In February 2013 I made several concerts with Ensemble da Sé de Angra in Terceira Island (Azores). One of these concerts was in the Church of Santa Cruz of Praia da Vitória, where we made the recording presented in this …
This two-verse polyphonic setting of the hymn Stabat Mater dolorosa is attributed to Portuguese composer Estêvão de Brito (c.1575-1641) and is now preserved in a 18th-century copied choirbook in Málaga Cathedral, where Brito was chapel master in the beginning of …
In 2016 was the 450th anniversary of Portuguese composer frei Manuel Cardoso’s birth. He was baptized on December 11, 1566, in the Church of Fronteira, a small village near the Spanish border. He wrote several Lamentations settings for the Triduum …
I have recently published a brief text (in Portuguese) on the Portugueze online magazine InComunidade titled “Algumas notas sobre o motete Memento homo de Diogo Dias Melgaz”, in the issue 78 of last March.
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 …
Photos from my presentation during the III Meeting of History, Archaeology and Heritage organized by the Students Association at the University of Évora, last 29 April. I talked about the Musicology studies about Évora and the potentialities for future interdisciplinary …
Last 18 May I gave a tour on the Historical Soundscapes theme through some of the city’s historical centre streets with focus on the religious institutions during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Tomorrow (18 May) I will be given a brief guided tour through Évora historical centre in the commemorations of the European Night for Researchers, the Évora activities titled “Talks about Art, Architecture and Heritage”, organized by Évora National Museum and …
I was invited to participate in the III JORNADAS – História Arqueologia e Património Cultural, organised by the Núcleo de Estudantes de História e Arqueologia da Universidade de Évora, this year dedicated to the historical reflections about Évora in a …
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Photo from my paper presentation at the IV Simpósio Internacional Jóvenes Investigadores del Barroco Iberoamericano, in Cáceres last April 10th, where I gave some perspectives of transition in the works of Évora Cathedral composers Diogo Dias Melgaz (1638-1700) and Pedro …