[xs-26] cláudio moreira - showcase @ fnac bragaparque 02-06-08

artist: cláudio moreira

album: showcase @ fnac bragaparque 02-06-08

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Steping aside presentations to those ones that have someway been inside the work of the netlabel, claudio moreira presents himsfelf in this new recording registry this time, in a small showcase in the braga's fnac, a small city in the north of Portugal
With an aesthetic aproach completely avant gard and influences which come from Boulez to Stockhausen to John Cage and so on, Claudio Moreira (horn compostion and radios) presents himself in this registry together with virigilio oliveira (basson and radios), with who performs his own works, and tiago morgado which joins them to make an intercourse between works of tiago morgado as a composer and improviser adn to the aesthetic of the instrumental writting of claudio moreira.
Even minding that it's a small work, it allows us to have a more clear wider and more concret and precise vision of the work of claudio moreira while composer and performer and eventually to reveal a future and promiser member of the next generation of portuguese musicians and composers.

[xs-23] the oniric - the oniric

artist: the oniric

album: the oniric

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Today I present you a project of a long date friend, Luis Guilherme , who I met while I was still a child. and who brought us, among with his friend Luis Silva this fine ep which is actually their very first recording registry and where we can listen to some kind of singular sound that trancends music cathegories, where dark ambient is conflued with electronica, goth music and at a more conceptual basis, trip hop, neo-folk fado, XIXth century classical music power and intelligent pop in a fusion registry. To listen and re-listend with the dued attention.

[xs-15] emanuel salvador - selected performances

artist: emanuel salvador

album: selected performances

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We are glad to announce this new release by Emanuel Salvador, one of Portugal's most promising young violinist.

Emanuel Salvador, one of the finest Portuguese violinists of his generation.
Strad Magazine, Agosto de 2007

Born in 1981, Emanuel Salvador has already performed as a soloist and chamber musician in many important venues including St. Martin-in-the-Fields and Southwark Cathedral (London), Philharmonic Hall (Uralsk - Kazakhstan), Gulbenkian Museum, Rivoli Theatre and Bank of Portugal Hall (Lisbon), Principe Filipe Hall (Oviedo, Spain), Centro de las Artes Escenicas y de la Musica (Salamanca, Spain), Sto. Antonio Church (Rome) and Manoel Theatre (Malta). He has been awarded several prizes such as: first prize at Isolde Menges (RCM) and Beckenham Festival competitions; Barbirolli Memorial and Wolfson Foundation Award; second prize at Jovens Musicos competition; Honours Mention at Julio Cardona International Competition - Portugal; Gulbenkian Foundation Scholarship (2000-2003), amongst others. In 1999 Emanuel graduated from Artave (a specialist music school) as the best student of the year. During this time he studied with Costa Santos, Sergei Aroutiounian and Yakow Marr. He then moved to London, where he got a Bachelor of Music Degree from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (studying with Professor John Glickman) and a Masters Degree in Advanced Performance at the Royal College of Music, where he studied with Dr. Felix Andrievsky. Other professors with whom Emanuel studied include Ulf Hoelscher, Alberto Lysy, Vadim Brodsky, David Takeno, Gerardo Ribeiro and Ilya Grubert. As a concerto soloist Emanuel has played with Artave, do Norte, Nonesuch, Morley College, Vitalis, Newbury Symphony and Nova Amadeus orchestras, under Antonio Soares, Ferreira Lobo, Vi tor Matos, Chris Dawe, David Drummond and Massimo Scapin. His festival appearances include Encontros da Primavera e O violino por (Portugal), Proms in St. Judes and Ampthill (U.K.) and at the International String Orchestra Festival (Malta). Some of his performances have been recorded for the Portuguese Radio and Khabar TV (Kazakhstan). The Violin Concerto by Joaquim dos Santos, was written for, and premiered by Emanuel in Rome in June 2005 and later in Portugal. The first performance was recorded for the Portuguese Institute in Rome. Karl Fiorini's Violin Concerto, also written for Emanuel, which was premiered in Rotterdam in March 2008. Emanuel is an active chamber musician and has studied in masterclasses with Bernard Greenhouse (Beaux Arts), Florestan and Peabody trios and the Borodin, Takacs and Vellinger Quartets. He was a founder member of the Vianna da Motta Piano Trio, with whom he performed extensively in the U.K. and Portugal and recorded a CD for Centro Atlantico label. In 2003, he formed a violin and harp Duo with Ieuan Jones, playing regularly in the U.K. Since September 2005 Emanuel is the leader of Orquestra do Norte in Portugal. In June 2006 he played second solo violin in Gulbenkian Foundation's project Uma Pequena Flauta Magica (Lisbon). He plays on a tonal copy of a Guarnerius del Gesu, by Martin Schleske (Munich, 2004), which he acquired with the help of a Loan Fund for Musical Instruments' grant.

[xs-07] C R Moreira - sauroposeidon

artist: CR Moreira

album: sauroposeidon

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release date: 2008-03-07

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C R Moreira was born in 1989, in Oporto. In 2003, he starts to study music in Musical Academy Of Lousada, where he studied horn with Filipe Fonseca and Ricardo Matosinhos. In 2005, he enter in ARTAVE - Escola Profissional Artistica do Vale do Ave, in the horn class of professor Helder Vales. In 2006, he starts to compose by himself learning composition by himself. In 2007, his works have been performed by 10 times. Right now, he is working in seminary with Emmanuel Nunes. He is finishing the winds programme in ARTAVE 

Sauroposeidon is a work of the young composer, that makes part of a cycle of pieces which leads us into the origins of the existence in this planet. Although this release is intended to promote this young talented and devoted portuguese composer, we do not Intend to make it represent a serious performance of it - the prove of that is that what you will hear is some sort of sampled orchestra which audio has been remastered, and then if although this is extremely impressive, imagine what would be a performance of professional instrumentists working during 1 intense work-week on it.