Music
Alexey Shakitko
We’ll be opening the Archive Room at the Paços do Concelho building for a piano recital where the dominant note will be one of joy, provided by a scholarly European musical tradition which has survived for several centuries and has been an endless source of aesthetic inspiration. Pianist Alexey Shakitko transports us to a rich […]
Orquestra Orbis
Despite its austere façade, when you walk into São Roque Church, you discover an interior enriched by gilded wood carvings, paintings and tiles from the 16th and 17th centuries, making up an important collection of decorative Mannerist and Baroque art. In keeping with the church’s characteristics, Orquestra Orbis will be performing a Christmas concert with […]
Coro e Ensemble Orquestral do Estúdio de Ópera da Maia
The story of Jesus’ birth will be told at a concert featuring the Maia Opera Studio Choir and Orchestral Ensemble. Experiencing what Christmas has been like over time is the purpose of this show, which includes pieces by renowned composers, such as Mendelssohn and Handel, as well as new arrangements. The aim is to take […]
St. Dominic’s Gospel Choir
St. Dominic’s Gospel Choir will be welcoming those arriving in Lisbon with an electrifying set of Christmas songs at the main entrance of Lisbon Airport. The energy of gospel, coupled with a repertoire familiar to all, promises to be a hit with travellers. Expect famous pop songs, such as “All I Want for Christmas is […]
Coro Ricercare e Orquestra Sinfonietta de Lisboa
The Ricercare Choir, Sinfonietta de Lisboa and soprano Elsa Cortez, conducted by Vasco Pearce de Azevedo, will be performing a Christmas concert that will alternate between renowned composers of orchestral and choir music, such as Fauré and Mendelssohn, and young contemporary Portuguese composers, ending with traditional Christmas songs from different parts of the world. The […]
Coro de Câmara Bomtempo, Compasso, Musaico, Coro do Conservatório Nacional, Escola Artística de Música do Conservatório Nacional
At this concert, you’ll have the chance to hear a standard of German religious music with the Câmara Bomtempo Choir, discover traditional Christmas songs from different countries of Latin America with the Compasso Choir and even Christmas songs from less obvious European countries, like Croatia or the Czech Republic with the Musaico choir. This meeting […]
Maria Ana Bobone
“Fado & Piano” is an innovative work in which Maria Ana Bobone provides vocals and piano, giving us her own take on the songs, lyrics and arrangements she performs, imbuing them with a different and particular colour. Recovering a forgotten tradition (at the end of the 19th century fado was accompanied by piano, before it […]
Helder Moutinho
The word fado is known to come from the Latin term “fatum”, meaning destiny. Destiny as luck, future, fatality, fortune, fate. But also as a course or direction, path or creation, desire or utopia. A destiny that can be written in lines drawn by hands or in the stars, but which can also be invented […]
Real Combo Lisbonense
The Jardim da Estrela bandstand will be staging a concert by Real Combo Lisbonense, a project recovering a tradition which was somewhat lost in time: the tradition of orchestras and dance ensembles that entertained the bars, restaurants, hotels, casinos and parties in 1950s and 60s Portugal. This is a reunion with the origins of Pop […]
Cristina Branco
Within the conservative and traditionalist world of Fado, Cristina Branco always offers an alternative based on her profound knowledge of the poets and poems that she interprets, first-class composers and excellent musicians. Her most recent release, “Branco”, has been critically acclaimed and enthusiastically received by the public. Alongside the award-winning “Menina” (winner of Best Album […]
Amor no Vale
Nuno Coelho will be conducting a universally popular collection of operatic arias, connected through a journey which, despite taking a variety of different paths, always ends up in the giddiness of love. But while love, as we well know, can manifest itself in ecstatic and romantic feelings, it can also reveal itself as tragic and […]
Big Band de Alunos – Escola de Jazz Luiz Villas-Boas / HCP
The repertoire of the great jazz orchestras of the 1940s and 50s are an integral part of any jazz school student’s education. The Students’ Big Band from the Luiz Villas-Boas Jazz School has been working on this set during the school year and performs it periodically at concerts at the Hot Clube de Portugal and […]
Young Jazz Network
For this concert, we’re inviting the Norwegian teacher Odd André who has previously worked in partnership with the Jazz School, resulting in a group of youths travelling to Japan. Here he’ll be leading a group of youngsters from various countries, as well as a group of young musicians from across this country, who’ll be coming […]
Duarte
“Só a cantar” is Duarte’s new CD. A psychologist by profession, Duarte’s lover is Fado, a long-held passion. His musical training allows him to live his art in different ways. Duarte is an author, composer and performer (vocals and guitar), a rarity amongst fadistas. But perhaps that’s the secret behind the soul in his words, […]
Combo da Escola de Jazz Luis Villas-Boas
The Combo form of jazz allows students to develop their skills in teamwork and improvisation, as well as gaining experience of performing publicly. For this performance, the students from the HCP will be playing a varied setlist, including their own arrangements of classics like the Gershwin Brothers’ “I Got Rhythm”, adaptations on “free jazz” pieces, […]
ALTERAÇÃO DE DATA – Big Band Júnior abraça Sassetti Orquestra-escola de Jazz Orelha Viva/HCP
O intuito do projeto que subjaz a este concerto é dar a conhecer a música de Bernardo Sassetti às gerações mais novas, quer aos músicos que integram a orquestra, quer aos jovens que assistem ao concerto. Como tal, o repertório é constituído essencialmente por temas de Bernardo Sassetti arranjados para big band por músicos portugueses. […]
Hora de Baco
Live music, a view of the Tagus and glass of wine in your hand are what make up Bacchus Hour, hosted by the Museu de Lisboa – Teatro Romano during the evening of the last Thursday of each month. 29 august, 6pm – Zé Pinho e Amigos 26 september, 6pm – 3 Damas e 1 […]
Out Jazz
In September, we’ll be saying farewell to the Summer and musical Sundays in the city’s parks. In this last month of Out Jazz, the Parque da Bela Vista will be making its debut and hosting this free, open-air music festival, where you can relax to the sound of the best of jazz, soul, funk and […]
Diego El Gavi
Lisbon singer/songwriter Diego el Gavi launches his first album Puerta del Alma and reveals a heartfelt interpretation of the deep gypsy aura, in a fusion of Flamenco with Latin Jazz. Joins Victor Zamora piano, Paulo Croft guitar, Ricardo Pinto trumpet, Leo Espinosa bass and Carlos Mil-Homens percussion.
Lisboa Mistura – 8 june
8 June 18:00 DJ Ricardo Alves Angola 19:30 AL-QASAR 4 Continentes The Middle East, 1972. A new generation of musicians begins to incorporate the new amplified sounds of the West into traditional Eastern music, accompanied by traditional Arab musical instruments such as the darabouka, saz and qanun. Los Angeles, 2018. French American Thomas Bellier […]