Events
Upcoming performances and premieres
Round table discussion: '25 anos Curso de Composição'
Premiere of the winning works from the competition | Opening (Sofia Sousa Rocha) | Director, Jorge Faria | Moderator, Elisa Lessa, Associate Professor at the University of Minho, Researcher at the Centre for Humanistic Studies (CEHUM) | Round table with Ana Seara, Jorge Ramos, Paulo Bastos and Sérgio Azevedo | Score presentation ceremony (João Vidinha representing Sherzo Editions and Arpejo Editora + Jorge Faria) | Winners of the 1st National Composition Competition, Diogo Almeida - XXI, Piano Solo, Iara Lamego - Kinda L1ke This, Quartet
CD release ‘Histórias de uma Flauta' featuring my works ‘Pequenas histórias de uma Flauta’ and ‘Cinco quadros para Alice’
Marina Camponês and Diana Botelho Vieira presented their album “Histórias para uma Flauta” (Stories for a Flute) with a launch concert on 6 November at the Adelina Caravana Auditorium, Calouste Gulbenkian Music Conservatory in Braga. On the album ‘Histórias para uma Flauta’ (Artway Editions), the flute and new Portuguese music take centre stage. Flutist Marina Camponês and pianist Diana Botelho Vieira joined forces to fill a gap in the teaching of the instrument, where contemporary works by Portuguese composers are rare for the various levels of education. This led to the creation of Histórias para uma Flauta, a project that involved commissioning new compositions, recording them and making a double album and the sheet music available to all flute students and teachers. | (text by António José Ferreira)
Premiere of ‘Seven sketches’ for wind quintet by the Art'ventus Quintet at the Ciclo de Música de Câmara de Braga
Art'Ventus Quintet: Ana Maria Ribeiro, flute; Tiago Coimbra, oboe; Horácio Ferreira, clarinet; Nuno Vaz, horn; and Raquel Saraiva, bassoon
Monographic concerts by Paulo Bastos in Japan
The monographic concerts composed by Paulo Bastos mark a unique moment of cultural and artistic exchange, combining Portuguese musical tradition with Japanese interpretative richness. Premiere of the following works by Paulo Bastos composed in 2025: “about(va)”, “about CP ‘Frustration’, 'Ascent”, “Kind of (...)”, 'Por onde vais? The first concert took place at the Salon de Musica in Tokyo on 9 September 2025; the second concert was on 13 September 2025, in the Noble Hall of Morioka City Hall, Iwate Prefecture.
Monographic concert commented by Paulo Bastos at Associação Cultural Macaréu
FADO(S) | (...) soft as a bird, flying | With Daniela Anjo, flute, Gileno Santana, trumpet, Sónia Amaral, piano and live electronics, Paulo Bastos
Monographic concert commented by Paulo Bastos at Clube dos Galitos
FADO(S) | (...) soft as a bird, flying | With Daniela Anjo, flute, Gileno Santana, trumpet, Sónia Amaral, piano and live electronics, Paulo Bastos
'Xénia' for euphonium and vibraphone in Barcelona
Euphonium, Ricardo Antão and vibraphone, Jonathan Silva | ITEC
'Cinco quadros para Alice' at St. Jame's Church, Sussex Gardens
Diogo Ferreira, flute and piano, Joana Resende | 'Cinco quadros para Alice' 1. Down, down, down 2. White Rabbit 3. Who am I then? 4. Do cats eat bats? 5. Off with her head!
A palavra e a Música
A Palavra e a música - Meeting with Paulo Bastos Moderator: Elisa Lessa from the University of Minho “Immersive Experience (WOW)” | Premiere of “Quié amigo, quié de Brága!”, electroacoustic music on support
Electroacoustic music on support Festival Imersivo - DME
This electroacoustic work proposes a psychedelic approach that immerses the listener in a sound spectrum of indefinitions, distortions, and nonsense elements. It presents the sound perception of illusory things. Everything is transformed and organised into a permanent framework of ‘Inter-Dream’. ‘Light and Heat’, inspired by a text by Manuel Bernardes, addresses, in a mixture of voices (generated by artificial intelligence) in various languages, the question of example as a basic and essential condition of the master before the disciple.
‘La courbe de tes yeux’ for voice and guitar
L’Effetto Ensemble – Dora Rodrigues, soprano, Rui Gama, guitar - Autumn Festivals CCCI - Complexo das Ciências de Comunicação e Imagem (DECA)
‘Íris-abandono...’ for Vibraphone (USA)
Vibraphone, Jonathan Silva Jonathan Silva's tour of the United States of America 3 November - Kitt School of Music, North Arizona University, Flagstaff 4 November - School of Music, Dance and Theatre, Arizona State University, Tempe 12 November - NYU Steinhardt, New York 18 November - University of Massachusetts Amherst
'Cinco canções de Miguel Torga' for voice and guitar
Vocals, Maria Ermida, Guitar, Eurico Pereira - Hora do Baco
"Cinco quadros para Alice" and "Indizível" for flute and piano
Flute, Diogo Ferreira, Piano, Joana Resende - Do Miradouro
‘Íris-abandono...’ for Vibraphone
Vibraphone, Jonathan Silva, Comments, Nuno Jacinto, Percussion Recital, Music in the Family
‘Cinco quadros para Alice’ for flute and piano
La Folie Duo, Flute, Daniela Anjo, Piano, Sónia Amaral CIMa International Music Festival
'Cinco canções de Miguel Torga' and 'La courbe de tes yeux'
Poems by Miguel Torga and Paul Eluard, for voice and guitar, L'Effetto Ensemble - Vocals, Dora Rodrigues - Guitar, Rui Gama - XXII Festival Internazionale di Chitarra
'Bucolicae' for violin, cello and piano four hands
Piano, Duo Jost Costa (Yseult Jost and Domingos Costa), Violin, Anne Mercier, Cello, Sébastien Paul 14th Percursos da Música Festival
‘Branca rosa brava’ for voice, string quartet, alto saxophone and accordion (Cuba)
Síntese - Contemporary Music Group, under the artistic direction of Jan Wierzba 17th SÍNTESE FESTIVAL 100 years since the birth of Eugénio de Andrade - poem ‘Escrita da Terra’ Commissioned by Síntese Gmc with support from the Direção Geral das Artes 11/05 | Museo Nacional de la Música 12/05 | Casa del Alba 14/05 | Sala Argeliers León 15/05 | Sociedad José Martí 16/05 | Teatro del Museo de Bellas
Premiere of 'Xénia' for euphonium and vibraphone
Premiere of 'Xénia' for euphonium and vibraphone NoMad Duo, Ricerdo Antão and Jonathan Silva, 'Êxodo'
‘Branca rosa brava’ for voice, string quartet, alto saxophone and accordion
Síntese - Contemporary Music Group, under the artistic direction of Jan Wierzba 17th SÍNTESE FESTIVAL 100 years since the birth of Eugénio de Andrade - poem ‘Escrita da Terra’ Commissioned by Síntese Gmc with support from the Direção Geral das Artes
'Íris-abandono…' for vibraphone in Antena 2
Jonathan Silva, vibraphone
'Íris-abandono…' for vibraphone in Teatro Rivoli
Jonathan Silva, vibraphone
“Sou já do que fui” for piano four hands (Reutlingen, Germany)
Piano, Duo Jost Costa (Yseult Jost, Domingos Costa) New music – alla ungherese Works by Paulo Bastos, Peter Eötvös, Michael Frank Hagemann, György Kurtág, Wolfgang Rihm, Marco Stroppa, Caspar Johannes Walter, as well as world premieres by Manuel Durão and Fredrik Zeller
'Sou já do que fui' for piano four hands (USA)
Piano, Kla-Vier Duo, Patrícia Ventura and Sónia Amaral, New Year's Concert promoted by the Consulate General of Portugal in Newark, Sport Clube Português Photo by Vera Reis
Premiere of 'Three 4 two' for euphonium and vibraphone
NoMad Duo, Ricardo Antão and Jonathan Silva - Songs of a Wayfarer, Autumn Festivals 2023 Aveiro University
Premiere of ‘Branca rosa brava’ for voice, string quartet, alto saxophone and accordion
Síntese - Contemporary Music Group, under the artistic direction of Jan Wierzba 17th SÍNTESE FESTIVAL 100 years since the birth of Eugénio de Andrade - poem ‘Escrita da Terra’ Commissioned by Síntese Gmc with support from the Direção Geral das Artes
Release of the CD 'Caprichos with ´Cinco canções de Miguel Torga' and 'La courbe de tes yeux' for voice and guitar (Italy)
Poems by Miguel Torga and Paul Eluard, for voice and guitar, L'Effetto Ensemble - Vocals, Dora Rodrigues - Guitar, Rui Gama - 1Festival delle due Città 2023
Release of the CD 'Caprichos with ´Cinco canções de Miguel Torga' and 'La courbe de tes yeux' for voice and guitar (France)
Poems by Miguel Torga and Paul Eluard, for voice and guitar, L'Effetto Ensemble - Vocals, Dora Rodrigues - Guitar, Rui Gama - 17ème Festival 2023 Guitares en Picardie
'Sou já do que fui' for piano four hands (London)
Piano, Kla-Vier Duo, Patrícia Ventura and Sónia Amaral, Lunchtime Recital
Premiere of ‘Cinco canções de Miguel Torga’ and ‘La courbe de ter yeux’ (Spain)
Poems by MIguel Torga and Paul Eluard, for voice and guitar, L'effetto Ensemble - Vocals, Dora Rodrigues - Guitar, Rui Gama, Festival Internacional de Música y Artes Escénicas, Fundación Casa Museo Andrés Segovia
Lecture entitled 'O Curso de Composição - Contributo para a geração XXI at ESML
Synopsis: "The Composition Course at the Calouste Gulbenkian Music Conservatory in Braga began in 2000, becoming the first secondary-level course in this field in Portugal. The consistent good results in the technical and artistic preparation of these students have made this course a benchmark in the field of composition in Portugal, in terms of training young composers. Twenty-three years on, it has become a school, keeping alive the dream of opening new paths for new Portuguese composers." https://musiced.esml.ipl.pt/annual-meeting
Release and Concert of the CD Lost Travellers with ´Estudos irreflexivos' for soprano saxophone and vibraphone
Kinetix Duo, soprano saxophone, Fernando Ramos, vibraphone, Jeffery Davis
Release of the CD Percussion Spheres with 'Íris-abandono...' for vibraphone - (New Zeland)
Justin DeHart, vibraphone, Rattle Records, The album centers a multi-movement vibraphone solo by Paulo Bastos (Portugal) and is bookended by percussion and electronic works by international composers, Hyunsuk Jun (Korea, Andrew Staniland (Canada), and Nuno Costa (Portugal)
Música de Invenção e Pesquisa · Na 1.ª Pessoa com Paulo Bastos
Radio Antena 2/RTP
´Numbers´, electroacoustic music in 'Geografoa dos Sons'
The Geography of Sound, Radio programme on Antena 2 by Luís Tinoco
MUBA Paulo Bastos Composition Workshop - Tallinn College of Music and Ballet
Workshop of Composition Composing, just musical ideas, any instruments, ways of producing sound MUBA Big Chamber Hall
Teacher Training - O Curso de Composição de Braga, Conservatório de Música Calouste Gulbenkian de Braga (Germany)
Teacher Training in Tübingen Musikschule
Monographic concert featuring works by Paulo Bastos (Germany)
Monographic concert featuring works by Paulo Bastos: ‘Sete miniaturas’ for oboe * “Flutz”, electroacoustic music on support * “Flutzcla”, electroacoustic music on support * “Sou ja do que fui” for piano four hands “em palavra a noite”, for soprano and piano * * world premiere Razvan Marin Gheorghiu · oboe Duo Jost Costa · piano for four hands Andrea Conangla - soprano Domingos Soares Costa · piano
Communication at the Minho University - 'Compositions for guitar – a personal reflection on my work'
Compositions for guitar – a personal reflection on my work, I Congresso Guitarrístico de Braga
'Íris-abandono…' for vibraphone (New Zeland)
Vibrafone, Justin DeHart World New Music Days ISCM ACL 2022 University of Canterbury’s New Music Central Concert Series
'Ad-sum' for piano solo in Lisboa Incomum
João Tiago Magalhães, piano
'Estudos irreflexivos' for soprano saxophone and vibraphone (La Palma)
Kinetix Duo, Fernando Ramos and Jeffery Davis, II Encuentro Internacional de Saxofon de La Palma
‘Cinco Canções de Miguel Torga’ for voice and guitar orchestra
Carlos Guilherme, Orquestra de Cordas dedilhadas do Minho, conducted by Rui Gama
'Sou já do que fui' for piano four hands
Piano, Kla-Vier Duo, Patrícia Ventura and Sónia Amaral, Festival Música d´Ponte
Premiere of 'Ad-sum' for piano solo
João Tiago Magalhães, piano, Didactic concerts
'Estudos irreflexivos' for soprano saxophone and vibraphone
Kinetix Duo, Fernando Ramos and Jeffery Davis Antena 2 Concerts
Communication at the Minho University - 'New paths for the 21st century – The Braga School of Composition'
Colloquium on Music Education Issues (via Zoom), organised by the Department of Music, ELACH, University of Minho, Braga
Online chat with Paulo Bastos
Classical Guitar Methods Online conversations with Aires Pinheiro, Maria Correia, Paulo Bastos and Adolfo Mendes
Release of the CD 'Aeternum' with my "Missae Breves'
Diogo Zão, Organ, Luís Alves, Oboe, Pequenos Cantores de Esposende, Choir, Helena Venda Lima,
'Sou já do que fui’ for piano four hands (South Africa)
Piano, Duo Jost Costa, Yseult Jost & Domingos Costa
Premiere of 'Annuntiatio' for wind and percussion orchestra
Youth Orchestra of the University of Minho, Conducted by Vítor Matos, Commissioned by Município de Braga
'Sou já do que fui’ for piano four hands in Casa da Música
Piano, Duo Jost Costa, Yseult Jost & Domingos Costa
Premiere of "Vinte e quatro" for twenty four guitars orchestra (Brazil)
Camerata de Violões Guri Santa Marcelina Conducted by Thales Vieira Maestre
Em foco - Paulo Bastos
Portuguese Music Research & Information Centre
'Sou já do que fui´for piano four hands (Gelsenkirchen, Germany)
Piano, Duo Jost Costa, Yseult Jost & Domingos Costa, Transmusica
Premiere of 'Bucolicae' for violin, cello and piano four hands (France)
Piano, Duo Jost Costa, Yseult Jost and Domingos Costa, Violin, Anne Mercier Cello, Sébastien Paul, Commissioned by Le Printemps de l’Europe
'Adsum' for piano four hands in Síntese - Contemporary music cycle in Guarda
Piano, Kla-Vier Duo, Patrícia Ventura and Sónia Amaral, XIII Síntese - Contemporary music cycle in Guarda
Premiere of ‘Sou já do que fui’ for piano four hands (Italy)
Piano, Duo Jost Costa, Yseult Jost and Domingos Costa
'Prelude to a rock and fugue' for piano four hands
Piano, Kla-Vier Duo, Patrícia Ventura and Sónia Amaral
Premiere of 'Prelude to a rock and fugue'
Piano, Kla-Vier Duo, Patrícia Ventura and Sónia Amaral
Premiere of ‘Do not fit’ for violin and piano (France)
Doppio Ensemble, Violin, Evandra Gonçalves, Piano, Ana Queirós
Premiere of ‘For Alice again’ for alto and tenor saxophone, violin, cello, piano, narration
Alto and tenor saxophone, Romeu Costa, violin, Sara Silva, cello, Teresa Soares piano, Sónia Amaral, narration, Nívea Pinheiro - Eurosax 2017
Premiere of ‘Missa Brevis’ for organ, oboe and children's choir
Diogo Zão, Organ, Sara Amorim, Oboe, Pequenos Cantores de Esposende, Choir, Helena Venda Lima, Conductor, V Braga Organ Festival, Commissioned by Pequenos Cantores de Esposende
Premiere of ‘Cinco Canções de Miguel Torga’ for voice and guitars orchestra
Mário João Alves, Orquestra de Cordas dedilhadas do Minho, conducted by Rui Gama
Premiere of ‘Pelo aroma das sílabas’ children's choir, piano, among others
Poems by Miguel Torga, Sidónio Muralha, Eugénio de Andrade, Alice Vieira, António Botto, Manuel António Pina and Luísa Ducla Soares, Conducted by Margarida Reis, Commissioned by APEM
‘O Elefante e a Pulga’ for choir and piano
Coro Voximix E VoxOn, Composition Week at the Lisbon School of Music, conducted by Armanda Patricio
‘Canção de Declínio nº1’ for voice and guitar
L'Effetto Ensemble, Dora Rodrigues and Rui Gama 27ª Temporada Música São Roque
Recording of ‘Pelo aroma das sílabas’ children's choir, piano, among others
Poems by Miguel Torga, Sidónio Muralha, Eugénio de Andrade, Alice Vieira, António Botto, Manuel António Pina and Luísa Ducla Soares Flute, Lígia Silva, Double bass, Slawomir Marzec, Viola, Eugénia Lima, Bassoon, Liliana Reis, Glockenspiel, Sara Amorim, Coro de Pequenos Cantores de Esposende, Piano, Diogo Zão, Conductor, Helena Venda Lima (27/03/2015)
Premiere of ‘Urban walk’ for two marimbas
IV International Chamber Music Competition ‘Cidade de Alcobaça’, Spanish duo Face Two Phase (first prize in the Junior category)
Concert and release of ‘Três poemas de Natal’ for choir, three a cappella voices
CPCE CD ‘É tempo de Natal'
Recording of the third song from ‘Cinco Indícios de ouro’ for soprano and guitar, based on poems by Mário Sá-Carneiro
Performed by: L'Effetto Ensemble, Dora Rodrigues and Rui Gama
Recording of 'Três poemas de Natal' for choir, three a cappella voices
Photo with Helena Venda Lima Pequenos Cantores de Esposende
Premiere of ‘Meu madrigal de madrugada’ for flute, harp, piano and string orchestra
Flute, Luciana Silva, harp, Teresa Conceição, piano, Maria do Céu Camposinhos, and Companhia da Música String Orchestra, conducted by Luís Machado
Premiere of ‘A Requiem to the Music Teacher’ for Mandolin Orchestra
Portuguese Guitar and Mandolin Orchestra, OPGB presentation concert to the Municipality of Gondomar, Conductor, Juan Carlos Munoz, Commissioned by Portuguese Guitar and Mandolin Orchestra, OPGB
‘Adsum’ for piano four hands in CCB
Duo Pianíssimo, Inês Andrade and Marta Menezes
Workshop on ‘Composition techniques and their application in instrumental writing’ and respective final concert
On-the-job training
A conversation about music, analysis and composition'
Paulo Bastos as guest speaker with Ana Pereira do Vale from the School of Sciences of the University of Minho in partnership with FNAC Braga, moderated by Paula Nogueira
Excerpt from interview - ‘we asked Paulo Bastos’
the APEM Newsletter (06 and 07/2013)
Premiere of ‘six2one’ for one piano and six pianists
Premiere of ‘six2one’ for one piano and six pianists Photo by Sara Braga Simões
Music and Cinema – 'The Piano', film by Jane Campion and music by Michael Nyman
Comments by Paulo Bastos, moderated by Elisa Lessa
Premiere of ‘Like a bandoneón’ for Saxophone Quartet
QuadQuartet
Participation as guest composer in the Round Table at the National Meeting of APEM with the theme - Music for Children/Improvisation and Composition in Music Education, Article 'Que músicas infantis?'
APEM Magazine - Music for Children/Improvisation and Composition in Music Education
Premiere of 'Sanulu ba tolu' for Orchestra
Instrumental Ensemble of Companhia da Música, conducted by Toby Hoffman, Commissioned by University of Minho – Music Department
“ab origine” for piano
Piano, Domingos Costa Concert series “Pianistas Bracarenses”
Release of ‘17 Peças para Guitarra’
Release of Sheet music and CD with José Pina, Rui Gama and Sérgio Azevedo, moderated by Elisa Lessa
Lecture entitled 'A teoria das notas atractivas - Elementos metodológicos e aplicação analítica nas Seis Peças, op. 19 de Arnold Schoenberg'
Seminars | Conferences | Workshops 2007/2008 ‘Music Analysis and Music History’ cycle
Premiere of ‘Ultima ratio’ for string orchestra
Jovem Orquestra do Porto Conducted by António Sérgio, European Heritage Days, Commissioned by Município de Vila Pouca de Aguiar
Premiere of ‘33.4’ for electroacoustic music on support
Commissioned by Evento “in_bloc”
Premiere of ’ab origine’ for piano
Luís Serdoura, 3rd Contemporary Art Conference Porto ’96
Paulo Bastos, Photography, Virgilio Ferreira
About Premiere of ’ab origine’ for piano - Newspaper: O Público
Premiere of ‘Mokuso’ for 2 pianos, flute, bass flute, clarinet and bass clarinet
18th Encontros de Música Contemporânea da Gulbenkian, Commissioned by Grupo Música Nova