Rita Torres

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past events


2024

2023

5.7

Piece presentation: CS/uLh (premiere)

In XilogravuraSonoras

18:00 | GrETUA | Universidade de Aveiro

Helvio Mendes | Xylophone

2.9

Piece presentation: MSTRG-TRLD (Premiere)

Festival Itinerante de Percussão (FIP) | especial 2023

18:30 | Casa da Música | Porto

B. Costa, M. Bernat, E. Cardinho, P. Carneiro, J. Dias, M. Fernandes, M. Herrera, Percussion | M. Teixeira, conductor


15.9

Communication (pre-recorded):

Sources of artistic inspiration: An analytical framework to investigate their selection and influence

GAPS2 – Global Art and Psychology Seminar: “Creativity in music and the arts”

York, Graz, La Plata, Melbourne & Online


2022

2021

2020

14.10

Piece presentation: Le tombeau de Falla

In concert of Iberian music for voice and guitar, Colloque EILA

17:30 | Maison du Portugal | Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris

Mariana Fabião, soprano | Gonçalo Cordeiro, guitar

22.3

Communication: Creative processes in composing for guitar: An auto-investigation in retrospect

The 21st Century Guitar Conference

12:00 UTC | Online

Youtube (at 1:10:45)


1.7

Communication: Poesia Transfigurada:

Abordagens não convencionais para a apresentação de poesia gravada

Simpósio Permanente de Investigação do CESEM #5

Youtube


13.12

Communication / Q&A session:

Research on (classical) guitar multiphonics

Zoom Happy Hour for Guitar Scholars

17:00 GMT | Guitar Foundation of America | Online


2019

2018

2017

17.3

Piece presentation: Luminescências

Reencontros de Música Contemporânea

19:00 | Teatro Aveirense | Aveiro

Nuno Moreira, Guitar


23.3

Piece presentation: The fireflies, twinkling among leaves, make the stars wonder

Reencontros de Música Contemporânea

19:00 | Teatro Aveirense | Aveiro

Rita Miragaia, Guitar


30.4

Piece presentation: The fireflies, twinkling among leaves, make the stars wonder

Guildhall School of Music | London

Rita Miragaia, Guitar


3.5

Piece presentation: The fireflies, twinkling among leaves, make the stars wonder

Conservatorio Superior de Música de Vigo

Rita Miragaia, Guitar


25.8

Communication (via Skype): Forms of usage of guitar multiphonics: State of the art

The 21st Century Guitar Conference

10:30 | Room 113 | Perez Building | University of Ottawa


10.10

Communication: Echos from Granada: Setting to music Lorca guitar-related poetry by revisiting Falla's Homenage

Tracking the Creative Process in Music

13:30 | Room CAN 219 | Colégio Almada Negreiros | Universidade NOVA de Lisboa


9.12

Piece presentation: Mostrengo-Interlude

Pedagogical activity | Festival DME

Escola E.B. 2,3 Dr. Fortunato de Almeida | Nelas

13.1

Piece presentation: Cyrano-Szenen: parts II, III and VI

Vorbereitungsvorspiel zu “Jugend musiziert” organisiert vom Tonkünstlerverband Baden-Württemberg

13:30 | Hilde-Domin Saal | Stadtbibliothek | Heidelberg

David Strüder, Guitar


22.1

Piece presentation: Cyrano-Szenen: parts II, III and VI

Jugend musiziert”-Teilnehmer stellen sich vor

19:00 | Musikschule Mannheim

David Strüder, Guitar


27.1

Piece presentation: Cyrano-Szenen: parts II, III and VI

Jugend musiziert”: Regionalwettbewerb Mannheim

17:00 | Musikschule Mannheim

David Strüder, Guitar


09.2

Communication: A técnica de multifónicos na guitarra

Festival de Guitarra de Castelo Branco

19:00 | Conservatório Regional de Castelo Branco


10.3

Piece presentation: Cyrano-Szenen: parts II, III, VI

Schülervorspiel des Regionalverbandes Rhein-Neckar im Tonkünstlerverband Baden-Württemberg e. V.

19:00 | Musikschule Mannheim

David Strüder, Guitar


17.3

Piece presentation: Cyrano-Szenen: parts II, III, VI

Jugend musiziert: Landeswettbewerb Baden-Württemberg

17:50 | Gemeindesaal | Paulus Kirche | Bietigheim-Bissingen

David Strüder, Guitar


05.4

Lecture-demonstration: A técnica de multifónicos na guitarra

Festival DME 60 / 12º Curso de Férias de Guitarra Collegium Musicum

17:00 | Conservatório de Música de Seia


29.4

Piece presentation: Shaking Mendeleev in the Presence of a Guitar

Concert 20 | Festival Mixtur

13:00 | Fabra I Coats-Fàbrica de Creació | Barcelona


19.5

Communication: A técnica de multifónicos na guitarra

Festival DME 61

11:00 | Lisboa Incomum


Piece presentations: Cyrano-Szenen & Si amanece, nos vamos

Festival DME 61

15:00 | Lisboa Incomum

Bertrand Chavarría-Aldrete, Guitar


10.7

Communication: Guitar multiphonics: Overview of an ongoing research

International Guitar Forum | 3rd Altamira Hong Kong International Guitar Symposium

Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts

delivered by Dr. Milton Mermikides, International Guitar Research Centre, UK


6.10

Communication (outreach): Luminescências

Conversas 4.0

10:55 | Centro Cultural da Barquinha | Vila Nova da Barquinha


11.10

Piece presentation: Cyrano-Szenen: parts II, III, VI

Musikschulkonzert

19:00 | Musikschule Mannheim

David Strüder, Guitar


13.10

Piece presentation: Cyrano-Szenen: parts II, III, VI

63. Jugendwettbewerb des Tonkünstlerverbandes Baden-Württemberg

19:00 | Musikhochschule Stuttgart

David Strüder, Guitar


21.11

Communication: Si amanece, nos vamos: From a Goya print to a new form of usage of guitar multiphonics

NOVA Contemporary Music Meeting

17:10 | Sala das Batalhas | Palácio Fronteira | Lisboa

12.3

Communication: The technique of guitar multiphonics

6th Lake Constance Guitar Research Meeting

08:30 | Hotel Hoeri am Bodensee | Hemmenhofen (Germany)


23.10

Communication: The technique of guitar multiphonics

15:30 | Royal Conservatoire Antwerp


5.11

Presentation: Shaking Mendeleev in the Presence of a Guitar

4. Saarbrücker Tage für electro-akustische und visuelle Musik (eviMus)

11:00 | KuBa – Kulturzentrum am Eurobahnhof | Saarbrücken


9.11

Communication: A técnica de multifónicos na guitarra

15:30 | Salão Nobre | Edifício dos Congregados | Minho University | Braga


29.11

Communication: A técnica de multifónicos na guitarra

14:30 | Sala dos Espelhos | Escola de Artes | Évora University | Évora


13.12

Communication: A técnica de multifónicos na guitarra

17:00 | Pavilhão 2 | University of Music and Performing Arts (ESMAE) | Porto

2016

2015

2014

15.03

Communication: O mundo sonoro da técnica de multifónicos na guitarra

Included Piece presentation of “Si amanece, nos vamos”

15:00 | Auditório do CUFC | Universidade de Aveiro | Aveiro (PT)


23.03

Communication: The soundworld of guitar multiphonics

Included Piece presentation of “Si amanece, nos vamos”

International Guitar Research Conference

11:35 | University of Surrey | Guildford (UK)


02 - 04.09.2016

Piece presentation: Mostrengo-Interlude & Shaking Mendeleev in the Presence of a Guitar

Sound Gallery | Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music

6 - 9 pm (Sep. 2), 10 am - 7 pm | Dudley House | Bendigo (Australia)


16.09

Viva voce: A new chemistry of sound: The technique of multiphonics as a compositional element for guitar and amplified guitar

Sala EA 226 | Universidade Católica Portuguesa | Porto


29.10

Communication: The technique of guitar multiphonics

5th International Scientific Meeting for Sound and Musical Instrument Studies

14:30 | Museum | Castle of Abrantes (Portugal)

09.05

Piece presentation: Si amanece, nos vamos (premiere)

O Tempo e o Modo: Diálogos entre Guitarras, Festival Terras sem sombra

21:30 | Igreja Matriz de Santiago Maior | Santiago do Cacém (Portugal)

Jürgen Ruck, Guitar

Program of the concert


04.07

Piece presentation: Shaking Mendeleev in the Presence of a Guitar

Portugal XX - XXI: Trajectos da nova música portuguesa | III Festival Guitarras Mágicas

22:00 | Eira dos Amiais | Couto de Esteves (Portugal)

Jaime Reis, Difusão sonora


29.09

Piece presentation: Si amanece, nos vamos

Neue Werke für Gitarre | matrix15

20:00 | Gartensaal | Schloss Ebnet | Freiburg

Jürgen Ruck, Guitar

13.02

Radio broadcast: Le tombeau de Falla

Tonades de la península (see 20.01.2013)

12:00 | Auditoris | Catalunya Música | Barcelona


29.03

Communication: Guitar multiphonics: Establishing locations

Symposium for the Launch of the International Guitar Research Centre

11:30 | University of Surrey | Guildford (UK)


4.12

Communication: Guitar multiphonics: Influence of amplification

9th Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology – CIM14

18:00 | Curt-Saachs-Saal | Museum of Musical Instruments | Berlin


2013

2012

2011

20.01

Piece presentation: Le tombeau de Falla (premiere)

Tonades de la península

18:00 | Residencies Musicals: Anna Alàs I Jové – Concert solista | Auditori La Pedrera | Barcelona

Anna Alàs I Jové, mezzo-soprano | Eugeni Muriel, guitar

Program of the concert


11.03

Radio broadcast: Le tombeau de Falla

Tonades de la península (see 20.01.2013)

11:00 | MPClàssics | Catalunya Música | Barcelona


17.05

Piece presentation: Le tombeau de Falla

20:30 | Music night #3 | Openhouse Project | Barcelona

Anna Alàs I Jové, mezzo-soprano | Eugeni Muriel, guitar


31.05

Radio broadcast: Le tombeau de Falla

Tonades de la península (see 20.01.2013)

12:00 | Auditoris | Catalunya Música | Barcelona


15.11

Piece presentation: Le tombeau de Falla

Tonades de la península

20:00 | Residents 2013-2014 | Ateneu Barcelonès | Barcelona

Anna Alàs i Jové, mezzo-soprano | Eugeni Muriel, guitar


16.11

Piece presentation: Le tombeau de Falla

Tonades de la península

18:00 | Hotel El Monegal | Sant Llorenç de Morunys (Catalonia)

Anna Alàs i Jové, mezzo-soprano | Eugeni Muriel, guitar


11.12

Communication: Guitar multiphonics: Notations for a formalized approach

VII Simpósio Acadêmico de Violão da EMBAP

15:00 | Auditório EMBAP | Curitiba

07.07

Communication: Multiphonics as a Compositional Element in Writing for Amplified Guitar

Third International Symposium on Music and Sonic Art: Theories and Practices

10:15 | Hörsaal | Schloss Gottesaue | Karlsruhe


26.10

Communication: Multiphonics as a Compositional Element in Writing for Amplified Guitar (1)

Korean Electro-Acoustic Music Society’s 2012 Annual Conference

16:20 | Bldg. 220, Room 202 | Seoul National University


16.11

Radio broadcast: Cyrano-Szenen

12:00 -13:30 | High Noon | Radio Stadtfilter | Winterthur

Rita Torres, guitar


19.11

Piece presentation: Aquelarre step-by-step (premiere)

19:00 | Villa Sträuli | Winterthur

20.11

Piece presentation: Aquelarre step-by-step

20:15 | unternehmen mitte | Basel

Aquelarre: cadavre exquis by women composers

with action painting

Music: Heather Frasch, Haruka Hirayama

Ulrike Mayer-Spohn, Yoly Rojas, Rita Torres

Maruta Staravoitava, flute | Dafne Sandoval, bassoon

Estelle Costanzo, harp | Olivia Steimel, accordion

Ami Rossier, percussion

Christine Verdon, violin | Ellen Fallowfield, cello

Nicole Fior, action painting

Concept and organization: chaotic.moebius

watch Basel Piece presentation


8.10

Communication: O microfone como elemento composicional

Jornadas de Doutoramento 2011

15:00 | Auditório 4 | Campus Foz | Universidade Católica | Porto


17.11

Communication: Das Mikrofon als kompositionelles Element

IMA Lab Nº 7

18:00 | Vortragssaal | ZKM | Karlsruhe

2010

2009

2008

16.01

Piece presentation: Shaking Mendeleev in the Presence of a Guitar

Concert 2 | NoiseFloor Festival

4:30 PM | Television studio | Staffordshire University | Stafford (UK)

Program of the concert


24.04

Piece presentation: Mostrengo-Interlude

Prémio do Público (categoria audio)

Competição Áudio | 7º Festival Black & White

14:30 | Auditório Ilídio Pinho | Universidade Católica | Porto


01.06

Piece presentation: Shaking Mendeleev in the Presence of a Guitar

Evening Concert I | 2010 International Computer Music Conference

8:00 PM | Miller Theater | Columbia University | New York City

Program of the concert


17-24.07

Piece presentation: Shaking Mendeleev in the Presence of a Guitar

Sound Stations | Sonic Vigil V

St. Fin Barre’s Cathedral | Cork (Ireland)

Sound Stations Playlists


22.09

Piece presentation: SMPG

Isao Nakamura & Friends | Okayama International Music Festival

19:00 | Renaiss Hall | Okayama

Asuka Atanaka, Perc. 1 | Isao Nakamura, Perc. 2 & Conducting

Sakiko Idei, Perc. 3 | Hideki Ikegami, Perc. 4

Noriko Maekawa, Perc. 5 | Martin Frink, Perc. 6

Program of the concert


25.09

Piece presentation: SMPG

Isao Nakamura & Friends

18:00 | Phoenix Hall | Osaka

Asuka Atanaka, Perc. 1 | Isao Nakamura, Perc. 2 & Conducting

Sakiko Idei, Perc. 3 | Hideki Ikegami, Perc. 4

Noriko Maekawa, Perc. 5 | Martin Frink, Perc. 6

Program of the concert

22.01

Piece presentation: Mostrengo-Interlude

with video by Sebastian Schmidt

Studiokonzert (HfM KA)

20:00 | Kubus | ZKM | Karlsruhe

Konzertprogramm


30.01

Piece presentation: Mostrengo-Interlude

with video by Sebastian Schmidt

Isto não é um concerto

21:00 | Pequeno Auditório | CCB | Lisboa

Programa do concerto

Crítica do concerto


10.02

Piece presentation: Cyrano-Szenen

Gitarrenmusik aus Portugal und Brasilien

20:00 | Kammermusiksaal | Hochschule für Musik Würzburg

Manfred Guggemos, Guitar

Konzertprogramm


21.03

Presentation: Shaking Mendeleev in the Presence of a Guitar

8th Annual International Women’s Electroacoustic Listening Room Project

1 PM | Recital Room | California State University, Fullerton

Listening Room Playlist


09.05

Piece presentation: Mostrengo-Interlude

Ondas segundo Poetas

21:30 | Auditório Phillippe Friedman | Instituto Franco-Português | Lisboa

Programa do concerto


02.06

Piece presentation: SMPG (premiere)

Schlagzeugabend

19:30 | Genuit-Saal | Schloss Gottesaue | Karlsruhe

Keita Maeda, Perc. 1 | Isao Nakamura, Perc. 2 & conductor

Sakiko Idei, Perc. 3 | Raoul Nies, Perc. 4

Hiromi Shigeno, Perc. 5 | Michael Steiner, Perc. 6

Konzertprogramm


23.07

Piece presentation: Mostrengo-Interlude

6th Sound and Music Computing Conference

19:00 | Sala 2 | Casa da Música | Porto

Programa do concerto


24.07-02.08

Piece presentation: Mostrengo-Interlude

Stereo version with video by Sebastian Schmidt

ton:art – digitale Klangkunst

Galerie Margit Haupt | Karlsruhe

Mo-Fr: 15:00-20:00 | Sa+So: 11:00-14:00

Eröffnung: 23.07 | 20:00


01.10

Piece presentation: Shaking Mendeleev in the Presence of a Guitar

Channel Noise: Electronic Music

7:30 PM | Carol A. Carter Hall | Georgia Southern University | Statesboro

Program of the concert


28.10

Piece presentations:

MSTRG (premiere)

Sakiko Idei, Percussion

Cyrano-Szenen

Mauricio Carrasco, Guitar

Quando eu morrer – Vertonungsversuche um den Tod

Anna Alàs i Jové, Mezzo-soprano

Christoph Heeg, Saxophone

Yannick Wirner, Piano

SMPG

Seulki Im, Perc. 1 | Isao Nakamura, Perc. 2 & conductor

Sakiko Idei, Perc. 3 | Keiko Kida, Perc. 4

Hiromi Shigeno, Perc. 5 | Michael Steiner, Perc. 6

DKA-Abschlusskonzert

19:30 | Velte-Saal | Schloss Gottesaue | Karlsruhe

Konzertkritik


26.03

Piece presentation: Shaking Mendeleev in the Presence of a Guitar

Festival DME 4

18:00 | Conservatório de Música de Seia | Seia (Portugal)

Programa do concerto


25.04

Piece presentation: Mostrengo-Interlude (premiere)

with video by Katja Wahl

Wellen durch Dichter

20:00 | Kubus | ZKM | Karlsruhe

Konzertprogramm


29.05

Piece presentation: Mostrengo-Interlude

Ondes d’après Poètes

19:30 | Maison du Brésil | CIUP | Paris

Programme du concert


06.06

Piece presentation: Mostrengo-Interlude

(premiere)

with video by Katja Wahl

Ondes d’après Poètes

19:30 | Amphi X | Université Paris 8 | Paris

Programme du concert


02.07

Piece presentation: Mostrengo-Interlude

with video by Sebastian Schmidt

Music2thousand

20:30 | Marstall | Schloss Gottesaue | Karlsruhe

Konzertprogramm


20-27.09

Piece presentation: Shaking Mendeleev in the Presence of a Guitar

Sound Walk | 14º Festival Música Viva

Caminho Pedonal | CCB | Lisboa

Soundwalk Playlist



2007

2006

2005

13.03

Piece presentation: Cyrano-Szenen

Klangfarben-Farbklänge

19:30 | Rosbaud-Studio (SWR) | Baden-Baden

Rita Torres, Guitar

Konzertprogramm


31.05

Piece presentation: Quando eu morrer – Vertonungsversuche um den Tod (premiere)

Klassenkonzert Komposition

19:30 | Velte-Saal | Schloss Gottesaue | Karlsruhe

Anna Alàs i Jové, Mezzo-Soprano

André Dolabella, Piano

Pedro Bittencourt, Saxophone

Konzertprogramm


29.06

Piece presentation: um Lieder herum… (premiere)

Nachtklänge III

21:00 | Insel Theater | Karlsruhe

Stephan Rutz, Oboe | Georg Köhler, Horn

Huang Yin-Tiang, Bassoon | Katrin Bleier, Clarinet II

Frank Nebl, Clarinet I | Rie Watanabe, Percussion

Ulrich Wagner, Conductor

Konzertprogramm


15.12

Piece presentation: Shaking Mendeleev in the Presence of a Guitar

Jornadas Nova Música: 10 Anos

19:00 | Auditório de Serralves | Porto

Programa do concerto

22.06

Piece presentation: Cyrano-Szenen (premiere)

Kompositionsabend

19:30 | Velte-Saal | Schloss Gottesaue | Karlsruhe

Rita Torres, Guitar

Konzertprogramm

Konzertkritik


14.07

Piece presentation: Cyrano-Szenen II (premiere)

Nachtklänge III

21:00 | Insel Theater | Karlsruhe

Marie Huchting, Flute | Petar Hristov, Oboe | Na Li, Clarinet

Detlef Weiß, Bassoon I Oraia Patkou, Bassoon II

Lisiane de los Santos, Cello | Alexander Schröder, Perc.

Ulrich Wagner, Conductor

Konzertprogramm


15.01

Piece presentation: Shaking Mendeleev in the Presence of a Guitar (premiere)

Studiokonzert II

20:00 | Kubus | ZKM | Karlsruhe

Konzertprogramm


09.06

Piece presentation: Shaking Mendeleev in the Presence of a Guitar

Menschine | Next Generation Festival

17:00 | Medientheater | ZKM | Karlsruhe

Konzertprogramm


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