Program schedule
v. 10/07/2025
17/07/2025
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Funchal
Conservatório – Escola das Artes da Madeira
15:00h Reception | Recepção
18:00h Welcome | Boas-vindas – Cocktail
18:30h Grand Opening Concert | Grande Concerto de Abertura do Congresso
John Kenny (carnyx, trombone, media)
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18/07/2025
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Funchal
Conservatório – Escola das Artes da Madeira
Session 1 | Sessão I
Chair | Coordenação: Patrícia Bastos
09:00h Cornets and trumpets: some acoustical comparisons
Arnold Myers
09:30h New roles, new acts: new instruments.
Benedikt Brilmayer
09:50h Sonic weapons in the 21st century
Éric Sauda
10:10h Exploration of Haken Audio's Continuum Fingerboard instrument
Russell Hoffman
10:40h Coffee break | Pausa para café
Session 2 | Sessão II
Chair | Coordenação: Pam Marshall
11:00h Voices from the manuscript: methodologies for composing acousmatic music based on early poetry
Edmund Hunt
11:20h Again in search of lost sounds: exhibiting the evolution of the Stradivari violin ‘Mond’ in the Gallery of Musical Instruments of the Conservatory of Turin
Karolina Tatar
11:40h The exhibition of performative objects as a network of memory practices: a rhizome of affects
Sergio Marcelo de los Santos
12:00h The revival of the European Rabab
Thilo Hirsch
12:30h Lunch | Almoço
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Museu de História Natural
14:00h [visit|a] Madeira – land and sea (about Madeira and its unique natural characteristics)
15:00h [workshop | vivência] Soil Séance Sessions: Listening to the ground I
Michelle Atherton
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Igreja de S. Pedro
16:00h [visit|a] Historic organ | Órgão histórico
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Instituto do Vinho, do Bordado e do Artesanato da Madeira - IVBAM
17:00h [visit|a] Musical instruments in the 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’ (Madeira wine)
[Musical Moment 1 | Momento Musical 1] Romantic Madeira (with 19th-century music from Madeira, as a demonstration of a square piano repaired at the Workshop of João Henriques by Larysa da Costa and Renato Lopes)
Larysa da Costa (violin) & Judit Vig (piano)
[Musical Moment 2 | Momento Musical 2]
Otus Mauli
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Funchal
Associação Xarabanda
09:00h [visit|a] Permanent exhibition of musical instruments and archive of a society dedicated to the traditional music of Madeira | [workshop | oficina] ‘Oficina do saber-fazer’ – Workshop of the know-how (building traditional idiophones with a hands-on experience)
José Camacho
Museu Quinta das Cruzes
10:00h [visit|a] To know one of the iconic places of Madeira, exploring natural sounds
[workshop | vivência] Soil Séance Sessions: Listening to the ground II
Michelle Atherton
Casa-Museu Frederico de Freitas
11:00h [visit|a] To know another iconic place in Madeira, with a collection of musical instruments
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Conservatório – Escola das Artes da Madeira
12:15h Lunch | Almoço
Session 3 | Sessão III
Chair | Coordenação: Mário Freitas
13:00h Traditional instruments from Madeira: similarities and originalities in the Portuguese context
Jorge Torres
13:20h Photography process used for the musical instruments from Madeira’s tradition
Rui Camacho
13:40h Making ‘Between hands & symphonies’
Henrique Teixeira
14:00 The electric braguinha – education, art and innovation with purpose
Luís França
14:30h Coffee break | Pausa para café
Session 4 | Sessão IV
Chair | Coordenação: Rui Camacho
15:00 [exhibition-presentations | exposição-apresentações] Musical instrument makers in Madeira | Luthiers madeirenses
15:30h [panel | painel] The craft of musical instruments: restoration, construction, innovation and historically informed replicas
16:30h [recital] Traditional music from Madeira
Associação Xarabanda: Lara Nunes & Pedro Gonçalves
Centro de Congressos
18:00h Concert
Classical Orchestra of Madeira (OCM-Orquestra Clássica da Madeira)
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20/07/2025
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Funchal
Conservatório – Escola das Artes da Madeira
Session 5 | Sessão V
Chair | Coordenação: Diane Thram
09:00h The primary structural constructions in the biological environment used to make musical instruments
Ovidiu Papana
09:30h ‘Bringing it all together’: sustaining the classical traditions in the age of the «War on Everything»
Graham Hair
09:50h Interdisciplinarity and technological innovation in the production of audio-visual Darnauchans: ‘Sobre la noche’
Marita Fonaro Bordolli & Víctor Cunha & Francisco Cunha
10:10h Miraculous measurements: a valedictory conclusion to a Scottish Voices journey with a colon in the title
Nick Bailey
10:30h Coffee break | Pausa para café
11:00h [workshop | demonstração e experimentação] The 'Cantigas de Santa Maria' to the sound of the rabab – History, playing methodologies, and cross-frontiers performance
Thilo Hirsch
12:00h Lunch | Almoço
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Session 6 | Sessão VI
Chair | Coordenação: Nick Bailey
13:00h The ukulele in Italy in the early 20th century: an organological and historical exploration through a 1930’s Mogar Ukulele
Davide Donelli & Giovanni Albini
13:20h Sonic landscapes of Croatian cinema: a world of diversity
Irena Paulus
13:40 Study and reconstruction of the 1640 Ioannes Ruckers Virginal in the Rijksmuseum
Manu Frederickx
14:00h Historically informed instrument making: re-creating a 1777 Salter and its Tuning Machines by Thomas Perry
Paul Fremantle
14:30h Coffee break | Pausa para café
Session 7 | Sessão VII
Chair | Coordenação: Catherine Ragland
15:00 Bridging two worlds: the harpsichord’s influence on piano sound and technique in children's music education and historically informed performance
Vendula Nosková
15:30h [recital] Quadros e caprichos: Schumann e Rachmaninov
Robert Andres & Honor O’Hea (piano four hands | piano a quatro mãos)
16:00h [panel | painel] About the present times of artistical education
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Centro de Congressos
18:00h Concert
Conservatoire Orchestra
Assembleia Legislativa, Salão Nobre (Noble Hall)
21:00h Concert 'Fabulae' (jazz)
Livio Minafra (piano) & Dario Doronzo (flugelhorn/trumpet)
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21/07/2025
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Funchal
Conservatório – Escola das Artes da Madeira
Session 8 | Sessão VIII
Chair | Coordenação: Arnold Myers
09:00h [lecture-demonstration and performance] Artistic imagery, symbolism, and cryptograms in piano repertoire as analyzed in Robert Schumann’s Carnaval Op. 9 ‘Scènes mignones sur quatre notes’
Mira Kruja
09:30h ‘Harmonium’: Exhibition and museological mediation of an endangered musical and liturgical heritage
Martinho Mendes
09:50h Curiosity of the senses – a project
Léo Sauda
10:10h Sounds in the seas – human practices towards natural environment understanding and respect
Patricia Bastos
10:30h Coffee break | Pausa para café
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11:00h [workshop | masterclass] Jazz improvisation with improvised instruments – mixing from early history to electronics
Livio Minafra & Dario Doronzo
12:00 [recital] Improvised jazzying by all participating at the workshop
12:30h Lunch | Almoço
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Convento de Santa Clara
14:00h [visit|a] Historic organ and harmonium - demonstration and improvisation | Órgão histórico e harmónio - demonstração e improvisação
Nelson Quintal
Igreja de S. João Evangelista (Colégio)
15:00h [visit|a] Historic organ - demonstration and improvisation | Órgão histórico - demonstração e improvisação
Nelson Quintal
Sé do Funchal
15:30h [visit|a] Historic organ - demonstration and improvisation | Órgão histórico - demonstração e improvisação
Nelson Quintal
Museu de Arte Sacra
16:00h [visit|a] Finding iconographic treasures
Assembleia Legislativa, Salão Nobre (Noble Hall)
21:00h Concert Crossing musical frontiers
Graham Hair (maestro, composer) & Scottish Voices (voices, piano)
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22/07/2025
Câmara de Lobos
Trip-1 [transportation provided]
Museu da Imprensa
[visit|a] An impressive collection of engineering and craftsmanship dedicated to the press machinery
09:15h [exhibition of musical instruments | exposição de instrumentos musicais] Ao som dos cordofones - To the sound of chordophones
João Henriques
[exhibition of photography | exposição de fotografia] Entre mãos & sinfonias - Between hands & symphonies
Henrique Teixeira
10:00h [round-table | mesa-redonda] Music on the tracks of Artificial Intelligence
Henriques & Henriques
10:45h Madeira com Honra (visit to an emblematic producer not to miss)
11:15h MadeiConcert
ANIMUSIC participants
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Ponta do Sol
Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Luz
12:00h MadeiConcert with demonstration of the historical organ at the Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Luz
ANIMUSIC participants
13:00h Lunch | Almoço
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Nobre da Câmara Municipal de Ponta do Sol
14:00h [round-table | mesa-redonda] Past, present and future of Organology
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Calheta
Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Madeira - MUDAS
[visit|a] Art collection
15:30h MadeiConcert
ANIMUSIC participants
16:00h [round-table | mesa-redonda] Music in simbiose
17:00h [recital-demo] Experiencing the Haken Audio's Continuum Fingerboard
Russell Hoffman
18:30h Cocktail & Banquet-dinner at the Magnolia Contemporary Bar & Restaurant
21:00h Concert Intrecci sonori – Sound intricacies (jazz)
Livio Minafra (piano) & Dario Doronzo (flugelhorn/trumpet)
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23/07/2025
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Machico
Trip-2 [transportation provided]
Visits to places of interest
12:00h MadeiConcert with demonstration of the historical organ at the Igreja Matriz
ANIMUSIC participants & Tuna de Câmara de Machico
13:00h Lunch | Almoço
Porto da Cruz, Santana, Miradouro, Porto Moniz, Calheta
Visits to places of interest
19:00h Dinner | Jantar (free | livre)
Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Madeira - MUDAS
21:00h Grand Closing Concert -Transcendental Piano
Martin Jones (piano)
Closing of the Congress ANIMUSIC 2025