{"id":13093,"date":"2022-01-07T14:59:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T14:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=13093"},"modified":"2022-01-07T14:59:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T14:59:07","slug":"musician-of-the-month-hugo-vasco-reis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2022\/01\/07\/musician-of-the-month-hugo-vasco-reis\/","title":{"rendered":"Musician of the Month: Hugo Vasco Reis"},"content":{"rendered":"

The process of discovering sounds has always been an aspect of music I’ve been connected to, even when I wasn’t aware of its potential and possibilities. During childhood and adolescence, I experimented with instruments, recorded and improvised. It was a somewhat chaotic, intuitive process without pretensions.<\/span><\/p>\n

In my early teens my parents offered me a classical guitar and a few weeks later a friend lent me an electric one. With these instruments, my conscious interest in music really began. I mostly listened to heavy metal bands.<\/p>\n

I began subscribing to guitar magazines, mainly from Germany and the United States, with exercises by Steve Vai and Joe Satriani, and spent hours listening to the solos of Metallica and other bands I liked.<\/p>\n

When I went to university to study civil engineering in Porto, Portugal, in addition to academic studies, I attended to the Porto Jazz School (electric guitar) and later the Conservatory of Music of Porto (Portuguese guitar – the instrument I play currently).<\/p>\n

I completed the civil engineering course and worked for seven years in this sector. During this period, I was always connected to music, but the time came when I decided to reduce my engineering activity and dedicate myself fully to music.<\/p>\n

I wanted to deepen my knowledge in composition. So I moved from Porto to Lisbon to study composition at the Escola Superior de M\u00fasica de Lisboa. During this time, I studied contemporary music during the day, and played Portuguese guitar in Fado houses at night. The musical scope was very wide, as these two musical universes have many differences. Sometimes I had difficulty dealing with it but on the other hand it was also an effective way of not being absorbed in the same music all the time.<\/p>\n

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After that I studied for a Master in composition in Switzerland with Isabel Mundry at the Zurich University of Arts, with a scholarship from the Fondation Nicati-de Luze, and in Germany with Stefan Prins and Mark Andr\u00e9 at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden.<\/p>\n

I also had private classes and masterclasses with composers Toshio Hosokawa, Chaya Czernowin, Hans Tutschku, Dieter Ammann, Franck Bedrossian, Zigmunt Krauze, \u00c5ke Parmerud, Carola Bauckholt, Klaus Lang, Peter Ablinger, among others.<\/p>\n

During my studies in composition, I investigated different forms of musical creation, their relationship with other arts, and had my works performed. It was a new and exciting world.<\/p>\n

Currently, I\u2019m working on contemporary music daily and methodically, which implies research, listening, reading and trans-disciplinarity. I’m based in Zurich (Switzerland) and Porto (Portugal), and travelling regularly around Europe to collaborate with musicians, ensembles, fine and visual artists performing and recording my works. I\u2019m also researching on surrounding sounds: from figuration to deformation.<\/p>\n

Website: www.hugovascoreis.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/hugo_vasco_reis\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Bandcamp: https:\/\/hugovascoreis.bandcamp.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Cover artwork by Yari Ostovany<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

About New Album: \u201cVoices and Landscapes\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cVoices and Landscapes\u201d is an album that includes five works, composed for different instrumentations, in which the voice is the common element, present in all the pieces.<\/p>\n

The central theme of this album is the landscape, which led me to research diversified sounds ranging from nature to urban places, totally shaped by human action. I was also influenced by poems by Antero de Quental and Fernando Pessoa<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

The work was supported by Ministry of Culture of Portugal, DGArtes, SPAutores and Antena 2 (Portuguese classical radio).<\/p>\n

Programme Notes<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2018Some Lines Mixing a Color\u2019<\/p>\n

for soprano, saxophone, accordion, viola and violoncello<\/p>\n

performed by S\u00edntese GMC<\/p>\n

\u2018Some Lines Mixing a Color\u2019 is a work that started from a photograph taken by the composer during a rigorous winter day, where the dense fog covered the shapes of nature. This piece addresses the influence of the invisible in relation to the human perception of the image. By mediating the image with the sound, dense lines and random structures were created, that coexist in the same space with fine lines and organized sound material, leading perception and memory to different places, in a dialogue of counterpoint, gestures, intuition and events, which shape time and form.<\/p>\n

listen here: https:\/\/hugovascoreis.bandcamp.com\/track\/some-lines-mixing-a-color<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Fernando Pessoa em pintura de Bottelho<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018Paisagens, Quero-as Comigo\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

for flute, clarinet, percussion, harp, piano, mezzo-soprano, violin, viola and violoncello<\/p>\n

Performed by Grupo de M\u00fasica Contempor\u00e2nea de Lisboa<\/p>\n

Conducted by Pedro Neves<\/p>\n

Based on the poem \u2018Paisagens, Quero-as Comigo<\/em>\u2019 by Fernando Pessoa<\/span><\/a>, this is a work composed for an ensemble of nine musicians. \u201cLandscapes, I want them with me \/ Landscapes, pictures that are… \/ Waving wheat laurel, \/ Sun beacons that I follow, \/ Bad sky, reeds, solitude… \/ Some by the hand of God, \/ Others by the hands of fairies, \/ Others by chance of mine, \/ Others by memories given… \/ Landscapes… Memories, \/ Because even what you see \/ With first impressions \/ At some point was what it is, \/ In the cycle of sensations. \/ Landscapes… Anyway, the content \/ Of what is here is the street \/ Where the good sun of torpor \/ That insinuates in my soul \/ I don’t see anything better.\u201d by Fernando Pessoa<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

listen here<\/p>\n

https:\/\/hugovascoreis.bandcamp.com\/track\/paisagens-quero-as-comigo<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Richard Zenith's new biography of Fernando Pessoa brings to life a Portuguese poet whose extraordinary capacity for invention still offers an essential message.https:\/\/t.co\/Zwm6zPawfO<\/a>@broadsheet_ie<\/a> @AllenLaneBooks<\/a> @BowesChay<\/a> @paddycosgrave<\/a> @EwanMacKenna<\/a> @danieleidiniph1<\/a>#Pessoa<\/a><\/p>\n

— CassandraVoices (@VoicesCassandra) October 21, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n