WNMD 2025 · CONCERT 20
Into the Light / Para a luz
05-06-2025 · 18h00
São Luiz Teatro Municipal, Sala Bernardo Sassetti
Lisbon
Bilheteira · Box Office (São Luiz)
Sond’Ar-te Trio
SOND’AR-TE TRIO
Vítor Vieira · violin
Filipe Quaresma · cello
Elsa Silva · piano
DIANA ANDRASHENKO (Ukraine, 2001) YCA
Quadro sobre uma noite estrelada (2023), 7’
LENKA NOVOSEDLÍKOVÁ (Slovakia, 1989)
VPD (2024), 10’
ISCM Slovak Section submission
SARA CARVALHO (Portugal, 1970)
sobre a areia o tempo poisa (2016), 9’
ASHLEY JOHN LONG (Wales, 1986)
Beyond the Haze of Winter's Edge (2020), 5’
ISCM Welsh Section submission
GONÇALO GATO (Portugal, 1979)
Elementos (2018), 10’
ISCM Portuguese Section submission
JOSÉ LUIS PERDIGÓN DE PAZ (Spain, 1990) YCA
torque (2019), 14’
ISCM Spanish Section submission
YCA · ISCM Young Composers Award candidate
[ENG]
The Sond’Ar-te Trio – featuring Vítor Vieira (violin), Filipe Quaresma (cello), and Elsa Silva (piano), all members of the Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble, founded in 2007 – presents a programme featuring works proposed by various sections of the International Society for Contemporary Music for the World New Music Days. These works reflect the diverse aesthetic approaches found in today’s music: VPD by Lenka Novosedlíková, Beyond the Haze of Winter’s Edge by Ashley John Long, Elementos by Gonçalo Gato, and Torque by José Luis Perdigón De Paz.
Complementing these works, and also highlighting distinct musical aesthetics, the concert includes compositions by two women composers currently active in Portugal and from different generations: Sara Carvalho and Diana Andrashenko.
Diana Andrashenko, who studied composition at ESMAE, represents her home country Ukraine in this edition of the World New Music Days.
All three musicians who form this trio, born out of the Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble, pursue distinguished solo careers and work in close collaboration with composers, having premiered dozens of new works. Their public recognition is well established, making them stand out in the current landscape of contemporary music.
[PT]
O Sond'Ar-te Trio, Vítor Vieira (violino), Filipe Quaresma (violoncelo) e Elsa Silva (piano), músicos do Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble fundado em 2007 – apresenta um programa que inclui propostas de diferentes secções da Sociedade Internacional de Música Contemporânea para o World New Music Days que revelam difenciadas estéticas da música dos dias de hoje: VPD de Lenka Novosedlíková, Beyond the Haze of Winter's Edge de Ashley John Long, Elementos de Gonçalo Gato e Torque de José Luis Perdigón De Paz. De forma complementar e dando também a ouvir estéticas muito distintas, este concerto inclui ainda obras de duas compositoras activas em Portugal e de gerações distintas: Sara Carvalho e Diana Andrashenko. Diana Andrashenko, formada em composição na ESMAE, representa neste Festival World New Music Days o seu país natal, a Ucrânia.
Ambos os três músicos que integram este trio nascido do Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble, desenvolvem carreiras a solo num estreito trabalho de colaboração com compositores tendo estreado dezenas de obras. O reconhecimento público do seu trabalho é notório o que permite destacá-los no panorama actual da música contemporânea.
PROGRAMME NOTES
DIANA ANDRASHENKO (Ukraine, 2001) YCA
Quadro sobre uma noite estrelada (2023)
— Quadro sobre uma noite estrelada [Picture of a Starry Night] comes from the personal interest and search of connection music and painting, using the latter both as an inspiration and a creative process basis. This composition portrays A Starry Night from Van Gogh, which is divided into three main planes corresponding to the three pieces’ sections – Night Sky, Isolated Cypress and Silent Earth. The first shows the sky in movement, spontaneous, turbulent and deep. The second consists of an isolated element that serves as a connection between the sky and the earth, the cypress tree that aims for the cosmic abyss. The last one represents the sleeping village, symbolising nostalgia, peace and serenity.
LENKA NOVOSEDLÍKOVÁ (Slovakia, 1989)
VPD (2024)
ISCM Slovak Section submission
— VPD was composed in 2021, initially for viola, and revised in 2024 for the Prague Philharmonie musicians (Slovak Composers profile concert). The piece involves mixed rhythmical structures. Its middle part is a sound and calm space; at the end, it returns to rhythmically tense music.
SARA CARVALHO (Portugal, 1970)
sobre a areia o tempo poisa (2016)
— sobre a areia o tempo poisa [over the sands time stands still] was written in 2016, and it was commissioned by the 38th International Music Festival Póvoa do Varzim. The title of the piece is taken from Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen’s poem Fundo do Mar (Bottom of the Sea) found in her book Poesia I (Poetry I). As suggested in Sophia’s poem, my musical material also works from opposites that cohabit within the same space, where everything is as much divided as it is intertwined, like a web. Thus, like in a dream, the events in my piece succeed in a non-linear way; and time, labyrinth of journeys, releases the memories that were already forgotten.
ASHLEY JOHN LONG (Wales, 1986)
Beyond the Haze of Winter's Edge (2020)
ISCM Welsh Section submission
— This work takes its inspiration from a repetitive dream that I kept having around the time of composition. In the dream, I found myself walking a strange, desolate winter landscape alone, and with no end in sight. I found the imagery unsettling, but strangely calming. The piece reflects these qualities with a character that is predominantly meditative, but hints at a darker undertone with occasional violent outbursts. The work is cyclic in nature and melodic and harmonic materials are transformed through various means, whilst small expressive fragments create brief flurries of activity which always gradually fade once more into stillness.
GONÇALO GATO (Portugal, 1979)
Elementos (2018)
ISCM Portuguese Section submission
— Elementos [Elements] is a set of four short pieces dealing with elementary music concepts. These elements build a highly focused, simple, and direct musical discourse. In the first movement, Melodia, melody is paramount, permeating all three instruments. It is the momentary creator of harmony but also what suggests other musical elements such as the diatonic scale or the triadic chord. In the second movement, Ostinato, the ostinato and its gradual transformations underlie the musical discourse. The third movement, Pulsação, focuses on the pulse, a basilar and fundamental element of music. The pulse is taken not as something implicit but as a raw material for musical construction. In very subtle ways, the sense of metre arises and fades. Sonoridade, the last movement, deals with harmonic sonority in a very elementary way, as simple melodic segments unite a set of chords.
JOSÉ LUIS PERDIGÓN DE PAZ (Spain, 1990) YCA
torque (2019)
ISCM Spanish Section submission
— torque (“moment”, “moment of force”, or “turning effect”) is a force that tends to cause rotation or change the rotational motion of a body. The piece explores a musical gesture consisting of an impulse and its retraction. After the piano’s initial impulse, the strings’ melodic lines emerge like elastic threads, which shape and define the duration and intensity of each moment and direct it towards the next.