Contemporary Instrumental Music

Synthesis [cycle]

. conducted by Massimo Mazzeo
. recorded at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, September 28th 2012
. Festival Jovens Músicos 2012
. awarded at SPA/Antena 2 Composition Contest 2012

o que será do rio without John Cage? - Divino Sospiro baroque orchestra

"I could not think of thee as piecèd rot"
for soprano and orchestra

conductor - Magnus Lindberg
soprano - Inês Simões
Gulbenkian Orchestra

composer - Nuno da Rocha
words by - James Joyce & Fernando Pessoa

Sleep now, O sleep now, 
   O you unquiet heart! 
A voice crying 'Sleep now' 
   Is heard in my heart. 

The voice of the winter 
   Is heard at the door. 
O sleep, for the winter 
   Is crying 'Sleep no more.' 

My kiss will give peace now 
   And quiet to your heart - 
Sleep on in peace now, 
   O you unquiet heart! 
(James Joyce)

I could not think of thee as piecèd rot,
Yet such thou wert, for thou hadst been long dead;
Yet thou liv'dst entire in my seeing thought
And what thou wert in me had never fled.
Nay, I had fixed the moments of thy beauty -
Thy ebbing smile, thy kiss's readiness,
And memory had taught my heart the duty
To know thee ever at that deathlessness.
But when I came where thou wert laid, and saw
The natural flowers ignoring thee sans blame,
And the encroaching grass, with casual flaw,
Framing the stone to age where was thy name,
    I knew not how to feel, nor what to be
    Towards thy fate's material secrecy.
(Fernando Pessoa)

premiere at ENOA's Concert - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 12th September 2014.

recorded by Antena 2.
(photo by Márcia Lessa)

I could not think of thee as piecèd rot - for soprano and orchestra

"Philippina"
double concerto for Trumpet, Accordion and Wind Orchestra

composer: Nuno da Rocha

trumpet: Marco Silva
accordion: João Barradas

conductor: Alberto Roque
orchestra: ESML Wind Orchestra

premiere
7th june 2014, Vianna da Motta auditorium, Lisbon - Portugal

audio
recorded by: Alexandre Gonçalves, André Alves, Martim Souto
edited by: André Barroso

"Philippina" - double concerto for Trumpet, Accordion and Wind Orchestra

RESTART for orchestra
(commission by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian)
Nuno da Rocha

Gulbenkian Orchestra 
dir. Joana Carneiro

recorded by RTP / Antena 2 (9th October 2015)
(premiered on 8th October 2015 at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian)

audio edition: João Dionísio

program note:

RESTART é uma metáfora sobre a anarquia que percorre a minha cabeça. RESTART representa
a minha liberdade, de fazer, de pensar e de partilhar com os outros. De viver com os outros. É uma pergunta. E talvez não responda a nada. Eu creio que talvez seja uma afirmação política. O pensamento é anarca. Esta partitura é anarca. Embora uma partitura nunca seja anarca. Mas esta é quase anarca. RESTART é um pequeno coral de Bach numa tela do Francis Bacon. RESTART é uma tela do Francis Bacon que ele nunca chegou a pintar. São os músicos da Orquestra Gulbenkian que fazem a RESTART.
É deles. O primeiro acorde é deles e o último é de todos nós. RESTART foi escrita para o reiniciar deste palco nesta temporada. Nesta casa. RESTART é uma agressão à palavra, à linguagem verbal. Esta linguagem inventou a religião. Separou o Homem. A música só-música não.
É anarca como eu.

RESTART for orchestra

para comprar o disco / to buy this album:
nunodarocha.bandcamp.com
www.mpmp.pt

"Mesmo que faça frio"
Ciclo de Canções para 8 vozes femininas e Piano Preparado / Songs for 8 female voices and Prepared Piano

album "Mesmo que faça frio"
Nuno da Rocha's works for Children's Choir

Instituto Gregoriano de Lisboa Children's Choir
conductor. Filipa Palhares

piano. Pedro Ferro
voices. Carolina de Andrade, Madalena d'Oliveira Martins, Sara Megre, Mariana Rodrigues, Raquel Rebordão, Ana Varela, Rita Miranda, Beatriz Ferreira

text by J. Tolentino Mendonça

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production. Tangente
audio. Cláudio Carvalho | Estúdio SantaRosa | Underdog Music Solutions 
cover & layouts. Guilherme Campos Gil

recorded at Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (June 2013, October 2016)

supported by 'Antena 2' and 'mpmp'

Mesmo que faça frio

Jaime Reis
Calmodulin Synthesis (2002), for 5 percussionists

Ensemble 20-21

Marco Fernandes
Miguel Filipe
Pedro Martins
Fábio Dias
Luís Cascão

Maestro Pedro Pinto Figueiredo

The score is available for free at www.mic.pt

This recording took place at Algarve University (Portugal), on November 18th, 2011.

recorded by MPAGDP

Original in
https://vimeo.com/33237840

Directing: Marina Rodrigues and Sofia Afonso 
Sound: Mariana Rodrigues and Sofia Afonso assisted by Jaime Reis

Canon 5d 
Canon 7d 
Beyer Dynamic 
2 RODE NT5


http://www.jaimereis.pt

Jaime Reis: Calmodulin Synthesis (2002) by Ensemble 20-21

Portugal. Degree in Composition - Uni. de Aveiro with João Pedro Oliveira (3 prize scholarships as best student of the uni.). PhD candidate (Musicology) - FSCH-UNL. Composition seminars with Emmanuel Nunes (also PhD co-advisor) and Stockhausen.
He received prizes in Portugal (Jorge Peixinho Competition, 3 Workshop Gulbenkian for Portuguese Composers, etc), his music was selected to be presented at the ICMC 2005 (Barcelona), ICMC 2014 (Atenas), IRCAM Manifeste Academie 2013, 1º prize in competition arte! ⋈ clima 2014 for category "Pobreza Cero. Emisiones Cero" with the work “Omniscience is a Collective”, etc. He took part of several scientific revision committees, namely, ICMC 2012. Researcher at Institute of Ethnomusicology. Member of ASEFUAN. Artistic director of festival Dias de Música Electroacústica (since 2003). Director of Conservatório de Música de Seia (since 2007). Professor at Piaget Institute and Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
Had commissions from UFT/INATEL, Grupo de Música Contemporânea de Lisboa, Festival Primavera, APEM (Portugal), Logos Foundation (Belgium), F.L.S.I. (Paris), etc.
His music has been presented in Europe. He travelled for 5 years to work in Asia (Beijing, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Philippines, etc) and 4 years to Brazil (UNICAMP, UFBA, UFMG, UDESC, UFRJ, etc).