António Chagas Rosa (1960- )
Composer
António Chagas Rosa was born in Lisbon, Portugal. He took the Higher
Piano Course at the National Conservatory of Lisbon and holds a
degree in History from the New Univesity of Lisbon. He was
awarded a scholarship by the Gulbenkian Foundation, and attended a
post-graduate course in 20th century chamber music and piano at the
Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam, and on a scholarship from the
Secretariat of State for Culture he took his Master's in Composition at
the Rotterdam Conservatory. He worked as
conductor/répétiteur at the Amsterdam Muziektheater, and taught at the
Sweelinck Conservatory. He has written symphonic,
chamber and vocal music, and has been commissioned by institutions both
in Portugal and abroad. Since 1986, António Chagas Rosa has been an
invited assistant teacher of chamber music at the Department of
Communication and Art at the University of Aveiro. In the words of the
composer, "I like some [of my] works better than others, because there are
some in which I see too much effort. They are all important steps,
but there are some works from which, apart from this, I receive feedback,
which is to hear them as if they weren't composed by me." ..."Sometimes I need
to hear things I've done in order to learn from them, because the
experience of a première is too rapid and volatile an experience. One
is tense, and the concert passes. Therefore, a recording is very
important in order to learn what one did well, what one did badly and,
above all, to find those moments of harmony between intellect and
instinct, the fusion between the poetic world and the formal realization
of it." COMPOSITIONS Rosa Links ~ ~ ~ Works by Genre
Sonata for Piano, piano (1987)
Tres Gacelas, mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra (1988-89)
Meghasandesham, string quartet and harpsichord (1989-90)
Antinous, orchestra and string quartet (1990-92)
Songs of the Beginning, soprano and piano (1992)
Cânticos para a Remissão da Fome (Canticles for the Remission of Hunger), chamber opera in 6 scenes (1992-94)
Angkor, viola and piano (1994-95)
Piano Concerto (1994-95) [A Ascensão de Ícaro]
O Céu sob as Entranhas, baritone and piano trio (1996)
Sept Épigrammes de Platon, cycle of 7 songs, soprano and piano (1997)
Afonso Domingues, song cycle, tenor and piano (1994-97)
3 Consolations, recorder and chamber orchestra (1997-98)
Moh, chamber orchestra (1998)
Four Cartoons, prepared marimba (1999)
Non Altro, tenor, piano and tape (1999)
Altro, piccolo and piano (2000)
What the Mountain and the Afternoon Said, piano (2000)
Melodias Estranhas, chamber opera in 3 acts (2000-01)
Quatrains du Secret Estude, chorus (2002)
... pour les temps glissants..., bass clarinet, violin, viola and cello (2002)
Zwei Kleinbauernlieder, tenor and piano (2002)
Deep Water Music, 4 percussionists (2002)
Naishapur, song cycle, baritone, percussion and piano (2003)
O Céu Sob as Entranhas, baritone, violin, cello and piano (2004)
Cicuta, Lieder, voice and piano (2005)
A Boca, bassoon (2006)
As Feiticeiras (The Witches), 10 voices, harp, percussion, horn and trombone (2006)
String Quartet No. 1 (2007)
Cassandra's Songs, [ensemble?] (2008)
Marés de Moçambique, [percussion] (fp 2009)
WORKS BY GENRE Rosa Links ~ top of page ~
Dramatic/Theater
Cânticos para a Remissão da Fome (Canticles for the Remission of Hunger), chamber opera in 6 scenes (1992-94)
Melodias Estranhas, chamber opera in 3 acts (2000-01)
Orchestra
Antinous, orchestra and string quartet (1990-92)
Moh, chamber orchestra (1998)
Soloist(s) w/Orchestra
Piano Concerto (1994-95) [A Ascensão de Ícaro]
3 Consolations, recorder and chamber orchestra (1997-98)
Choral
Quatrains du Secret Estude, chorus (2002)
As Feiticeiras (The Witches), 10 voices, harp, percussion, horn and trombone (2006)
Chamber
Meghasandesham, string quartet and harpsichord (1989-90)
... pour les temps glissants..., bass clarinet, violin, viola and cello (2002)
Deep Water Music, 4 percussionists (2002)
String Quartet No. 1 (2007)
Cassandra's Songs, [ensemble?] (2008)
Marés de Moçambique, [percussion] (fp 2009)
Solo Instrument
Angkor, viola and piano (1994-95)
Four Cartoons, prepared marimba (1999)
Altro, piccolo and piano (2000)
A Boca, bassoon (2006)
Piano
Sonata for Piano, piano (1987)
What the Mountain and the Afternoon Said, piano (2000)
Vocal
Tres Gacelas, mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra (1988-89)
Songs of the Beginning, soprano and piano (1992)
O Céu sob as Entranhas, baritone and piano trio (1996)
Sept Épigrammes de Platon, cycle of 7 songs, soprano and piano (1997)
Afonso Domingues, song cycle, tenor and piano (1994-97)
Non Altro, tenor, piano and tape (1999)
Zwei Kleinbauernlieder, tenor and piano (2002)
Naishapur, song cycle, baritone, percussion and piano (2003)
O Céu Sob as Entranhas, baritone, violin, cello and piano (2004)
Cicuta, Lieder, voice and piano (2005)
As Feiticeiras (The Witches), 10 voices, harp, percussion, horn and trombone (2006)
ROSA LINKS Works by Genre ~ top of page ~
António Chagas Rosa, a Devil of a Composer (resmusica.com)
Interpretive Dialogues I. At the Summit (Paco Yanez, mundoclasico.com)
Composer website (@ Centro de Informação da Música Portuguesa/Portuguese Music Information Centre)
Rosa @ Wikipedia
Rosa @ ATRIUM
Rosa @ Classical Composers Database
Rosa @ eauderose.net
Rosa @ INET-md/Ethnomusicology Institute - Research Center in Music and Dance
Rosa @ jesuits-europe.info
Rosa @ operone.de
Rosa @ O.T. Theater Rotterdam
Rosa @ Portuguese Music
Rosa @ quarteto remix
Rosa @ Universidade de Aveiro
Streaming Audio
Rosa @ antoniocarrilho.com
Recordings
Rosa @ Presto Classical
Rosa @ YouTube
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