Program schedule
draft (v. 2025-05-06)
17/07/2025
Conservatório – Escola das Artes da Madeira
Reception | Opening; Sessions
18:00h Welcome by the institutional collaborators
18:30h Welcome Recital
19:00h Welcome-Cocktail
18/07/2025
Conservatório – Escola das Artes da Madeira
Morning: Sessions
Lunch (included)
Museu de História Natural
14:00h Visit | Presentation about Madeira and its unique natural characteristics | Workshop-I Earth Vibrations by artist Michelle Atherton (Sheffield Institute of Arts)
IVBAM
17:30h Visit to the musical instruments exhibition of art and handcraft from Madeira artisans at the ‘Institute of the Wine, Embroidery and Handicraft of Madeira’ (IVBAM) | Visit to João Henriques Workshop
18:00h ‘Madeira de honra’, a special event prepared for the participants, for the taste of the famous ‘vinho da Madeira’ / Recital with 19th-century music from Madeira, as a demonstration of a square piano repaired at the Workshop of João Henriques by Larysa da Costa (restorer; violin) and Judit Vig (piano) / Musical Moment by the group Otus Mauli
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19/07/2025
Funchal
Morning: Associação Xarabanda – visit to permanent exhibition of musical instruments and archive; Workshop (traditional idiophones) by José Camacho | Museu da Quinta das Cruzes – visit and Workshop-II Earth Vibrations by artist Michelle Atherton | Museu Frederico de Freitas – visit (piano collection)
Conservatório – Escola das Artes da Madeira
Lunch (included)
Afternoon: Sessions; Panel: The craft of musical instruments: restoration, construction, innovation and historically informed replicas
16:30h Recital by members from Associação Xarabanda (traditional music from Madeira)
Centro de Congressos
18:00h Concert by the Classical Orchestra of Madeira (Orquestra Clássica da Madeira)
20/07/2025
Conservatório – Escola das Artes da Madeira
Morning: Workshop on the rabab by Dr Thilo Hirsch (Switzerland, University of Bern/Erforschung von fellbespannten Streichinstrumenten des späten Mittelalters und der frühen Renaissance und deren Rekonstruktion); Sessions
Lunch (included)
Afternoon: Sessions
Centro de Congressos
18:00h Concert by the Conservatoire Orchestra
Dinner (not included)
Funchal
21:00h Concert Fabulae, jazz with Livio Minafra (piano) and Dario Doronzo (flugelhorn/trumpet)
21/07/2025
Conservatório – Escola das Artes da Madeira
Morning: Workshop of Jazz and Improvisation by Prof.s Livio Minafra and Dario Doronzo (Italy) and recital; Sessions; Panel: About the present times of artistical education
Lunch (included)
Convento de Santa Clara
14:00h visit | Demonstration of the historical organ and harmonium by Nelson Quintal
Igreja de S. João Evangelista (Colégio)
15:00h visit | Demonstration of the historical organ by Nelson Quintal
Sé do Funchal
15:30h visit | Demonstration of the historical organ by Nelson Quintal
Museu de Arte Sacra
16:00h visit (iconography)
Dinner (not included)
Funchal
21:00h Concert with Maestro and Composer Professor Dr Graham Hair and Scottish Voices
22/07/2025
Trip-1
Câmara de Lobos, Museu da Imprensa
Visit | Exhibition To the sound of cordophones by João Henriques | Local products tasting | Round-table: Music on the tracks of Artificial Intelligence | MadeiConcert
Ponta do Sol
Lunch
Salão Nobre da Câmara Municipal de Ponta do Sol
Round-table: Past, present and future of Organology | MadeiConcert with demonstration of the historical organ at the Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Luz
Calheta, MUDAS
Round-table: Music in simbiose (with other arts) | Concert Loudspeaker orchestra | MadeiConcert
Banquet-dinner (offered to registered active participants)
21:00h Concert Intrecci sonori, “Sound intricacies” of jazz with Livio Minafra (piano) and Dario Doronzo (flugelhorn/trumpet)
23/07/2025
Trip-2
Machico
Visit | MadeiConcert with the special participation from the ‘Tuna de Câmara de Machico’ orchestra, and demonstration of the historical organ at the Igreja Matriz
Lunch
Porto da Cruz, Santana, Miradouro, Porto Moniz
Visits to places of interest
Dinner
Calheta, MUDAS
21:00h Concert by legendary Pianist Martin Jones (UK)
Closing of the Congress ANIMUSIC 2025