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In 12 October 2017 I participated in a Symposium that took place at the Convent of Christ, in Tomar, a former Templar house later transferred to the Portuguese Order of Christ, where I presented a paper on 17th-century Franciscan plainchant in the Azorean island of Flores.Read more

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The human voice is probably one of our most valuable treasures, to which so much wonderful music has been composed since the beginnings of our civilisation.  April 16th was chosen since 1999 to  celebrate worldwide the phenomenon of voice. Its aim is to demonstrate the enormous importance of the voiceRead more

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Together with Francisco Guerrero’s, Tomás Luis de Victoria’s double-choir setting of the Ave Maria (the only one actually by him) is probably one the “Ave Maria” settings from Iberian composers which I like more (although D. Pedro de Cristo’s setting is also sumptuous).Read more

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In 2014 I had the opportunity of participating in an interdisciplinary research project, ORFEUS – The tridentine reformation and the music in the silence of the cloister: the monastery of S. Bento de Cástris, that involved musicology, architecture, art history, acoustic engineering and codicology.Read more