A curated list of past performances and premieres.
Concerts at the Castle — Sospiro — A Journey Through Portuguese Fado🗓 September 19, 8:00 PM📍 Throne Room, Miramare Castle, Trieste, ItalyProgram:• Works by Manuel Garcia, José Francisco, Paulo Bastos (Cinco canções de Miguel Torga and La Courbe de tes yeux), Gabriel Fauré, António Fragoso, Francisco de Lacerda, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Waldemar Henrique, Carlos Guastavino - Dora Rodrigues · soprano, Alice Brandãoo · guitar
"Pequenas histórias para grandes instrumentos" by Paulo Bastos: "The composer must go all out when writing for young children" Read on Da Capo: https://www.dacapo.pt/article/pequenas-historias-para-grandes-instrumentos-de-paulo-bastos-1
Piano, Kla-Vier Duo, Patrícia Ventura and Sónia Amaral - "From the Atlantic to the Carpathians"
“Small Stories for Big Instruments” by composer Paulo Bastos is a very special album. These works were specifically written for children to introduce crucial musical concepts from an early age. It features music designed to value the work of both teachers and students in music learning during the first cycle of basic education. 9 instruments and 72 stories! Everything was recorded by final-year students at ESMAE. It is a dream project that we are pleased to present on the 19th at the Calouste Gulbenkian Music Conservatory in Braga. In addition to the album, the sheet music will also be available on Artway Editions at shop.artway.pt. (Artway Information)
A brand new album designed to inspire music students and teachers through creative storytelling
"Pequenas Histórias para Grandes Instrumentos” is coming. (Artway Records) Paulo Bastos fulfills a lifelong dream in his new monographic disc dedicated to childhood, with a great vision for the future. “Pequenas Histórias para Grandes Instrumentos” Release Date: 19/06/2026 Label: Artway Catalogue number: AWR2026024 UPC: 5600384984894 Support: Ministério da Cultura, Juventude e Desporto Direção Geral das Artes. ESMAE +info: https://shop.artway.pt/ (Artway Editions) (Artway Records)
Pontes sonoras: a concert featuring two saxophonists - Romeu Costa and Jesús Núñez
This is the third and last volume of the "Adestro" Trilogy, an integral recording of Portuguese Music for the left-handed piano, all performed by André Roque Cardoso.
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)
Art'Ventus Quintet: Ana Maria Ribeiro, flute; Tiago Coimbra, oboe; Horácio Ferreira, clarinet; Nuno Vaz, horn; and Raquel Saraiva, bassoon
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.
FADO(S) | (...) soft as a bird, flying | With Daniela Anjo, flute, Gileno Santana, trumpet, Sónia Amaral, piano and live electronics, Paulo Bastos
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...
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
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.