It has now entered in the final stage of pre-printing of the volume comprising a selection of papers presented in the Art & Heritage meetings of 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 I co-organized with the colleagues of the ACROARTE conservation & restoration atelier.Read more
This text refers to the organ located in the church of Nossa Senhora da Guia, in the Franciscan convent of São Francisco, Angra do Heroísmo (Terceira Island, Azores), nowadays housing the Museum of Angra do Heroísmo.Read more
I have published recently an article (in Portuguese) in the Brazilian journal Museologia & Interdisciplinaridade focusing on the organs of Terceira Island, in the Azores archipelago.Read more
In late July and early August of 2012 I helped organizing the Festival Iberian Music 16th & 17th Centuries in Angra do Heroísmo (Terceira Island, Azores), a five-concert marathon during a week in the churches of the city that have organs. It combined the performance of Iberian organ music withRead more
Photos from my participation in the Encontro “Arte & Património” 2019, that took place in S. Jorge Island. For the first day I was moderator of the two conference pannels, and introduced organist José Carlos Araújo in the final organ recital closing the event.Read more
Next weekend (11-12 May) I will be at S. Jorge Island, in the Azores archipelago, for the fourth edition of the Meeting “Art & Heritage”, organised by the ACROARTE conservation and restoration atelier, in collaboration with the ecclesiastical Ouvidoria of the island.Read more
I have recently publish an article on the Brazilian journal Revista Maracanan (written in Portuguese) about the context of historical soundscape surrounding the hermitage of Nossa Senhora dos Remédios in Angra do Heroísmo, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.Read more
This year begun with the publication of a new article on the seventeenth century soundscape of Angra do Heroísmo, a beautiful city in Terceira Island, Azores.Read more
I have been interested in studying the presence of music in my home village’s church for years. Since my specialty is the study of plainchant and polyphony in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries and now it is gradually focusing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it was an important stepRead more
Last October 18th, with activities until the 22nd, was the National Day for the cultural heritage of the church (in Portuguese, Dia Nacional dos Bens Culturais da Igreja), a series of events promoted by the dioceses, parishes, and museums to present the vast artistic heritage of religious nature extant inRead more