In this seminar, we will look at the careers of female musicians and personalities from a broad range of historical, geographical, and socio-political contexts from the 14th century to the present. The objective is to examine the non-linear paths of these women and their relationship to social mobility, status search, and posthumous recognition. How have...

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The MAGICA: Science and Spectacle in the 19th Century exhibition will open on 11 February at 6 pm. The opening will include a visit led by Márcia Vilarigues and Luísa Cymbron and demonstrations of the glass harp by Maria Sempiterno and Francisco Monteiro. The exhibition will be displayed at the National Museum of Natural History...

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DBW25 is a wander, a journey through the various constellations of the CMT Universe, an 'expanding universe' that has its source of pulsation in artistic creation. Made in the Pianoscópio, the ‘laboratory-sound factory’ that Companhia de Música Teatral (CMT) invented several years ago, DBW25 has found a very special 'resonance' in the Fábrica Centro Ciência...

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The Madeira Musicology and Art Studies Academy of the Madeira Conservatory - School of the Arts and the Regional Directorate for Culture are presenting the exhibition ‘Musical Iconography in the Churches and Chapels of Funchal’, dedicated to the visual representation of music in Funchal's sacred heritage. Organised by Paulo Esteireiro (Conservatory - Madeira School of...

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The exhibition What a man is capable of — José Mário Branco's Collection (CESEM, INET-md, CEDJMB-ML), which was on display at the NOVA Reitoria in September and October 2024, will be exhibited at the Festival of Justice and Freedom, organized by Odemira city hall. The exhibition's opening will take place on April 12 at 4...

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With the aim of celebrating the music and work of José Mário Branco 6 VIOLAS presents the disc “Águas paradas não movem moinhos”. Conceived and carried out by composer and viola player José Valente, this project establishes an unexpected link between classical music and intervention song to honour and praise the unavoidable legacy of one...

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The Nova Contemporary Music Meeting (NCMM) is a biennial three-day international conference centred on a variety of issues related to music since the beginning of the 20th century. This year's theme is ‘Today's Music Memory’. NCMM 2025 will feature Matthias Rebstock (Hildesheim, Germany) and Anne-Sylvie Barthel-Calvet (Strasbourg, France) as keynote speakers. The event will also...

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On 14 May at 5 pm, the Grand Auditorium of the ESML - IPL hub will be the stage for the works Intersonos culturis by Luísa Basílio, Progresso by Mafalda Rocha Lemos, Oidhche Shamhna by João Quinteiro and Play-Off by Vasco Mendonça. The concert results from a collaborative project of the percussion and composition course at the Lisbon School of Music.

The third session of Conversas a Meias (May 15, Thursday, noon), entitled ‘Guided Tour of DBW25’, will be led by Paulo Maria Rodrigues (University of Aveiro and Companhia de Música Teatral) and moderated by Diogo Nunes (former student at the Santa Cecília Music Academy and rapper in ‘O Gigante Adamastor’, a work composed by Paulo...

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We are looking for children and their carers for music sessions in May 2025. The sessions are free of charge. As part of their training, students from the Music in Childhood Postgraduate Programme (NOVA FCSH) will lead these sessions, which will take place at LaMCI-LEC, Colégio Almada Negreiros - Campolide Campus, from 4.30 pm to...

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