Artistic Activity
Besides my work as free-lancer, in collaboration with ensembles as Segréis de Lisboa, Vozes Alfonsinas, Capela Real, Divino Sospiro and Coro Gulbenkian, I work regularly with the following ensembles:
A Imagem da MelancoliaThe recorder consort A Imagem da Melancolia (The Image of Melancholy) was founded in december 2002 and is constituted by 5 musicians graduated from the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa in the class of prof. Pedro Couto Soares. This ensemble focus its attention on the polyphonic repertoire written between 1400 and 1700, devoting special attention to the musical, literary and iconographical sources of the same period in order to build an interpretational concept. The recorders used are copies of historical instruments crafted by Luca de Paolis, Monika Musch, Tom Prescott and Peter van der Poel. A Imagem da Melancolia has given concerts in Portugal (Porto, Loulé, Tomar, and Lisbon) and was one of the selected groups to play in the FRINGE concerts of the 2004 Utrecht's Early Music Festival (Holland).
L'Universo SommersoFounded and directed by Pedro Sousa Silva, L’Universo Sommerso, is an ensemble with a simple intention: the interpretation o music form the 16th and 17th centuries within historical frameworks. The group was borne in 2001 and has a variable geometry, in order to be able to perform several types of programs. All of its elements are musicians specialized in the practice of baroque music in period instruments.
T(ri)u es PetrusThe three Pedros (Pedro Couto Soares, Pedro Castro, Pedro Sousa Silva) have crossed in 1994 when Pedro Castro and Pedro Sousa Silva where students of Pedro Couto Soares at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa. The group is founded in 2000 and intends to exploit the lesser conventional repertoire for this formation, namely the contemporary music and the renaissance music of speculative character. T(ri)u es Petrus recorded a piece by Robertus de Anglia that was issued in a cd that accompanied the 6th number of the Águas Furtadas magazine.
