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Cândido Lima, Ângela Lopes

Unknown music, unknown musicians, unknown public
Around the city, around sounds of ruined arts erected on debris
In the surrounding spaces of the gardens of a small palace in Rua António Cardoso
From outdoor brass bands to contemporary music of the last century
There, I/ it was/ heard, opened, for months, "windows over the new century" (C.L.)
There, place of destroyed memories here, place of indestructible memories.

Cândido Lima

Cândido Lima began his musical studies in Piano and Composition in Braga, where he played for years as an organist at the Cathedral. He graduated in Piano and Composition in the Lisbon and Oporto Conservatories. After his military service in Bolama Island in Guinea, he studied Philosophy in the University of Braga. Later, Cândido Lima obtained a PhD in Aesthetics in the Université Paris I Panthéon –Sorbonne. He attended several international courses with Nadia Boulanger, Aloys and Alphonse Kontarsky, Gérard Frémy, Stockhausen, Kagel, Ligeti, Pousseur, Boulez and Xenakis among others. He also studied Analysis and Conducting with Gilbert Amy and Michel Tabachnik and attended several electronic and computer music courses at the University of Paris 8 - Vincennes, the University of Paris I-II - Panthéon-Sorbonne, CEMAMu and IRCAM. Having regularly published articles in the press, he has created television and radio series to promote the work of Portuguese contemporary composers. In 1973, Cândido Lima founded "Grupo Música Nova". Pioneer in Portugal of electroacoustic music and computer music, he has written pieces for a diversity of instrumental ensembles, voice, piano and orchestra. He was the first Portuguese composer to use simultaneously, among other media, computer, electroacoustics and orchestra (Oceans, A-mèr-es, etc.). He composed, as memories of the return of the war (Guinea-1968/69), the works HÉAMAÓAMAÉH-grooves.silences (2007) and ODE to Tejo-the return of a war piano (2018/2019). For the 750 years of Viana do Castelo’s Charter (2008/2009) he composed VILLAIANA’s MUSICS-ocean choirs, multimedia work for orchestra, choir, electronics, audiovisual, narrator, rapper and public. Among his last works, is CHANTIER-melodies in stone (2019).

Ângela Lopes has a degree in Composition from ESMAE and UA/Paris VIII University. She collaborates in the technical assistance and sound projection with the groups Música Nova, directed by Cândido Lima and MC47, directed by Virgílio Melo. She participates in the electroacoustic festivals - Música Viva and DME / Electroacoustic Music Days, among other projects. She usually collaborates in the electroacoustic technical realization of several works by the composer Cândido Lima. Ângela Lopes composes works for diverse formations presented in Portugal and abroad. She composed for theater and for electroacoustic theater. She has several scores and works published / edited. She is currently a composer published by Centro de Investigação & Informação da Música Portuguesa (MIC.pt). She is a member of Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores (SPA). Ângela Lopes is a professor of Analysis, Composition and Organology. She is President of the Administrative Direction of Academia de Música de Santa Maria da Feira, as well as an element of Pedagogical Direction. Ângela Lopes has recent premieres, commissioned by the DME/Lisboa Incomum festival, the work Reciclo-Recirculos - em forma de sanza, or the SÍNTESE - Grupo de Música Contemporânea, the work DARGUA - de poemas helénicos. The release of a DVD by DuoContracello is under preparation with her work E(H)LLE(M) - sete momentos em forma de trança. At the moment, she is working on a new work for viola and electronic, commissioned by Associação Arte no Tempo.

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