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
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
An edition of three motets for Advent by Francisco José Perdigão, a late-eighteenth-century chapel master of Évora Cathedral, that I prepared for the Sacra XVIII series of the Editions MPMP (it will be published in early-2019 and will be available HERE) will be performed by Grupo Vocal Olisipo, a Lisbon-basedRead more
One of the first editions I prepared for the Polyphonia series of the Editions MPMP in late 2012 was the collection of responsories for Christmas matins by composer Estêvão Lopes Morago which make the number 6 of this series.Read more
In 2014 I prepared an edition of Matheo d’Aranda’s surviving polyphonic works for the number 11 of the Polyphonia series of musical editions published by the Edições MPMP of Movimento Patrimonial pela Música Portuguesa.Read more
This is the second number of the Polyphonia series, edited by Movimento Patrimonial pela Música Portuguesa, comprising three more motets by Portuguese composer Diogo Dias Melgaz (1638-1700). Melgaz was mestre de capela at Évora Cathedral in the last decades of the 17th century. This edition comprises the motets Memento homo,Read more