Residência Artística Helga Arias & Ensemble DME
Helga Arias & Ensemble DME - Residência Artística
17 a 21 de Novembro de 2025 | Lisboa Incomum
A compositora Helga Arias estará em residência artística no Lisboa Incomum, onde desenvolverá uma nova criação para o Ensemble DME (quarteto de cordas).
Numa parceria com o Prémio Jovens Músicos, contamos com a participação da violinista Laura Peres, vencedora do primeiro prémio, nível superior, na edição de 2024 do Prémio Jovens Músicos.
A residência culminará no concerto de abertura do Cultura & Sustentabilidade, que terá lugar no dia 21 de novembro, às 21h, no Lisboa Incomum.
Entrada gratuita mediante preenchimento do formulário de inscrição.
Programa
Boris Loginov: Sleep during Insomnia
Paulo Ferreira-Lopes: String Quartet n.º 2*
Mariana Vieira: Quarteto de Cordas
Helga Arias: Nova peça*
* Estreia absoluta - Encomenda DME
Helga Arias
Between 2014 and 2016 she continued her education in Austria thanks to a full scholarship of the SGAE (Spanish General Society for authors and publishers) with Beat Furrer (Kuntsuniversität Graz) and Karlheinz Essl (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien), obtaining both a Postgrad in Composition and in Computer Music with the highest marks.
Besides, she has received individual lessons from other composers such as Michael Jarrell, Kaija Saariaho, J.B. Barrière, Georg Friedrich Haas, Pierluigi Billone, Isabel Mundry, Mark André, Toshio Hosokawa, Chaya Czernowin or Alberto Posadas among others and participated in masterclasses with Helmuth Lachenmann, Wolfgang Rihm, Philippe Manoury, José María Sánchez Verdú, Trevor Wishart or Daniel Teruggi.
She has been awarded in the international contest “Città di Udine”, the RCSM Victoria Eugenia de Granada contest for Symphonic Orchestra, the shut up and listen! Electroacustic festival in Vienna, Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik Competition 2014, the honorary prize of the Colegio de España en Paris – INAEM 2016, the 2nd prize at the ACC International Composer's Competition (South Korea) or the 3rd prize at the Asia Pacific Saxophone Composition Competition.
Her music has been performed in several festivals and music halls around the world, such as the Fundacion BBVA, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Manifeste Paris, Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, EMUFEST Rome, Klangwerkstatt Berlin, Festival Mixtur in Barcelona, Foro Internacional de Musica Nueva (Mexico), Domaine Forget (Canada), Echoraum Vienna, Experimentalstudio Academy of the SWR Freiburg, 3rd Forum for Young Composers in Cascais (Portugal), SCM 2017 Helsinki, ICMC 2017 Shangai, ISCM World Music Days in Tongyeong (South Korea), ZKM Karlsruhe (Germany), Musikfestival Bern, Sonic Matter Festival (Zurich), Philarmonie Luxembourg by ensembles such as International Contemporary Ensemble, Neue Vocalsolisten Sttutgart, Ensemble Inercontemporain, Ensemble SurPlus, International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA), Ensemble Vortex, Sigma Project, Trio Feedback, Espai Sonor, Ensemble d’arts, The Riot Ensemble, Vertixe Sonora, Nouvelle Ensemble Moderne, ECCE ensemble, Taller Sonoro, Ensemble Cepromusic, and many others.
In 2020/21 she was artist in residency by the International Contemporary Ensemble and composer in residence as part of an intermediation Project of the University of Heidelberg, the Bundesakademie Trossingen and the Donaueschinger Musiktagen.
She is currently a PhD candidate at the Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität Linz (Austria).
Her work establishes relations between acoustic and electronic resonance and explores the microscopical variations of the sound phenomena. In most recent pieces, she also includes subtle theatrical aspects, collaborative processes and immersive interactions. Her music is edited by Babel Scores.
She lives and teaches in Switzerland.
www.helgaarias.com
Ensemble DME
Mais recentemente, o ensemble tem realizado projectos multidisciplinares, onde se destaca a estreia do espetáculo “Geometrias do Inelidível”, de Jaime Reis, produzido pela EMSCAN em 2022, o concerto co-organizado com o Instituto Italiano de Cultura de Lisboa, “Esplorazioni”, dedicado à relação entre espaço e som, com o compositor e maestro italiano Valerio Sannicandro, assim como colaborações com o Centro de Arte Moderna da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian em torno de Iannis Xenakis e Mieko Shiomi, uma das fundadoras do movimento Fluxus.
O ensemble tem tocado em vários palcos e festivais, incluíndo a Logos Foundation (Ghent, Bélgica), Palladium (Malmö, Sweden), digressões no Brasil (2015, 2023), Auditorio Santa María (Plasencia, Espanha), Casa da Música (Porto), Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisboa), Palácio Foz (Lisboa), o Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (Lisboa), e o Loop Festival (Bruxelas, Bélgica).
Desenvolve ainda vários projectos didáticos e pedagógicos com o intuito de se aproximar das camadas mais jovens de artistas, proporcionando experiências formativas em contexto performativo, oportunidades de criação colaborativa e contacto directo com a linguagem e estética da música contemporânea.