Semana da Pós-Graduação em Composição Aplicada 2024/25

25 a 31 de Julho de 2025

Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa | Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa

Lisboa Incomum

O curso de pós-graduação em Composição Musical Aplicada visa proporcionar formação técnica actualizada no domínio da produção musical, privilegiando os domínios do experimentalismo associado à multiplicidade de práticas inerentes à música erudita ocidental contemporânea e à diversidade de meios de produção que lhe são inerentes. Durante a última semana deste curso de pós-graduação, os alunos terão a oportunidade de trabalhar com os músicos de renome internacional do Ensemble Recherche e do Ensemble Schallfeld, que irão estrear as suas peças, e com os professores Luis Naón (CNSMD Paris), Rut Schereiner (CNSMD Paris), Alex Waite (HMDK Stuttgart) e Michele Tadini (CNSMD Lyon). Concertos: 25 de Julho 20H Auditório Vianna da Motta | Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa Entrada livre O Projecto DME tem o prazer de anunciar o concerto do Ensemble DME, sob a direção do maestro francês Jean-Philippe Wurtz, convidado regular dos grandes festivais dedicados à música contemporânea. Este concerto será dedicado ao movimento da Nova Complexidade, um movimento que desafia as fronteiras da composição tradicional, recorrendo a técnicas e texturas densas e altamente detalhadas.

29 de Julho 20H Lisboa Incomum - Projecto DME Entrada Livre O professor Alex Waite irá interpretar as obras dos alunos da pós-graduação no espaço do Lisboa Incomum (parceria com o Projecto DME). Estas obras serão todas para piano solo e algumas com eletrónica. Programa: Amanda Onnela - Fib. 21 / Lustige Spiele Agustín Castellón Molina - MALINCONIA Eric So - National Education: Musicking João Quinteiro - [ab]strata_sP1 Marco Benetti - 3 Etudes Pouyan Ramezanpour - Hezar Hazārān - هزار هزاران 30 de Julho 20H Auditório Vianna da Motta | Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa Entrada livre O Ensemble Schallfeld irá interpretar as obras compostas pelos alunos. Programa: Amanda Onnela - Yöaie / نية آخر الليل Agustín Castellón Molina - violet veins Eric So - Spatial Canon João Quinteiro - [ab]strata_wA:pS:sC Marco Benetti - Trio n. 3 Pouyan Ramezanpour - Derevaun Seraun 31 de Julho 20H Auditório Vianna da Motta | Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa Entrada livre O Ensemble Recherche irá interpretar as obras compostas pelos alunos. Programa: Amanda Onnela - Meditationen einer Hexe während sie auf dem Scheiterhaufen verbrannt wird Agustín Castellón Molina - agonies rammed against Eric So - Situations in Urban Soundscape João Quinteiro - Marco Benetti - Pouyan Ramezanpour - Khāvarān - خاوران —---------- Os alunos da Pós-Graduação em Composição Musical Aplicada: - Agustín Castellón Molina Agustín Castellón Molina is a Chilean composer, pianist, and pedagogue based in Leipzig, Germany. His music has been described as suggestive and with a highly sensorial quality. It is characterized by intersecting narrative transformation, emotional tension, and internal soundscapes, the interpretation of which consistently demands intense inner listening from the performer. His creative process integrates poetry, psychology, visual arts, and improvisation, sculpting timbres from a sonic and emotional cartography. He has also garnered attention for his precise notation and custom-made instruments. His works have been programmed at festivals such as Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik (Witten, Germany), Klangspuren (Schwaz, Austria), Festival Ensemble(s) (Paris, France), Rondò (Milan, Italy), and .abeceda Contemporary Music Festival (Bled, Slovenia), and have been performed by renowned ensembles including IEMA, Schallfeld, Recherche, Multilatérale, Les Métaboles, Dissolution Ensemble, Klangforum Wien, and the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna. He was trained in Chile, Italy, Germany, and Portugal, primarily under the direction of Luca Belcastro and Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, and his artistic voice has also been influenced by figures such as C. Iannotta, Y. Robin, S. Nemtsov, F. Filidei, C. Czernowin, T. Murail, L. Lim, P. Billone, E. Reiter, F. Bedrossian, L. Naón and M. Tadini. - Amanda Onnela Amanda Onnela is working at the intersection of contemporary music and performative ritual. With a background in piano, voice, and composition, she studied at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music (Berlin), the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Academy (Leipzig), and is currently completing her postgraduate studies in composition at ESML in Lisbon. Her music has been presented across Europe and the U.S., including the chamber opera A Voice of One’s Own for four singers and live electronics (MECA Houston, 2022), Viiankiaapa – Cantus Borealis for chamber ensemble (Sinettä Chamber Music Festival Rovaniemi, 2024), Study of Power in Silence Festival, Finland, and her upcoming Ecstasies & Embodiments at Berghain Berlin (2025). - Ho-chi So So Ho-chi is a multimedia composer whose work spans instrumental and vocal music, electroacoustic composition, field recordings, music theatre, and audiovisual performance. Rooted in his experience growing up in postcolonial Hong Kong, his practice explores themes of identity, multiplicity, and cultural hybridity. Through recontextualizing sonic and performative materials, he constructs layered forms and situations that question musical and theatrical conventions. His works often emerge from acts of appropriation, reinterpretation, and system-building—inviting audiences to reflect on the assumptions underlying artistic structures. His music has been presented at festivals and events including Gaudeamus Muziekweek, ISCM World Music Days, the Asian Composers’ League, and the Three Choirs Festival. He has worked with a wide range of ensembles and artists, such as the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, MAZE Ensemble, New European Ensemble, Orkest de Ereprijs, and Nederlands Dans Theater. So studied composition and electronic music at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts on a full scholarship from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund, and continued at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague with support from the Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong. - João Quinteiro João Quinteiro é compositor, encontra-se em Doutoramento na FCSH - Kunstuniversität Graz - Fondazionne Archivio Luigi Nono. Estudou com Isabel Soveral, João Pedro Oliveira, Evgueni Zoudilkine, Emmanuel Nunes e Beat Furrer, e contactado com compositores como B. Ferneyhough, P. Billone e H. Lachenmann. Integra a Direcção da Associação Portuguesa de Compositores. A sua música tem sido tocada e encomendada por formações e intérpretes nacionais como o Lisbon Ensemble 20/21, o GMCL - Grupo de Música Contemporânea de Lisboa, o OpuSpiritum Ensemble, o Duo Sigma, o Astrus Duo, o Kodu Percussion Group, o Ipsis Duo, Henrique Portovedo, André Correia, Marco Fernandes e formações internacionais como o Mise-en Ensemble (NY), Vertixe Sonora (Galiza) e o Projecto Creative Collision (Leipzig). - Marco Benetti Marco Benetti is a composer and musicologist. His compositional activity has led him to present projects at international festivals such as Biennale Musica (Venice), ManiFeste (IRCAM - Centre Pompidou), Macerata Opera Festival, IMPULS (Kunstuniversität Graz), Festival 5 Giornate (Milan), Festival Mixtur (Barcelona) and to collaborate among others with Ensemble InterContemporain, Divertimento Ensemble, Schallfeld Ensemble, Ensemble Recherche, ACRHOME Ensemble, ContempoartEnsemble. He teaches Theory of harmony and analysis at the G. B. Pergolesi Conservatory in Fermo (Marche, Italy). His music is published by BabelScores. He is interested in sound as an unstable, fluctuating, queer phenomenon. - Pouyan Ramezanpour Pouyan Ramezanpour (b. 2000, Tehran) is a composer and multidisciplinary artist whose work drifts between sound, image, and gesture. His music follows a poetic impulse—where language unravels, memory drifts, and form dissolves; where presence hovers, flickers, fades, like something half-remembered. As a filmmaker, he has recently finished making his first short fiction and is currently developing a feature film. Os Professores da Pós-Graduação em Composição Musical Aplicada: -Alex Waite Alex is primarily active in contemporary music, as a freelancer and as the pianist of the ELISION ensemble. He is the recipient of the Dwight and Ursula Mamlok Prize Berlin 2024, has performed as a soloist and chamber musician on BBC 3, ABC Classic (Australia), SWR and WDR, recorded for Kairos, HCR, Wergo and Lisboa Incomum CD releases, plays with the Ensemble DME (Lisbon) and as regular guest with ensembles around Germany, and has performed in Europe, Asia, the USA, South America and Australia. Festivals include ECLAT, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Shanghai New Music Week, the Metropolis New Music Festival, Melbourne Festival, BIFEM, Extended Play, a performance at the National Concert Hall of Taiwan, and a residency at the Center for 21st Century Music in Buffalo, New York. He has worked with composers including Liza Lim, Michael Maierhof, Luxa Schüttler, Evan Johnson, Peter Ablinger, Turgut Erçetin, Helmut Lachenmann, Orm Finnendahl and Aaron Cassidy, who recently wrote his Piano Concerto for Alex and ELISION. His mentors include Nicolas Hodges, Timothy Young, Daryl Buckley, Christof Löser, Paul Rickard-Ford and Judy Hall. Alex is currently based in Stuttgart, Germany. He is a lecturer at the HMDK Stuttgart and ESML (Lisbon). -Luis Naón Luis NAÓN was born in 1961, La Plata (Argentina). He undertook Musical studies at the National University of La Plata, Buenos Aires then at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris with Guy Reilbel, Laurent Cuniot, Daniel Teruggi, Sergio Ortega and Horacio Vaggione. PhD in Esthétique, Science et Technologie des Arts at Paris 8. Luis Naón is a Professor of Composition and Computer Music at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris since 1991. He became a professor of Composition at The ESMuC – Escola Superior de Musica de Calunya (Barcelona) in 2002 and Professor in Electroacustics at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève since 2006. From « Final del Juego » (for septuor and tape, premiered at Radio France in 1983), and which can be considered his first work, and since then, Luis Naón has been seeking to compose according to a dual relationship, inherited from his musical experience in electronics and from his bicultural identity. His works have been played in prestigious auditoriums and festivals in Europe, America and Asia. They were distinguished by the UNESCO Rostrum in 1990 and 1996, the Buenos Aires town Prize in 1991 and in 1995. He won the SACEM’s « George Enesco Prize »in 2001 and the « Caja de Granada’s Luis de Narváez Prize The « Urbana », a cycle of 24 works, was born a few years ago. It crystallizes under this title trough « Urbana » for accordion, percussion and real time premiered in Ircams’s festival Agora in 1998. This cycle consists of several stages whithin the chamber opera trough orchestral pieces. He composed for the opening of TAC (Theatre Auditorium Poitiers) the entire music for the « Princesses » a ballet, mainly choreographically conducted by Odile Azagury which includes many diferent works for electronics and instruments. His most recent works, “Rastros”, “Geminis”, “EJE” and “String Quartett III” were premiered during 21/22 at Montréal, Santiago, Lugano and Geneva. He is now working on “Oruga”, (Rio Negro, Argnetina) for Marimba and orchestra, and “Fueye” (TM+ ensamble in France) for bandoneon and ensamble. His works are edited by Henry Lemoine, Gérard Billaudot and BabelScores. -Michele Tadini Born in Milan (Italy). Composer, professor of composition (Musique Mixte) at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance of Lyon. He graduated at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan : in guitar in the class of Ruggero Chiesa, in composition in the class of Sandro Gorli and Giacomo Manzoni and electronic music in the class of Riccardo Sinigaglia. He followed the course of Franco Donatoni at the Scuola Civica in Milan and at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena where he obtained in 1989, the “Certificat of merit”. In 1998, he followed the internship at IRCAM. He co-directed (with Luca Francesconi) Agon- acustica informatica musica, a center of research and production based Milan with which he is still involved in several project as a composer and artistic director, he co-directed Centro Tempo Reale a Firenze and he directed the contemporary music section IRMus at the “Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado” in Milano. His music has been performed in many festivals all the world, in Europe especially in France and Italy, the US and Latin America, Canada and Japan. He has won numerous awards including the Prix Italy 2008 with the radio opera “La Musica Nascosta” and the Award ARTS 2011 (Art, Research, Technology, Science), with the project “La Terza Luce”. Michele Tadini composes for theatre, dance, video, interactive installations, radio, television and film. Among his most famous creations “In a Blink of a Night” for 100 electric guitars, basses, drums, and lead guitar, “Don Giovanni a Venezia, Opera labirinto” Kirkìas, video production, “Distanza di sicurezza” – dance video and “Le nuove, mirabolanti avventure di Walter Ego “in collaboration with Claudio Bisio. In collaboration with Andrée Ruth Shammah and the Teatro Franco Parenti, he has numerous shows to his credit for which he has composed the music. It is important to mention his latest collaboration in the revival of Luciano Berio’s ORFEO project, with the creation of the electronic part and sound direction (Cité de la Musique – Philharmonie de Paris)) His music is published by SZ Sugar. -Rut Schereiner Rut Schereiner was born in Argentina. She obtained a piano diploma in her native country and thus started courses in higher education. Arrived in France she obtained an orchestra conducting and a music analysis diploma at “l’Ecole Normale Supérieure of Paris”. She then graduated from la Sorbonne with master’s degree in the music and musicology of the 20 th century. She also holds a certification in music education and music management (Director) from the Ministry of Culture. With the composer Luis Naon she is the artistic director of “l’ensemble Diagonal”: a flexible group devoted to contemporary works. Her career in Argentine includes engagements with the Bahia Blanca, Mendoza, San Juan and Rio Negro symphonic orchestras and at the Teatro Cervantes and Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires. Rut Schereiner is renowned for having conducted a significant number of premières with groups such as: Movimiento, l’Itinéraire, Regards, Interface, Ensembles du Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, Diagonal, les solistes from Paris Orchestra (France), Vortex, Hic and Nunc, (Geneva), Inercia (Barcelona), Troppi (Buenos Aires), Reims Opera, Artic Philarmonic Chamber Orchestra Norway) and Recherche (Germany). She is currently in charge of the orchestra conducting class in the Regional Conservatoire of Reims, In October 2019 she was named at the Conservatoire National de Musique et de Danse de Paris as professor of introductory orchestra conducting. Rut Schreiner is regularly invited to give performances in her native country in Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires), what’s more, she gives conducting seminars and is in charge of Master Classes in Argentina, France, Spain, Switzerland, Portugal and Chile. Os Ensembles convidados: -Ensemble Recherche The members of Ensemble Recherche have been dedicated to the new and unknown since 1985. The Freiburg-based ensemble has shaped contemporary music and musical history in this period of four decades – with more than of 1.000 premieres and 60 CD recordings. The nine musicians, all internationally-known soloists in the field of contemporary music, are enthusiasts for experimentation and passionately confront musical issues of the present. Bringing their musicality and their individual personalities to the collective, the nine soloists search for answers together, as an ensemble. The considerable energy and personal commitment of each and every member explains why the independent ensemble has been recognised as one of the most important players in the field of contemporary music for four decades. Ensemble Recherche is regularly invited to the most prestigious festivals in Europe, and has made guest appearances at, among others, the Salzburg Festival, the Lucerne Festival, the Elbe Philharmonic Hall, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Venice Biennale, the Donaueschingen Music Festival, the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music, and the Vienna Modern. International concert tours have taken the ensemble to, among other places, Israel, Japan, China, Russia, Mexico, the USA and South America. In Freiburg, the ensemble introduces its audience to the latest developments in contemporary music and new voices of diverse composer personalities in its own series of subscription concerts. Ensemble Recherche won the City of Freiburg’s Reinhold Schneider Prize in 2018. In collaboration with both young and established composers, Ensemble Recherche generates new impetus and greatly influences the development of contemporary music. Composition students at music academies in, among other places, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Linz, Freiburg, Antwerp, Reykjavik and Cambridge have profited from the ensemble musicians’ years of pedagogical experience within the framework of the its long-standing ‘Class Work’ project. The ensemble’s personal links to important composers of the 20th century (particularly with Helmut Lachenmann, Wolfgang Rihm, Salvatore Sciarrino, Gérard Grisey, Hans Abrahamsen and Hans Werner Henze) make its musicians experts in ‘historical performance practice’ in contemporary music of the last century. The ensemble invests deeply in the future and nurtures this spirit of research in the next generation through numerous teaching engagements, such as school workshops, children’s concerts, participative youth projects, and masterclasses. Ensemble Recherche thus advocates a culture of sensitive listening, the celebration of diversity, and a joyful and curious approach to complexity. Ensemble Recherche, together with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, has been headquartered in the Ensemble House Freiburg since 2012. In recent years, the ensemble has gradually rejuvenated itself with younger musicians and a new management team – ideal prerequisites for continuing to shape musical history in the future… -Schallfeld Ensemble Schallfeld is an international ensemble for contemporary music based in Graz. The group sparks the interest of its audience by its vivid virtuosity and refined chamber music sound, paired with interpretations that pay special attention to concert format, creating events that adapt to the specific venue while aiming for a new dimension of listening. The ensemble was founded in 2013 by alumni of Klangforum Wien and composition students of Kunstuniversität Graz. It currently consists of musicians from 8 nationalities and reflects the diversity and different interests of its members in its artistic direction. In the last few years, Schallfeld has been able to establish itself on international stages through exciting programming with a focus on young composers, innovative concert-stagings as well as through the quality of its collective improvisations and innovative use of live-electronics. Schallfeld sees its mission in bringing music of international young composers to Austria and acting as an ambassador for new music production abroad. Besides its own concert cycle in Graz, Schallfeld is regularly guest in festivals in Austria and abroad, such as Wien Modern, impuls Graz, Klangspuren Schwaz, musikprotokoll Graz, Warsaw Autumn, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Ensems (Spain), Romaeuropa (Rome), Afekt (Estonia), Daegu International Contemporary Music Festival (South Korea). In 2016 and 2017 Schallfeld has been selected by the Ministry of Foreign/cultural Affairs as representative of NASOM (New Austrian Sound of Music), a program designed to promote young Austrian artists internationally and, since 2015, is Ulysses- Network Ensemble in Residence. Schallfeld was Ensemble in Residence during the Darmstädter Ferienkursen (2016), Impuls (2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2025), Klangspuren Schwaz (2023), Stanford University (2023), University of California San Diego (2020), Harvard University (2020) and has a fix collaboration with the IEM Graz since 2015. The ensemble is also involved in pedagogical activities and collaborative theatre projects for children and adults. Schallfeld is funded by the municipality of Graz, the federal state of Styria, the Austrian federal Government and receives generous support from the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and the iem (Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics) Graz. Past projects by Schallfeld have also received grants by the EU (Youth in Action), Music Austria (MICA) and KulturKontakt Austria. 2022 Schallfeld Ensemble was awarded the Grand Interpretation Prize of Land Steiermark.

-Ensemble DME

O Ensemble DME foi criado em 2013 no âmbito do Projecto DME, uma iniciativa fundada pelo compositor Jaime Reis para promover a prática musical contemporânea e electroacústica. Tem trabalhado com maestros como Jean-Sébastien Béreau, Pedro Figueiredo, Rita Castro Blanco e Valerio Sannicandro.

O Ensemble DME actuou em numerosas salas de concertos e festivais, dos quais destacamos a Fundação Logos (Gent, Bélgica), a digressão pelo Brasil com mais de uma dezena de concertos, o Auditorio Santa María (Plasencia, Espanha), Casa da Música (Porto), Palácio Foz e Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (Lisboa).

O Ensemble DME tem quatro edições fonográficas, onde se incluem os monográficos de Mario Mary (editora CMMAS) e de João Pedro Oliveira, e as edições com foco nas obras de autores portugueses contemporâneos para violeta, por Aida-Carmen Soanea, e para piano, por Ana Telles.

Ao longo de uma década de actividade, o Ensemble DME tem interpretado obras de compositores como Brian Ferneyhough, Christopher Bochmann, Elliott Carter, Gerhard Stäbler, Gérard Grisey, Jaime Reis, Jean-Sébastien Béreau, Lula Romero e Ludger Brümmer. 

Actualmente, tem orientado o seu trabalho para projectos multidisciplinares, onde se destaca a estreia do espetáculo “Geometrias do Inelidível”, de Jaime Reis, produzido pela EMSCAN em 2022, e o concerto co-organizado com o Instituto Italiano de Cultura de Lisboa, “Esplorazioni”, dedicado à relação entre espaço e som, com o compositor e maestro italiano Valerio Sannicandro, que incluiu estreias de obras suas e do compositor e arquitecto Diogo Alvim.

-Jaime Reis - coordenador da Pós-Graduação em Composição Musical Aplicada [PT] Jaime Reis é um compositor português que estudou com Karlheinz Stockhausen e Emmanuel Nunes, após formação em Composição e Música Electrónica na Universidade de Aveiro com João Pedro Oliveira. É fundador e diretor artístico do Projecto DME e do Lisboa Incomum. A sua música, instrumental e eletroacústica, tem sido apresentada em mais de 20 países. Trabalhou com instituições e ensembles como ZKM, IRCAM, Musikfabrik, The Vienna Acousmatic Project, Aleph Guitar Quartet e Musiques & Recherches. É professor de Composição e Música Eletrónica na Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (ESML). [ENG] Jaime Reis is a Portuguese composer who studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen and with Emmanuel Nunes (his Ph.D. co-advisor), after studying Composition and Electronic Music with J.P.Oliveira. He is the founder and artistic director of Projecto DME and of Lisboa Incomum. His music, both instrumental and electroacoustic, has been performed in over 20 countries. He has worked with institutions/ensembles such as ZKM, IRCAM, Musik Fabrik, The Vienna Acousmatic Project, Aleph Guitar Quartet, Musiques & Recherches. He is a Professor of composition and electronic music at the Lisbon College of Music (ESML). Bio. by Monika Streitová; retrieved from jaimereis.pt; last update: May 2020