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ALEXANDRE SOARES

2020 Portugal Performance 50 '

At the invitation of the Family Film Project, Alexandre Soares presents a concert compose by musical themes that somehow reflect the career of the musician and composer. The concert mixes archival music with unreleased themes. From collaborations with choreographer Né Barros, who between 1999-2017 composed music for fourteen shows, to the archive of sounds never shared, through compositions from the most experimental domain, the program constitutes a privileged moment to listen and remember an artist with a unique work. With Angélica Salvi (Harp) and Pedro Oliveira (Percussion)

biografia

Co-founder of the GNR group as a composer and guitarist, Soares started his recording career in 1980. In 1988 he released his only solo album, Projecto Global. In 1990 he was responsible for the musical composition for the play Fool for Love by Sam Shepard. In 1993 he collaborated on the Zero project with which he recorded the debut album. At Fundacion La Caixa Barcelona's La Imagen Frágil exhibition, he produced a sound intervention in the installation Señor Estupor by Javier Dias. It was also in 1993 that he had his first connection to the Três Tristes Tigres group on the album Parte Sensíveis, and in the collection of themes by António Variações with Anjinho da Guarda. The integration of the Três Tristes Tigres resulted in the albums Spiritual Guide, Common and Minima Light. He was considered a Portuguese composer of the year in 1998 by the portuguese newspaper Público. He scored Sapatos Pretos by João Canijo and was invited by the Teatro Nacional S. João to compose the original music of Buenas Noches, Mi Amor, a video-musical device with texts by Al Berto read by João Reis, taking place in February 1999. He took to the stages of CCB and Rivoli, with the Três Tristes Tigres, the show Ferida Consentida, based on the book a kiss given later, by Maria Gabriela Llansol. Since 1999 he collaborates with the choreographer Né Barros, for whom she composed the songs for Vooum, No Fly Zone, exo, Vaga, Dia Maior, Background, Free Sheet, Story Case, A Praça, Estrangeiros, Landing, Sol Subterrâneo, Citânia. Citânia e Muros.

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