Collaborations
Relevant live collaborations with diverse artists I had the pleasure to work with over the years.
Orquestra Antiga
An interesting collaboration with members of Gambuzinos, Mediaevus Chorus, Teatro em Caixa, as well as guests João Soares e Susana Castro Santos. This ensemble is developing a repertoire comprised of musical pieces from the medieval and renaissance ages.
This was the first concert of this large ensemble concieved and coordenated by Diogo Bastos Pinho from Teatro em Caixa, a very promising start for this interesting project!
Efren Lopez Trio
This was one of the most interesting and pleasurable collaborations of my musical career so far! Playing with master musicians such as Efren Lopez and Miriam Encinas was a great honor, especially in a context where we shared our compositions and put together a diverse concert repertoire!
We did a couple of shows in 2017, in Valencia and Teruel, Spain, that were magical! My cam managed to record the first one, the quality isn't great but it's enough to get the picture!
ALPAD
ALPAD stands for Portuguese-Persian Association. Its activities focus on tightening the relationship between Portugal and Iran by organizing diverse cultural activities.
Since I'm one of the very few musicians in Portugal that have a deep interest for persian classical music, a collaboration was very much in order!
So in early 2017 I had the pleasure to play, both accompanying poetry and solo, performing pieces from famous composers on the persian santur, in a poetry and music evening organized by ALPAD. I hope I'll have video footage to show soon!
If you wish to follow ALPAD's activities you can follow them on facebook.
Ormuz
And it was great in many aspects! Besides the magical acoustic of the church, we chose a very diverse program, that encompassed original music, traditional pieces from the middle east and Africa, improvisations, classical and early music, you name it! Of course it had a very experimental character to it, due to the instruments we played, and certain compromises had to be made in so that the arrangements would work, but I think we did a good job!
Here's "Parfum de Gitane" in this format, a song by Anouar Brahem.
aCordaPele
aCordaPele is a duo from Porto, consisting of Pedro Viana on several string instruments and Sérgio Henrique on percussion. I've always been a fan of Pedros' compositions so when they invited me for one of their live shows I tried to make some interesting arrangements for the songs I played with them.
This went along in October 2012 at Festival Manobras no Porto and the name of the song is "Escadas das Mentiras". The arrangement I composed for this song has the particularity of being one of the very few times I configured my persian santur to play with key modulations, to fit the song well. And I think it worked very well, check it out for yourselves!
Video quality isn't any good but the audio is worth it!
