I-Tunes:
Miguel Borges Coelho was born in Oporto in 1971. He started his piano studies with Amélia Vilar and proceeded his studies in the Conservatory of Music of Oporto with Isabel Rocha, in whose class he graduated. During this period, he was awarded several prizes at national piano competitions.
As a scholar from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation he attended the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Freiburg im Breisgau with Vitalij Margulis (1990-93) and, in the following three years, the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia, with Dmitri Bashkirov and Galina Egyazarova.
He was awarded the 2nd Prize and the Prize for the best interpretation of contemporary music in the XIV Oporto International Music Competition in October 1997. In 1998, he received the Revelation Prize Ribeiro da Fonte from the Portuguese Ministry of Culture. He has played in some of the most important Portuguese theatres and concert halls, namely, in the opening recitals of the Campo Alegre Theatre and the Concert Hall of the Serralves Foundation. He has also played in numerous international music festivals, such as the Sintra Music Festival, the Póvoa do Varzim Music Festival, Festa da Música in Lisbon, Les Folles Journées in Nantes (France), the Ayamonte International Music Festival and the Encontre Internacional de Compositors de Las Islas Baleares (Spain).
As a soloist, he performed with the Oporto National Orchestra (namely in its opening concert as a symphony orchestra), the APROARTE Orchestra, the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, the Madeira Classical Orchestra, the Beiras
Filarmonia Orchestra, the Gulbenkian Orchestra, and the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra.
He gave the world première performance of pieces by Fernando Lopes Graça and João Pedro Oliveira.
He teaches piano at the School of Music and Performing Arts of Oporto (ESMAE) and at the High School of Music of the Basque Country Musikene.
Translation - Cristina Silva
Details:
This CD produced by Numérica, at the request of Matosinhos City-Hall, collects the Piano Music of the Portuguese composer Jorge Peixinho in a double-cd interpreted by Miguel Borges Coelho.
CD I
Cinco Pequenas Peças para piano (1959) - 06’12’’
1- I Vivace - 01’09’’
2 - II Andante - 01’30’’
3 - III Allegretto - 00’59’’
4 - IV Adagio - 01’11’’
5 - V Tempo giusto - 01’23’’
6 - Sucessões Simétricas I - (1961) - 04’15’’
Improvisação e estudo melódico para piano
7 - Estudo I (1969) - 08’16’’
Mémoire d’une présence absente
8 - Estudo III (1976) - 06’37’’
em si bemol maior
9 - Glosa I (1989/90) - 06’59’’
10 - In Folio / “Para Constança” (1992) - 05’51’’
11 - Estudo V / “Die Reihe Courante” (1992) - 07’42’’
Tempo total - 45’47’’
CD II
1 - Harmónicos I (1967) - 15’20’’
2 - Estudo II (1972) - 09’11’’
sobre as Quatro Estações
3 - Janeira (1995) - 01’36’’
4 - Red Sweet Tango (1984) - 03’36’’
5 - Villalbarosa (1987) - 04’27’’
6 - Nocturno (1992) - 11’12’’
Tempo total - 44’22’
