II Historical Soundscape Meeting – Évora 2019 College Mateus d’Aranda, University of Évora, October 16th-18th, 2019   The notion of soundscapes, which is being increasingly referred to in international musicological circles, makes it possible to understand musical activity that takes place in a particular area from a wide-ranging contextual perspective, unlike a view centred on... Read More

POST-OPERA, exhibitions, live-performances, symposium; Curated by Jelena Novak and Kris Dittel TENT Rotterdam 19.04.-30.06.2019 V2 and Operadagen Rotterdam festival   Event website: https://www.tentrotterdam.nl/en/show/next-up-post-opera/

In the context of the Days of Music at the CCB, the half-soprano Carolina Figueiredo and the pianist and collaborator of the CESEM José Brandão present, on April 27 at 6pm, a song recital inspired by texts by William Shakespeare. From Schumann to Lopes-Graça, through Berlioz, Korngold, and many other composers who welcomed Shakespeare’s dramaturgy... Read More

The harpsichordist and researcher Mafalda Nejmeddine is on tour with a spectacle to promote the discographic edition “Sei Sonate per Cembalo”, which is the first recording of a collection of keyboard sonatas composed by Alberto José Gomes da Silva, in Lisbon, in the second half of the 18th century. The spectacle “Sei Sonate per Cembalo”... Read More

9TH CONFERENCE ON MUSICAL RESEARCH SPIM – Portuguese Society for Research in Music in partnership with the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities – New University of Lisbon November 14th to 16th 2019 Place:New University of Lisbon Keynote speakers Steven Feld (University of Michigan) José Oliveira Martins (Universidade Católica do Porto) Call for papers... Read More

Book launch in 2018 written by Celina Arroz.

Participation of the CESEM researcher Celina Arroz at the Colloquium Aquilino, Anos 20: Entre o Exílio e as Geografias de Lisboa to be held on May 16 at the National Library of Portugal. See program here.

Conference by Guilhermina Lopes 19th May 2019 17h-19h Centro Cultural de Cascais Fernando Lopes-Graça’s relation with Brazilian intellectual milieu comprehends two trips (1958 and 1969), text publishing, Portuguese premières of Brazilian music, dedications, compositions and a vast correspondence (more than 4 decades and 40 interlocutors – performers, composers, musicologists, critics and institutions). Works of two... Read More

Porto (Portugal) December 2019. Conference dates: December 12-14, 2019 Deadline for abstracts: 1 August, 2019 Call for papers: pianocontemporaneo4@gmail.com Location: Porto, Portugal The fourth International Contemporary Piano Meeting will take place on December 12-14 2019 at the School of Music and Performing Arts (ESMAE/IPPorto, Portugal) in affiliation with the the Graduate Program in Music of... Read More