¡¿Lamento?! // ¡¿Lament?! (2016)
for Flute, Oboe and String Quintet

Composition: Henry Purcell & Pedro F. Finisterra

ClusterLAB M Ensemble
Conduction: Carlos Marecos
Flute: Rita Cordeiro
Oboe: Isabela Martins
Violin I: Beatriz Silva
Violin II: Jaime Jacob
Viola: Milan Radočaj
Cello: Carlos Soares
Double Bass: Mateus Behringer

Brand New Portuguese Music
Composers and Performers from Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa
Cine-Teatro Municipal de Castro Verde
Castro Verde, Portugal
17th of February, 2017

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Pedro F. Finisterra
Born in 1994, Lisbon, studied Guitar (with Acácio Resende and Sérgio Marques), Piano (with Miguel Diniz and Liudmila Litvinova), Singing (with Manuel Brás da Costa), Contrabass (with Rui Almeida) and Composition (with Jorge Pereira) at Conservatório de Música de Santarém, having concluded his secondary studies on Musical Training in 2013.
Did a Major in Composition at Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (2013-16), studying under Carlos Marecos, Carlos Caires and Luís Tinoco. He also had classes with António Pinho Vargas, Sérgio Azevedo, João Madureira and José Luís Ferreira.
Studied Jazz at Hot Club de Portugal (Electric Bass and Combo, with Massimo Cavalli and Gonçalo Marques, respectively) and was a member of Big Band Júnior (2010-14), conducted by Claus Nymark.
He also participated on several workshops in Portugal and abroad of Composition, Electronic Music, Jazz, Guitar, Choir Conduction, and others.

¡¿Lamento?! (¡¿Lament?!)

@ctb.exp#1 (2017)
for Solo Double Bass
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Composition: Pedro F. Finisterra

Double Bass: Nuno Osório

Recording: Antena 2

Commissioned by RTP/Antena 2 for the 31st Edition of the "Prémio Jovens Músicos" Festival
Escola de Música do Conservatório Nacional - Salão Nobre
Lisbon, Portugal
16th of June, 2017

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Tri Improvizaĵoj por MIDI-Klavaro (2018)
for MIDI Keyboard

I. Justa Ekkanto (Just Intonation)
II. Mesotono (Meantone)
III. Dorika Spektro (Dorian Spectrum)

These are three improvisations using the Max/MSP patch “12-NET Microtonal Keyboard” that I developed for my final assessment of the “Electro-Acoustic Music” class at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, oriented by professor Nye Parry.
“12-NET Microtonal Keyboard” is a virtual microtonal keyboard that lets the user customise a chromatic scale by “detuning” each of the 12 notes as one pleases.

MIDI Keyboard: Pedro F. Finisterra

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I. Justa Ekkanto

We are our dreams of ourselves (2018)

"I.

Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
          We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
          And each to each other dreams of others' dreams."

Poem: Fernando Pessoa [from "35 Sonets"]
Music: Pedro Laranjeira Finisterra

Voice: Pedro Laranjeira Finisterra
Instruments: Garage Band

Painting: José de Almada Negreiros - Portrait of Fernando Pessoa (1964)

22nd of July, 2018
London, United Kingdom

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We are our dreams of ourselves

(For video with English and Portuguese subtitles go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A3b3joAFPA)

Nymphus: Mithraic Initiation Rite Number Two (2017)
for Mezzo, Tenor, Baritone and Piano

Mithras is a Roman god (possibly originating from Persia) who was worshipped between the 1st and 4th centuries AD.  Roman soldiers brought Mithraism to Britain, where the religion caught on.  Mithraic worshippers were all male, and the practice of Mithraism was restricted to initiates (as was the case with all mystery religions).  There were seven levels of initiation, and though most of the rites with deliberately clouded in secrecy, a few details can be gleaned.  The rest must be guessed at.
This is a reconstruction of the 2nd level initiation, the Nymphus or male bride.  The symbols such as the lamp, veil, and goblets all appear in drawings or snatches of description. The Nymphus is married to Mithras, and, like a priest, asked to be celibate. A Mystagogue, probably a higher level initiate, leads the ceremony.  In this recreation, the voice of Mithras is also heard.  The scene is inspired, in part, by the newly restored Mithraeum in downtown London.


Libretto: Edward Einhorn
Composition: Pedro F. Finisterra

Cast:
The Voice (Mezzo): Natalie Davies
Nymphus (Tenor): Florian Pierre Panzieri
Mystagogue (Baritone): Joël Terrin

Piano: Ashley Beauchamp

New Opera Scenes
Goodenough College
London, United Kingdom
May 16th, 2018

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Nymphus: Mithraic Initiation Rite Number Two

La vojaĝo (2018)
for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano and Percussion

Written during Noosa ISAM 2019 for the Ensemble Offspring and with the guidance of Ofer Ben-Amots and Jan Jirásek.

Composition: Pedro F. Finisterra

Ensemble Offspring
Flute: Lamorna Nightingale
Clarinet: Jason Noble
Violin: Emma Jardine
Cello: Rowena Macneish
Piano: Benjamin Kopp
Percussion: Claire Edwardes

Composing Noosa
Noosa Arts Theatre
Noosa, Queensland, Australia
March 8th, 2019

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La vojaĝo

Babel (2019)
for Mixed Choir SATB

Written during 2019 Choral Chameleon Institute under the guidance of Joseph Stilwell, Steve Smith and Dale Trumbore.

In in the Bible on Genesis 11: 1-9, the story of the creation of the Tower of Babel is narrated. Seeing that this monument was getting so tall that it was almost reaching the heavens, God decided to scatter humanity through the world and gave them different languages so that they would not be able to communicate with each other.
Through this piece, using an already “scattered” poem by Edward Einhorn based on this story and translations of it over into 20 languages, and by creating scales based on the division of the major 7th (11 semitones) from 1 to 9 I try to, respectively, symbolically illustrate the scattering of one language (in this case English) into a multitude of others and generate the form and pitch material for this piece based on the section of the Bible in which this story is told.
I wholeheartedly thank all these amazing people for translating and helping with the translation process of Edward Einhorn’s poem: Armando Possante, Bjorn Vandenneucker, Carmen Artaza, Carolina Alexandra, Christos Callow Jr., Giovanni Zaniol, Jack Wong, Jean-Phillippe Drécourt, Julia Owczarek, Junzuo Li, Laura Farré Rozada, Laura Hildebrandt, Margarida Espiguinha, Maria Clara Costa, Maria VA Soares, Mia Søndergaard Nielsen, Nasr-Eddine Lalaoui, Nilufar Habibian, Ofer Ben- Amots, Pedro Manuel Finisterra, Rosa van Alphen, Tari, Vova, Vova’s mum & Yana. Without them this piece would not exist.


"BABEL

Lost

Lost the

Words are

Lost

Tower went too high

Babel

Do you understand me?

Babel

Babel

Words are

Went too high

Do you understand?

Lost

Words are

Went too

Babel

Words are

Understand me

Words are

Words are

Babel

Babel

Ba – Ba

Ba"


Poem: Edward Einhorn
Music: Pedro F. Finisterra

Conduction: Matthew Oltman
Choral Chameleon

2019 Choral Chameleon Institute Concert
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States of America
29th of June, 2019

Painting: "The Tower of Babel", by Joos de Momper & Frans Francken

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Babel

Transeuntes // Passer-by (2019)
music for the Seller Danza company's contemporary dance show "Transeuntes"

Composition: Pedro F. Finisterra
Choreography: Juan Maria Seller

Piano: João Pedro Guimas

[Premiere]
Centro Cultural do Cartaxo
Cartaxo, Portugal
14th of December, 2019

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Transeuntes - Part 2

Transeuntes - Part 1

Multidão: I. Primeiro // Crowd: I. First (2017)
a Monodrama for Countertenor and Ensemble

Score and Recording of the full Monodrama at: https://portfolios.esml.ipl.pt/obras/multidao-i-primeiro/

Libretto: Nuno Cruz
Composition: Pedro F. Finisterra

Direction: Luís Madureira
Conductor: Diogo da Costa Ferreira

Countertenor: Rui Vieira

Flute & Alto Flute: Adriana Rebelo
Clarinet: Inês Lorenço
Horn: Ana Graça
Harp: Maria Kuznetsova
Percussion: Francisco Cipriano
Violin I: Nicolas Alejandro Latorre Contreras
Violin II: Jaime Lourenço Jacob
Violoncello: Pedro Massarrão
Double Bass: João Vargas

Video recording: João Damas
Audio recording: Carlos Marecos

Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa - Pequeno Auditório
Lisbon, Portugal
23rd of May, 2018

“Multidão” is part of Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa’s project “Criação, Circulação, Registo e Edição de Obras de Música Portuguesa Contemporânea” ("Creation, Circulation, Registration and Publication of Portuguese Contemporary Music Works”).

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Multidão - I. Primeiro

MA.RIM.BA (2018)
for Marimba and Electronics

Composition: Pedro F. Finisterra
Marimba: Cristiano Rios

This is a home recording, recorded by Cristiano Rios & mixed Pedro F. Finisterra.

This piece was premiered at Casa da Música, Porto, Portugal, on the 28th of January 2020. The recording of the premiere is available here: https://soundcloud.com/cristiano-rios-642846313/marimba-pedro-finisterra-live-casa-da-musica

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MA.RIM.BA

Born in 1994, Lisbon, Pedro studied at Conservatório de Música de Santarém, having concluded his secondary studies on Musical Theory in 2013.

He did a Major in Composition at Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (2013-16), studying under Carlos Marecos, Carlos Caires and Luís Tinoco. He also had classes with António Pinho Vargas, Sérgio Azevedo, João Madureira and José Luís Ferreira. In 2018 he finished his MA on Opera Making & Writing - Composition Path, at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, in London, studying under Julian Philips. Since 2019 he has been doing a MPhil/DMus in Composition at Guildhall School of Music and Drama under the supervision of Julian Anderson, Malcolm Singer and Mira Benjamin.

He studied Jazz at Hot Club de Portugal (Electric Bass and Combo, with Massimo Cavalli and Gonçalo Marques, respectively) and was a member of Big Band Júnior (2010-14), conducted by Claus Nymark.

He also participated on several workshops in Portugal and abroad of Composition, Electronic Music, Jazz, Guitar, Choir Conduction, and others.

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