Pedro Carneiro · © Nuno Ferreira Santos
WNMD 2025 · CONCERT NO. 3
31-05-2025 · 16h00
Casa da Música – Sala 2, Porto
BILHETEIRA CDM
SOND'AR-TE ELECTRIC ENSEMBLE
Pedro Carneiro · conductor
AGATA ZEMLA (Poland, 1994) YCA
To bee or not to bee? (2021), 12’
ISCM Polish Section submission
DMITRI KOURLIANDSKI (Russia, 1976)
Bagatelle (2019), 5'
KRISTS AUZNIEKS (Latvia, 1992) YCA
Turning the Wheel (2022), 12'
ISCM Latvian Section submission
PATRÍCIA SUCENA ALMEIDA (Portugal, 1972)
Instabile Tempus (2016), 13'
RUI PENHA (Portugal, 1981)
Pendulum (2012), 8'
TATJANA KOZLOVA JOHANNES (Estonia, 1977)
Ainult õhk (Just Air) (2023), 12'
ISCM Estonian Section submission
YCA · Young Composers Award candidate
SOND'AR-TE ELECTRIC ENSEMBLE
Pedro Carneiro · maestro
Sílvia Cancela · flauta
Nuno Pinto · clarinete
Vítor Vieira · violino
Jorge Alves · viola
Luís André Ferreira · violoncelo
João Casimiro de Almeida · piano
João Dias · percussão
[ENG]
Pedro Carneiro conducts the Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble in a concert with works by the Portuguese composers Patrícia Sucena de Almeida and Rui Penha. But it is also a journey to the East of Europe with works from Poland, Russia, and Latvia: To bee or not to bee?, a piece by the composer Agata Zemla, who is also a biologist; Bagatelle, for eight musicians (with percussion and double bass) by the Russian composer Dmitri Kourliandski; Turning the Wheel, by the award-winning Latvian composer Krists Auznieks; and a recent piece by the Estonian composer Tatjana Kozlova Johannes, Just Air, for piano and ensemble.
[PT]
O maestro Pedro Carneiro dirige o Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble, num concerto em que ouviremos obras dos compositores portugueses Patrícia Sucena de Almeida e Rui Penha. Mas viajamos também para leste, com obras de criadores da Polónia, Rússia e Letónia: To bee or not to bee?, uma peça de uma compositora que é também bióloga, Agata Zemla. Bagatelle, para oito instrumentistas (com percussão e contrabaixo) do compositor russo Dmitri Kourliandski. Turning the wheel, do premiado compositor letão Krists Auznieks. E ainda uma peça recente da estoniana Tatjana Kozlova Johannes, Just Air, para ensemble e piano.
PROGRAMME NOTES
AGATA ZEMLA (Poland, 1994) YCA
To bee or not to bee? (2021), for flute, clarinet, viola, cello and live electronics
ISCM Polish Section submission
The piece reflects bees and their social structures as well as the cycle of their life, including the stages of the queen, workers, and drones. To bee or not to bee? aims to make the audience think about these small animals, insects, that we cannot live without on the planet Earth. Inspiration for this piece also encompasses the book by Maja Lunde – History of the Bees. The piece’s live electronics includes the electric sounds of bees. The work’s premiere occurred at the Musica Electronica Nova Festival in May 2023, in Wrocław (Poland).
KRISTS AUZNIEKS (Latvia, 1992) YCA
Turning the Wheel (2022), for chamber ensemble
ISCM Latvian Section submission
In the Deer Park, the highest Wheel has been set in motion. It cannot be turned back. At that hour, at that moment, in an instant of time, the proclamation reached the world, and the Ten-Thousand World Systems shook and shook again. An immeasurable splendor was seen throughout the world, surpassing the splendor of all the gods.
TATJANA KOZLOVA JOHANNES (Estonia, 1977)
Ainult õhk (Just Air) (2023), for piano and ensemble
ISCM Latvian Section submission
The work is inspired by an image, one part of which is “just air” – something neutral, cold, mystically cosmic, and perfectly empty. The other part is a “blower” or someone who “breathes life into” embodying something inevitably human – fragile, lonely, warm and vulnerable. It is not clear what the contact points between the “blower” and “air” are, or whether they are part of the same reality.