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PRESS REVIEWS
Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble
“1st Forum for Young Composers by the Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble” review by Álvaro García de Zúñiga at New Music Review Lounge
"... a performance with ferocious panache by the Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble."
in The Times, 07/2010, London
" Frances Lynch's rendering [of (ThS)inking Survival Kit by Miguel Azguime] - ... was a tour de force and the playing of the Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble under Jean-Sébastien Béreau impressive."
in The Evening Standard, 07/2010, London
in The Evening Standard, July 2010, London
“(...) the Sond’Ar-te Ensemble concert was outstanding. This “group” (...) established by Miguel Azguime and directed by Pedro Amaral, makes “mixed” music, combining digital and electronic means with exceptional instrumentalists from the “classic” tradition. The Sond’Ar-te concert was (...) one of Música Viva’s highest points.”
Pedro Boléo, in Público, 28/09/2008, Lisbon
“With the confidence of their performance, their commitment and the musicians’ outstanding technical level, Sond’Ar-te has conquered. Pedro Amaral’s direction was distinct, clear and effective.
…We wish that Sond’Ar-te becomes an European reference in the domain of contemporary music.”
Diana Ferreira, in Público, 20/09/2007, Lisbon
Soloists of the Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble: clarinet and electronics
“At the concert Nuno Pinto's clarinet glittered during Miguel Azguime's and Steve Reich's works”
Pedro Boléo, in Público, 27/09/2010, Lisbon
“The technical arsenal of Nuno Pinto is unquestionable: on the level of major international virtuosos of the instrument.”
Bernardo Mariano, in Notícias Sábado, 17/04/2010, Lisbon
“Nuno Pinto showing an excellent instrumental technique.”
Monika Pasiecznik, in Dwutygodnik, 27/09/2009, Warsaw
Soloists of the Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble: piano and electronics
"Ana Telles is a grand pianist. [...] With splendid preparation and refined knowledge on the performed music, she gave the audience four intensive and valuable moments at the auditorium of the Franco-Portuguese Institute in Lisbon.
Her way of playing does not submit itself to standardized production, impoverished language of some contemporary music. Her interpretation has never been reductive, but always responsive towards the composers' "languages" and never minimizing them to only one form of expression or one "style". Ana Telles did not follow only the first impression - she made a through investigation into the basis of issues raised by the works, in search for depth, dynamics, certain attacks and gestures demanded by the scores - and she found them.
[...] Stretching or squeezing the time, "In tempore" [by João Pedro Oliveira] opens with a puzzle, through which the interpreter went and then developed with great precision and sensibility.
There are small events, which are particulary precious. That was the case of the concert at stake, with a superb contemporary music programme and strict attacks by Ana Telles, a brilliant pianist."
Pedro Boléo, in Público, 05/2009, Lisbon
"Shy, but spectacular, she [Ana Telles] took the piano to another level, interacting sovereignly with the computer sounds."
in Público, 06/2009, Lisbon
