Here are my most personal creations. Music that lives by its own rules, as defined by both mind and heart.
À Procura (Searching) – A simple but poignant love story between two musical characters, the piano and the electronics. They meet, feel suspicious, discover, learn, fight, meander through loneliness… and finally realise that, all along, they fit together quite nicely.
A Psicanálise do Guitarrista Maldito (The Psychoanalysis of the Guitariste Maudit) –Part therapy, part self-discovery, this piece tells a story that walks along a path of different emotions instead of an actual plot. An uncontrolled improvisation followed that chain of feelings, and I scribbled it down during an intense spring week! The result is sometimes uncomfortable, sometimes wacky, sometimes gentle, and often dreamy.
O Elemento Ausente (Missing Link) – One walks down a road. Years later they walk the same path, but new structures are in place. Does the memory feel incomplete?
Looking back at the past with newfound maturity, we reach new conclusions. But feelings and ideas from the past were just as real and complete, and perhaps no less valid.
In Missing Link, the same music is played twice. The woodwinds enter the stage in the middle of the piece, playing only during the second run. Filling gaps, darkening memories, brightening ideas…
Chronological list of works
A Psicanálise do Guitarrista Maldito
(The Psychoanalysis of the “Guitariste Maudit”)
2 guitars
05/2023

Solitude and Anxiety in an Ordinary Night
Electronics
12/2021
Déjà Entendu
Orchestra
09/2015,
revised 05/2021

Common Ground
Clarinet and Violin
02/2021

Nocturne
Piano
05/2017

Noite Perene
(Unending Night)
Baritone Sax and Electronics
06/2016

Yinang
Piano
2012,
revised 04/2016

Preludio e Canone
(Prelude and Canon)
Ensemble
03/2015

Ciclos de Metamorfose (Metamorphose Cycles)
Cello
02/2015

Caminhos Cruzados (Crossroads)
Mixed Percussion Solo
02/2015

À Procura (Searching)
Piano and Electronics
01/2015

Eclosão (Outbreak)
Solo Clarinet (Bb and Eb)
10/2014

O Elemento Ausente
(The Missing Link)
Ensemble
06/2014

Falar o Nada e Mentir (Speaking Nothing and Lying)
Narrator, Soprano, Piano
01/2014

Variações Destras (Right-handed Variations)
Piano, right hand only
04/2013

Prelude
Guitar
10/2011
Withdrawn/student works
- Quinteto Linear (Linear Quintet) – Ensemble – 06/2015
- Evitando a Chuva Instituída – Electronics – 08/2014
- Rituais Interrompidos (Interrupted Rituals) – Orchestra – 06/2014
- Na Direcção da Dessincronia (Towards Assynchrony) – Vocal/instrumental ensemble – 11/2013
- Spatium – Ensemble – 05/2013
- Harmon – Saxophone, trumpet and violin – 04/2013