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This piece was written for the Berklee Online Course Contemporary Techniques in Music Composition I and performed by students from Berklee
The recording was done by using a click track so some gestures are not in sync. The musicians weren't able to be in the same room due to the pandemic

Metamorphosis

METAMORPHOSIS | for Clarinet, Violin, Cello and Piano

This piece was composed for the Bergamot Quartet as a part of MATA Jr 2021, organized by the MATA Festival. 
During the process of writing this work I had the chance to be mentored by composer Ali Can Puskulcu.
The piece is inspired by Dante Aligheri's book Inferno and tries to depict Dante's horrific descriptions of hell.

This recording is from the world premiere of the piece, on the 17th of October 2021, in Scholes Street Studios, New York City.

Inferno

INFERNO | for String Quartet - Performed By Bergamot Quartet

Performed by Carlos Silva (Ensemble DME) during KlexosLab22 in Spain

BREATH | for Solo Clarinet - II (excerpt)

BREATH | for Solo Clarinet - III (excerpt)

Piece written for and performed by the students from Ourearte, conducted by João Quinteiro.

CHUVA OBLÍQUA | for Ensemble

“Just over the horizon a great machine of death is roaring and rearing.
We can hear it always. Earthquake, starvation, the ever-renewing sump of corpse-flesh.
But in this valley the snow falls silently all day, and out our window
We see the curtain of it shifting and folding, hiding us away in our little house,

(…)

Of cruelty, where heads fell like wilted flowers and snow fell for many months
Across the pass and drifted deep in the vale.

(…)

Covered with sores, unable to speak. But of course we see the child every day,
We hold out our hands, we touch him shyly, we make offerings to his implacability.
No, the index cannot close. And how shall we survive? We don’t and cannot and will never

(…)

“

The Curtain, Hayden Carruth

Recorded at the Salon Brahms by the famous Irvine Arditti, during the Vienna Summer Music Festival 2022.

PROLEGOMENA | for Tuba and Electronics

João Moreira