Ongoing Projects

Lost&Found: Analysing and reconstructing sixteenth-century Portuguese polyphony

Principal investigator: João Pedro d' Alvarenga Co-principal investigator: Manuel Pedro Ferreira Research group: Early Music...

THEMATIC HISTORY OF MUSIC IN PORTUGAL AND BRAZIL

Bearing in mind its role in world History, music in Portugal, Brazil and the southern...

Portuguese contemporary music composers and ensembles: collective heritage preservation

The CESEM’s “Portuguese contemporary music composers and ensembles” project intends to digitize, study and preserve...

José Mário Branco

José Mário Branco is one of the personalities that most marked Portuguese music since the...

Database Musicians of the Franciscan Order

The Database Music OFM Portugal aims to provide specialized researchers with a list of online...

Manuel Emílio Porto’s Estate

CESEM signed a cooperation protocol with Doctor Maria de Jesus Maciel, responsible for the estate...

The Renaissance Canons

The Renaissance Canons website (https://renaissancecanons.com/) is part of a research project developed within the framework...

Creation, circulation, audio recording and editing of works of contemporary Portuguese music, in a reflexive perspective (CCRE-MPC)

Main Researcher: Carlos Marecos Team: Carlos Marecos (ESML) Carlos Caires (ESML) António Pinho Vargas (ESML) José...

Operando

Main Researcher: Sílvia Mateus Team: Sílvia Mateus (coordenator)| ESML, Carlos Marecos | ESML, Sérgio Henriques...

LabMMx

Main Researcher: Carlos Caires Team: Carlos Caires, Jaime Reis, Paulo Pacheco Lab for performance and...

Opera production in a contemporary creative context

Keyword: Opera, Contemporary staging, Contemporary opera, Repertoire opera, Staging, Voice, Composition, Libretto Summary: This project...

Archives – Directory of Portuguese Composers for Wind Band / Wind Orchestra

Main Researcher: Pedro Marquês de Sousa Team: Alberto Roque | Professor da ESML. colaborators: Jorge...

Portfolios

Main Researcher: Carlos Caires Team: Carlos Caires (ESML), Carlos Marecos (ESML), Didier Hochart (ESCS) Paulo Barbosa...

Performance and Context

Main Researcher: Ricardo Pinheiro Team: Ricardo Pinheiro, Carlos Caires, Jorge Ramos (FCT Fellow), João Silva...

PASEV: Patrimonialization of Évora’s Soundscape – 1540-1910

This project intends to open and explore new perspectives on the cultural manifestations in the...

Music Archive of the Museum-Library of the Ducal Palace in Vila Viçosa

The Music Archive of the Museum-Library of the House of Braganza, given its scale, variety...

Itinerant musical composition classes to develop and enhance artistic skills

Title: "Itinerant musical composition classes to develop and enhance artistic skills" Acronym: IMCC Duration of...