrow 29 May, 18h00 in the magnificent Church of São Francisco, Évora. Capella Patriarchal, directed by the organist João Vaz, will present a setting titled Noa para a festa da Ascensão which comprises psalms, hymns and other worksRead more
An article was published a while ago (most precisely, on the second semester of 2019) on the Portuguese journal Herança – Revista de História, Património e Cultura on musical heritage in early seventeenth-century Angra Cathedral, Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira Island, Azores.Read more
Today is the presentation of the CD Herança, by the Grupo Vocal Olisipo (dir. Armando Possante), in which I was involved in the music edition, booklet text and repertoire consulting. This was a very good experience and it allowed the revival of quite a number of musical works by composersRead more
Several activities will take place in the afternoon of next 27 November, from 15h00-22h00, organized by several research centres of the University of Évora for the 2020 edition of the European Researcher’s Night. Following the welcoming session to the activities organized in Évora, one can listen to several bell ringingRead more
The Colloquium “Sonoridades Eborenses” will take place next 25/26 November on the ZOOM platform (check links for accessing the sessions). This colloquium is part of the ongoing research project PASEV – Patrimonialization of Évora’s Soundscapes (1540-1910) at the University of Évora branch of CESEM.Read more
I have been collaborating with Portuguese ensemble Grupo Vocal Olisipo and its director Armando Possante in the edition of the group’s latest CD, titled Herança (Heritage), which I think will be launched by the end of the year. I have contributed with several music editions of works by Manuel MendesRead more
I have published the chapter “Continuidade do repertório polifónico na Catedral de Évora no século XVIII” in the book Escola de Música da Sé de Évora – Conferências, edited by Eborae Mvsica and published in late 2019, as the gathering of several conferences given at the International Workshop “Évora CathedralRead more
VIII Residência Cisterciense S. Bento de Cástris Online (ZOOM platform) – 18 September 2020 – 15:00-18:00 This year’s edition of the Cistercian Residency for the Monastery of São Bento de Cástris (on the outskirts of Évora) will take place in the ZOOM platform due to the constraints of the COVID-19.Read more
In April 2017 I participated in a Meeting for young researchers that took place at the University of the Azores campus of Ponta Delgada (S. Miguel Island). The event was mostly centred in undergraduate students but I thought it would be a good idea to send a proposal for contributingRead more