D. Bomtempo & Carlos Seixas - Studies and Toccatas

Sofia Lourenço

D. Bomtempo & Carlos Seixas - Studies and Toccatas

SOFIA LOURENÇO - piano: Sofia Lourenço, pianist of the new generation, was born in Porto. Her intensive concert activity in both solo and chamber music is combined with her pedagogical work as a piano teacher; she is a professor at the Superior School of Music and Performing Arts at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto. 

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Sofia Lourenço - piano

Composer(s)

Domingos Bomtempo / Carlos Seixas

Work(s)

WORKS: BOMTEMPO & SEIXAS: Studies and Toccatas / J DOMINGOS BOMTEMPO (1775-1842) 12 ESTUDOS OP. 19 - I C Minor / II C Major / III G Major / IV D Major / V E Major / VI F Major 

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Porto Romântico - Mazurkas e Romanzas

Sofia Lourenço

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Sofia Lourenço concluded her advanced piano studies in her native city of Porto (Conservatory of Music of Porto, Faculty of Humanities of the University of Porto). A student of Helena Sá e Costa, she also received training with other accomplished pianists (Sequeira Costa, V. Margulis, A. Larrocha, G. Sebok, C. Cebro, G. Sava, L. Simon). As a Gulbenkian Scholarship recipient, she obtained her Diploma in Piano Solo (Abschlussprüfung Klavier) from the renowned Hochschule der Künste Berlin (Berlin Academy of Arts), where she would remain as a student during five years. She was admitted to this school along with 7 other students, after rigorous selection from among 80 international candidates.

She has presented numerous concerts as a soloist and in duo (with clarinet, violin, saxophone, contrabass, voice, etc.), as well as with orchestra in various cultural projects in Portugal and abroad. Since 1991 she has been a professor of piano at the Superior School of Music and of Performing Arts of Porto. Having obtained the her Masters Degree, she continued with Doctoral Studies, receiving the degree Doctor of Music and Musicology from the University of Évora in 2005.

Sofia Lourenço is dedicated to the dissemination of Portuguese music from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, having recorded 2 solo piano CD’s with the label Numérica.

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Sofia Lourenço | piano

Arthur Napoleão (1843 - 1925)

1 Romance op.71 - Nº1 03’51’’

2 Habanera op.71 - Nº2 07’33’’

Óscar da Silva (1870 - 1958)

3 Mazurka op.9 Nº2 Zärtlich 03’07’’

4 Mazurka op. 9 Nº3 Avec Coquetterie 01’26’’

Hernâni Torres (1881 - 1939)

5 Mazurka op.13 - Nº1 02’39’’

6 Fileuse op.10 - Nº2 02’18’’ 

7 Minuetto op.13 - Nº2 03’23’’

8 Dança op.11 - Nº1 02’47’’

Domingos Ciríaco de Cardoso (1846 - 1900)

9 À LA PLUS BELLE Polka para Piano op.4 02’55’’

10 VELOCÍPEDE Galope para Piano op.10 03’34’’ 

Pedro Blanco (1883 - 1919)

11 Jeunesse D’Amour – Valse Lente 04’15’’

Dos Mazurkas del Amor y del Dolor op.12 

12 I - MAZURKA DEL AMOR 03’18’’ 

13 II - MAZURKA DEL DOLOR 04’00’’

14 Mazurka Triste 02’43’’

Arthur Ferreira (1858 - 1926) 

15 Valsa ao meu collega Pedro Blanco 02’23’’

16 Mazurka ao meu collega Óscar da Silva 03’12’’

António de Lima Fragoso (1897 - 1918)

17 Dança Popular 02’15’’

Óscar da Silva

18 Valsa Nº 2 VIBRANTE 02’45’’

Tempo Total: 59’29’’

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Sofia Lourenço - Portuguese Contemporary Composers

Sofia Lourenço

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Sofia Lourenço was born in Porto, where she began her musical training in 1971, at the age of 5, with the Portuguese Musical Youth. She studied with Helena Sá e Costa, graduating in 1986 from the Conservatory of Music of Porto.

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Portuguese Contemporary Composers - Sofia Lourenço

Performer(s)

Sofia Lourenço (piano)

Composer(s)

J. Vianna da Motta (1868 - 1948) / Luiz Costa (1879 - 1960) / Berta Alves de Souza (1916 - 1997) / Maria Teresa Macedo (1926) / Fernando Lopes-Graça (1906 - 1994) / Filipe Pires (1934) / Álvaro Salazar (1938) / Carlos Azevedo (1964)

Work(s)

Ballade Op. 16 (da Motta) / Preludes Op. 9: Prelude I – Prelude III – Prelude IV (Costa) / Three Preludes: Prelude I – Prelude II – Prelude III (de Souza) / Song of Embalar (Macedo) / Portuguese Christmastimes (Lopes-Graça) / Figurations II (Pires) / Siete apuntes for un meccano (Salazar) / Obsession (Azevedo)

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