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