FEBRUARY 2020
STACCATO NEWS SCHERZO EDITIONS' NEWSLETTER
February, Month of the Youth This month, Scherzo Editions has two great news: our most recent house composer, the young Eduarda Ferreira join our catalogue and a new staff member, Ana Catarina Barros. What a month!
What happened last month:
Published Works - 2 New Composers - 3 Arts Corner - 4
The young Eduarda Ferreira opened Scherzo Editions' year as the new House Composer. She is a determined university student with strong
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objectives for her career. Read more about her on page 3. Ana Catarina is a young composer as well, from Braga. She has a Master in Ethnomusicology and Music Education - Composition, she also plays the flute, teaches harmony and music education. Ana Catarina will be working with us for the next months and is excited to
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join the publishing business world. Scherzo Editions welcomes her in such a busy moment! We are looking forward to release the works for the Prémio Jovens Músicos Competition next month and start new projects/partnerships.
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Published Works | January Imagens Eduarda Ferreira
Imagens consists on 3 movements. Every single one of them has rhythmic ideas and common melodies, relating them to each other, as the contrast in dynamics, diverse articulations,
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melodies divided by vocal ranges, etc. Throughout the pieces, there are metric alternations, making us listen melodic and harmonic fragments with fast character shifts. The compositional process used was the Pitch Class, with intervals of minor seconds and augmented fourths [0, 1, 6].
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New Composers
Eduarda Ferreira began her musical studies at the Sociedade Artística Musical Fafense – Banda de Golães at the age of seven. Later, she entered the trumpet class at the Academia de Música José Atalaya, finishing the Music Education course in 2019. She currently attends the Bachelor in Choral Conducting and Music Education at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa. Throughout her academic studies, she performed on several solo, chamber music, choir and orchestra concerts. Eduarda started her composition career at the age of 15, writing works for diverse instrumental groups such as trio, quartet, choir, symphony and wind orchestra. In 2017, she won an Honorable Mention on the “4º Concurso de Composição de Canções para Crianças” (4th Composition Competition of Children’s Songs), organized by the Portuguese Association of Music Education (APEM), with the work “O relógio de sala”. In 2019, she won the 1st Prize on the 10th Edition of the “Prémio de Composição Século XXI” (21st Century Composition Award) with the work “Imagens”. Also in 2019, she published “Encanto” and “Popular a cappella” with Arpejo Editora and started the project “Criar que som tem?”, in collaboration with APEM. Furthermore, she participated in the XI and XIII National Meeting of APEM and the “Ação Formação – Kodály” with Sarolta Plátthy, organized by APEM.
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Arts Corner
Bec Auer (1896) | Lithograph Artist: Henri Privat-Livemont (Belgian, 1861-1936) Publisher: Goffart Litographe (Bruxelles)
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