. 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

choir sketch for:

TENSO Young Composers Workshop 2014
w/ James Wood and Leo Samama.

16-18th May 2014 - TENSO Days @ Mechelen, Belgium

choir: Danish Radio VokalEnsemblet
conductor: James Wood

text:
“Let me forget – Let me forget,
I am weary of remembrance,
And my brow is ever wet,
With the tears of my remembrance,
With the tears and bloody sweat,
Let me forget.

If ye forget – If ye forget,
Then your children must remember,
And their brow be ever wet,
With the tears of their remembrance,
With the tears and bloody sweat,
If ye forget.”
(G. A. Studdert Kennedy)

If ye Forget

"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

PASSACAGLIA was a commission by Fundação Casa da Música.
(Young Composer in Residence 2015 Casa da Música)

premiere
20th October 2015

nota de programa:
Tenho uma fixação pela "Missa em Si menor" de Bach. Penso que todos os músicos a têm. Sempre que chega ao momento do "Crucifixus" a minha alma percebe que não estamos sozinhos. Aliás, creio que seja o único momento em que sou de todas as religiões. O único momento em que sou de alguma. Em que acredito em tudo. Em todos os livros e em todas as estórias.
O "Crucifixus" é uma passacaglia. Sempre quis fazer uma passacaglia. O baixo repete e repete e a música é sempre diferente.
Dito assim, parece uma metáfora da nossa democracia.
Mas não é. Na minha PASSACAGLIA o baixo é sempre forte. Não há que esconder.
A metáfora é essa.

PASSACAGLIA (REMIX Ensemble - Casa da Música)

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

Alcippe
(2017)

music. Nuno da Rocha [1986- ]
text. Leonor de Almeida Portugal ("Alcippe") [1750-1839]

Instituto Gregoriano de Lisboa children choir
dir. Filipa Palhares

recorder. Diana Cortez Pinto
violins. Lígia Soares, Marcos Lázaro
cello. Joana Almeida
harpsichord. Sérgio Silva
organ. André Ferreira

"Música em São Roque" Festival 2017
premiere. 19th November 2017, Igreja de S. Roque - Lisbon, Portugal

Alcippe

RECORDED CONCERTO
Concerto for Recorder and Baroque Orchestra
(2018)

composer. Nuno da Rocha


recorder. António Carrilho
conductor. Massimo Mazzeo

“Divino Sospiro” baroque orchestra

oboes. Luís Marques, Arianna Zambon 
bassoon. Giulia Breschi
horns. Paulo Guerreiro, Luís Sousa
lute. Pietro Prosser 
harpsichord. José Carlos Araújo
violins 1. Paolo Perrone, Malina Mantcheva, Elisa Bestetti
violins 2. Iskrena Yordanova, Valeria Caponnetto, Matilde Tosetti
violas. Roxanne Dykstra, Lucio Studer
cellos. Rebeca Ferri, Fernando S. Garcia 
doublebass. Marta Vicente


electronics. Jorge Ramos
performer. Pedro Finisterra

Festival Jovens Músicos 2018
27th September 2018, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

(this audio belongs to Antena 2 - Rádio Televisão Portuguesa)

RECORDED CONCERTO - Concerto for Recorder and Baroque Orchestra (FJM18 - Antena 2)

INFERNO
for Choir, Orchestra, and Solo Performer

Gulbenkian Choir & Orchestra
conductor. Nuno Coelho
soloist. Andre Hencleeday

music. Nuno da Rocha
text. Clément Bondu

commissioned by OSESP - Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo & Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
premiere. 24th January 2020

audio & video. Gulbenkian Música | Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

INFERNO - for Choir, Orchestra, and Solo Performer

Nuno da Rocha studied Composition with Vasco Mendonça, Carlos Marecos, Luís Tinoco, Carlos Caires and António Pinho Vargas.

During the summer of 2009 he participated in the ‘19th internationale sommerakademie09’ in Austria, where he worked with the composer Nigel Osborne, the maestro Michael Wendeberg and the widely recognized contemporary musical group ‘klangforum wien’.

In February 2010, he took part of the ‘16th young composers meeting’ in Apeldoorn (Netherlands) with the ‘de ereprijs’ orchestra. This meeting was directed by Louis Andriessen, Richard Ayres, Martijn Padding, Jan van de Putte, Micheal Smetanin and Helena Tulve.

By commission of Antena 2/RTP, he wrote ”Quatro Últimas Canções, quatro personagens a partir do romance de Vasco Graça Moura” as the mandatory piece for the contest ‘Prémio Jovens Músicos 2012′ in the category of Vocal performance.

He won the 3rd prize of the Antena2/RTP Composition Contest 2012 with the piece “O que será do rio without John Cage?” for baroque orchestra.

He was one of the selected composers to the TENSO Young Composers Workshop 2014 – Mechelen (Belgium). Afterward he was one of the three finalists of the TENSO Young Composers Award in Copenhagen (Denmark).

He was selected to the ENOA Workshop "Composing for Voice" with Magnus Lindberg and Barbara Hannigan where he premiere his work "I could not think of thee as piecèd rot" for Soprano and Orchestra.

In June-July 2015, he took part of the ENOA Workshop “Opera Creation - Reflection” with Fabio Vacchi (Aix-en-Provence, France). Later (September 15), he joined into another ENOA Workshop with Martin Crimp (Ghent, Belgium).

In October 2015, he premiere his last score for orchestra. "RESTART", commission by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, Portugal). This work was inserted in the opening concert of the new Gulbenkian season 15-16.

Nuno da Rocha was the Young Composer in Residence 2015 at Casa da Música (Porto, Portugal). As a result, he premiere three new works in the season.

In July 2016, he was one of the composers in residence “Song and Creation Residency” - Académie du Festival d’Aix-en-Provence (France).

In November 2016, his first album was released - “Mesmo que faça frio” - works for children choir.

Nuno da Rocha is one of the nominated composers for the TOTEM (Théâtre Opéra Texte et Écriture musicale) 2017-18, La Chartreuse - Villeneuve lez Avignon - Festival d’Avignon (France).

Nuno da Rocha - composer

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