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Coro Juvenil da Universidade de Lisboa
Coro Juvenil da Universidade de Lisboa
In 2025, Lisbon and Porto will host, for the first time, the World New Music Days Festival, organised this year by Miso Music Portugal, in celebration of its 40th anniversary. The festival brings together Portuguese and international musicians and composers, this year, under the theme Sede Para Mudar (Thirst for Change), reflecting the theme of urgency and transformation that is imposed on the “blue planet” in the face of current environmental and social challenges.
At Culturgest, the University of Lisboa Youth Choir presents the concert Dawns and Downs a varied repertoire that includes works by Fernando Lopes-Graça, Jukka Linkola, Benjamin Britten, and Francis Poulenc and contemporary pieces by Dan Walker (Listen Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?), Chris Sivak (Alouette Meets Her Maker), Mirela Ivičević (Innate Heaven), and Alfredo Santa Ana (The River of Hellos and Goodbyes).
Created by the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM/UNESCO), the festival, with almost a century of existence, marks a historic moment for contemporary music in Portugal and asserts itself as a unique event of artistic creation and cooperation.
06 JUN 2025
FRI 21:30
Programme
OLIVIER MESSIAEN (France, 1908-1992)
Sacrum Convivium (1937), 4’30’’
TÕNU KÕRVITS (Estonia, 1969)
Canticle of the sun (2014)
IV. Brother Wind and Air
VI. Sister Water
KERENSA BRIGGS (UK, 1991) YCA
Media Vita (2015) 3’10’’
ALFREDO SANTA ANA (Canada, 1980)
The River of Hellos and Goodbyes (2024), 5';
Obra submetida pelo ISCM Music on Main
MIRELA IVIČEVIĆ (Croatia, 1980)
Innate Heaven (Music for Religious Institutions, Chapter I) (2023), 5';
Obra submetida pela secção croata da ISCM
EVA AGUILAR (Portugal, 2002) YCA
Alumia (2022)
ANDRÉ RUIZ (Portugal, 1971)
Água Viva (2023), 4’ EA
DAN WALKER (Australia, 1978)
Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life? (2022), 5';
Obra submetida pela secção australiana da ISCM
CHRIS SIVAK (Canadá, 1982)
Alouette Meets Her Maker (2018), 5';
Obra submetida pela secção canadiana da ISCM
— intervalo —
BENJAMIN BRITTEN (Reino Unido, 1913–1976)
The Ballad of Little Musgrave (1943), 5';
FERNANDO LOPES-GRAÇA (Portugal, 1906–1994)
3 Esconjuros (1956), 5';
JUKKA LINKOLA (Finlânida, 1955)
Primitive Music: (1998), 8';
1. The Sunrise,
2. The Work Song,
3. The Candle Song,
4. The Ritual Dance,
5. The Joiku
SOLIA SARIOLA (Finland, 1977)
Pakkanem
GABRIEL FAURÉ (France, 1845–1924)
Cantique de Jean Racine (1865)
YCA · candidato ao ISCM Young Composers Award
EA · estreia absoluta
Support
Conductor Nova Era Vocal Ensemble
João Barros
Conductor Youth Choir of Lisbon
Erica Mandillo
Piano
João Lucena e Vale
Nova Era Vocal Ensemble
Mercado Chumová, Sofia Vieira, Mafalda Carvalho, Maria Inês Canavilhas, Vera Livério, Inês Chora, Rita Meireles, Sarah Kean, Tiago Caldas, Filipe Teixeira, Alberto Araújo, Tiago Guedes, Martim Líbano Monteir, Lucas Mandilo, João Chaves, Alexandre Coelho, João Coutinho, João Barros, Marija Voitenkova, Manuel Fontão, Leandro Arez, Joana Silva
Youth Choir of the Lisbon University
Alice Luís, Alice Marques, Beatriz Alves, Camila Costa, Carolina Guimarães, Catarina Pinto, Clara Bacharel, Daniel Melenas, David Alves, Erica Mandillo de Castro Guimarães, Félix Nunes Robb, Francisca Soares, Gustavo Luz, Joana Cabral, Joana Madeira Cameirão, Joana Ribeiro, João Hörnig, João de Brito e Cunha de Lucena e Vale, João Bacharel, Johanna Ahamad, José Louro, Júlia Núncio, Leonor Tomé, Lucas Robert, Madalena Cardeira, Madalena Santos, Mafalda Simões Correia, Manuel Mota, Maria Beatriz Gonçalves, Inês Lourenço, Leonor Lourenço, Maria Grilo, Maria Carita, Maria Santos, Mariana Amaro, Mariana Eiró, Mariana Pereira, Matias rodrigues, Matilde Valadas, Matilde Luís, Matilde Rosa, Miguel de Matos, Rosa Robert Lopes, Sara Robert, Simão Guerreiro, Sofia Vale, Sofia Santos, Tiago Saad, Tiago Varela da Silva, Tomás Silva, Tomás Costa, Tomé Beles, Vasco Pinto Gonçalves, Vasco Varela da Silva, Débora Coquim Joana Nascimento
Production
Miso Music Portugal / Festival Música Viva
Support
Ministério da Cultura | Direção Geral das Artes, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, BPI | Fundação "la Caixa", Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Miso Portugal
Executive director
Paula Azguime
Artistic director
Miguel Azguime
Production and organisation
Jakub Szczypa, Maria da Paz Carvalho
Technical production
Cláudio de Pina, Eduardo Serra
Filming
Estrela Barradas, Jade Mandillo, Mariana Sendim
Intern
Leonardo Edmundson Andrade
Volunteer
Ana Rita Costa
Journalist
Pedro Boléo
Support
Ministério da Cultura | Direção Geral das Artes, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, BPI | Fundação "la Caixa", Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
