Luís Tinoco - Piia Komsi sings "Search Songs"

Biography

Luis Tinoco (b. 1969, Lisbon) made his First Degree in composition at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa. He was then awarded with scholarships by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Centro Nacional de Cultura to complete a Masters degree in Composition at the Royal Academy of Music, in London. Presently, he's doing a PhD Music research at the University of York, with Prof. Nicola LeFanu.

Música

Round Time
Orquestra Nacional do Porto, dir. Cesário Costa

Antipode
Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, dir.: Lorraine Vaillancourt

Next Train Approaching
(2º and. de "Mind the Gap"): Pedro Carneiro

Short Cuts (C), excerpt
Chicago Symphony soloists, cond. by. Cliff Colnot - (live performance)

Diptych - for piano and orchestra
António Rosado (pno.), Orquestra Nacional do Porto, dir.: Martin André

"Dr. Maxman" - 5th movement from "Spam!", for baritone and 16 musicians.
Mário Redondo (voz / voice); OrchestrUtopica, dir. René Bosc (gravação ao vivo / live performance recording)

"Forgotten Places" - 3rd mov.
Lontano Ensemble

"Trois Poèmes de l'Orient" - 3rd mov., excerpt
Eileen Hulse (sopr.), Lontano Ensemble, dir. Odaline de La Martinez

"Invention on Landscape", excerpt
Lontano Ensemble, dir. Odaline de La Martinez

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May 08 2010

Piia Komsi sings "Search Songs"

Saturday, 08 May 2010

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On the 8th of May, at the Casa da Música | 06:00 p.m., Sala Suggia, the Finnish soprano Piia Komsi will sing Search Songs, a song cycle composed by Luís Tinoco in 2007 setting a collection of poems by Alexander Search (Fenando Pessoa). Komsi will be joined by the Orquestra Nacional do Porto, under the baton of Martin André. The program includes Jean Sibelius' Nightride and Sunrise, Kaija Saariaho's Leino Songs and Joly Braga Santos' Symphony No. 1.

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(..) Coloratura Soprano, Piia Komsi is known for her exceptionally high and flexible voice, virtuoso technique and exceptional ear. She tackles baroque, classical, and also modern repertoire with incredible ease and many composers today write music specially for her voice. Piia is today a coveted international performer, whose vocal acrobatics, suberb musicianship and artistic talent take her all over the globe.

(...) a obra impressionou pela mestria que amiúde revelou na orquestração, sobretudo nas duas canções mais vivas (2 e 4), ao passo que nas outras se poderá falar de uma concepção de câmara alargada. Tinoco é expressivo, sedutor e, aqui e ali, ácido, tirando partido da capacidade colorística que é um dos seus mais reconhecidos traços distintivos.

Bernardo Mariano, Diário de Notícias, July 2007

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