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    Official Website under reconstruction

    Saturday, March 21st, 2009

    The link to my “official website” is not fully functional at present. The website, beautifully designed by Rui Soares Esteves and his partner Pedro Ramos, went offline. I am hoping to restore full functionality soon, complete with sound samples, articles, poetry etc.
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    God Homeland Revolution - and Hamlet

    Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

    On Saturday I will be playing the complete music from my latest CD in Montijo, with texts read by André Gago, in the first of a series of “Hamlet Concerts”. But the first two months of this year were filled with something very different, the preparations for a Portuguese Music theatre piece entitled “Deus Patria […]

    Seasons greetings

    Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

    Wishing all a wonderful Christmas season, and a truly positive New Year in which to discover our truth - however different it may be than what we have imagined.
    Somehow I believe that even a star killed by clichés
    recovers its light in the blank void of somewhere.
    It sort of reminds me of where I am going
    even […]

    Radio Interview

    Monday, December 22nd, 2008

    In November I was interviewed by Manuela Paraiso of Radio Europa (Lisboa), to talk about my CD “Hamlet” and about my work in general. The interview is in Portuguese and divided into two parts, both of them accompanied by music selected from my improvisations. Here are the links:
    Part 1
    Part 2
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    Performer & composer, viewed sideways

    Saturday, October 25th, 2008

    Since my last post I gave a performance in France of the pieces from “Hamlet”, and have developed a new chapter in my teaching to coincide with our move to the brand new building of the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, in Benfica. I am now researching the question of interior listening in the […]

    My new CD “Hamlet” and some thoughts about the listener

    Sunday, July 6th, 2008

    I finally had the launching of my latest CD “Hamlet – 11 improvisations for piano”, on the 28th of June at the Fábrica do Braço de Prata in Lisbon, organised by André Gago and Teatro Instável, the producer of the CD and of the original performances of the play for which my music was created […]

    Passion and fireworks (and a great fall)

    Sunday, May 11th, 2008

    “If you have three minutes to spare and yearn to replace noise with peace, jarring discord with blissful harmony and ugliness with beauty, visit Love’s Sanctuary, where Zayra and Nicholas will invite you into a refuge that clears your mind and changes the colours of your day.” Ken H.
    Music by its nature invites all kinds […]

    Love’s Sanctuary

    Saturday, April 26th, 2008

    My latest video adventure, entitled Love’s Sanctuary and uploaded to YouTube and other sites a few days ago, seems to give the effect, even more than my last, of a seamless integration of poetry, painting and music. Perhaps this is because of the effortless stream of emotion of the music, or the subject matter of […]

    Poems, poets and ‘Pilgrim hitchhiking…’ (multimedia video)

    Monday, April 7th, 2008

    In January I was studying with my son the life and poetry of that extraordinary multiple personality, Fernando Pessoa. For my son it was in preparation for a Portuguese exam, but for me this was a timely excuse to penetrate further the multi-faceted world of a man who wrote under many different names (the chief […]

    Transatlantic transcriptions & performers

    Friday, March 21st, 2008

    Today is Good Friday, the heaviest day in the Christian religious calendar, and I have spent much of it transcribing a piece called “Heaviness” - the first track on my latest CD ‘Hamlet’ (to be launched soon at the Fábrica do Braço de Prata, watch this space for details) - this music accompanied Hamlet’s first […]

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