Patrícia Sucena de Almeida

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Patrícia Sucena de Almeida (1972) studied Electroacoustic Music and Composition with the Portuguese composer Joao Pedro Oliveira at the University of Aveiro (Portugal) and in 1997 she finished her degree in Music Teaching. In 1998 she graduated with a master’s degree in Composition from Edinburgh's University, as a scholarship student of “Fundacao Para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia do Ministerio da Educacao - Portugal, no ambito do 2o Quadro Comunitario de Apoio”. That same year she started a doctorate program (still as a scholarship student) in Composition at City University of London and in 2000 she continued her composition studies at Southampton University with the British composer Michael Finnissy, finishing her PhD in 2004.


Her portfolio includes some of the following pieces: Solitudo (1999) (performed at “The International Gaudeamus Music Week 2001”, Amsterdam): Argumentum (2001)(performed at “Porto 2001 - Capital Europeia da Cultura”): Transfiguratio (2002) (worked out during the workshop of “Cours du Centre Acanthes 2002”, Villeneuve-les-Avignon): Mens Sana in Corpore Sano (2003/2005) (orchestral version performed at the III Gulbenkian’s workshop for Portuguese Young Composers, Lisbon, 2004): Monstrum Horrendum (2003/2004) (orchestral version performed at the II Gulbenkian’s workshop for Portuguese Young Composers, Lisbon, 2003): Fatum Hominis (2005) (selected for the “ISCM world Music Days/23rd Music Biennale Zagreb 2005”, and performed at “Ny Musikk 2005”, Oslo): Silens Clamor (2004) (commissioned by the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse de Lyon for the “Académie de Chambre Contemporaine Jeunesse Moderne 2004”, performed at "Musica 2007", Strasbourg, and at "Futuros 1.2", Lisbon, 2008): Dulce Delirium (2005) (performed by the Arditti Quartet at the “Centre Acanthes 2005”, Metz, at the "Atlantic Waves 2006", London, at the "Festival Internacional de Aveiro and Lisbon, 2007): Fati Necessitas (2005) (commissioned and performed by the Contemporary Music Ensemble of Lisbon, Matosinhos, 2006, and at the "IX Semana Cultural da Universidade de Coimbra”, 2007): Aranea (2006) (commissioned and performed at the “Festival Música Viva 2006”, Lisbon, and at the "XXVI Festival de Música de Leiria", 2008): Nocturna Itinera (2008) (performed at the "44th International Summer Courses for New Music", Darmstadt, 2008, and at the "2nd Blonay Workshop for Contemporary Quartet Music 2008"): In Occulto (2009) (performed at "Ciclos de Concertos Momentum”, Aveiro, 2009, at the "New Music Festival (Transit 2009)", Leuven, 2009 and at the "Concert Series", City University, London, 2010): Sublime Volans (2010) (performed at the "25o aniversário da Miso Music Portugal", Instituto Franco-Portugués, Lisbon, 2010, at the "Fórum Internacional Jovens Compositores", Goethe-Institut, Lisbon, 2011, at the Korea Foundation – Cultural Center Gallery, 2011, and at "Guimara?es Capital Europeia da Cultura 2012"): Reditus ad vitam (2012) (performed at “Do Virtuosismo pianístico de Liszt à multi(n)disciplina do século XXI”, Coimbra, 2013).

She has participated at the “IRCAM`s Académies d’éte?, the “40th Internationalen Ferenkursen fur Neue Musik – 2000 and 2007” in Darmstadt: the “Cours du Centre Acanthes 2002 and 2003 at the Chartreuse de Villeneuve les-Avignon and 2004 and 2005 in Metz: the I, II, III and IV Gulbenkian's Workshop for Portuguese Young Composers and a number of other seminars and workshops with composers such as Emmanuel Nunes, Jonathan Harvey, Luca Francesconi, Hilda Paredes, Gérard Grisey, Brian Ferneyhough, Pascal Dusapin, Luc Brewaeys: experimental workshops and concerts with the Arditti Quartet, the pianist Ian Pace,Yutaka Oya and Filip Fak, Orquestra Gulbenkian, Grupo de Música Contemporánea de Lisboa, Orchestre lyrique de Région Avignon – Provence, L'Ensemble Itinéraire, Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble, Remix Ensemble, OrchestrUtopica, Ensemble Studio New Music: and conductors like Sylvio Gualda, Sarah Ioannides, Igor Dronov, Christopher Bochmann, Guillaume Bourgogne, Pedro Neves, Pedro Amaral.

Featured Pieces

for ensemble (photography and film)

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String Quartet Nocturna itinera, sum in magna animi perturbatione...

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Instrument Solo


Oscillum #1 Lux oculos eius vulneravit - a luz feriu-lhe os olhos - para flauta, texto e cenário (2023)
Reditus ad vitam for piano (dancers/scenario or film) (2012)
In occulto for piano (actor/scenario) (2009)
Fatum Hominis for Piano (actors/scenario) (2004)

Musique Instrumentale


Oscillum #1 Lux oculos eius vulneravit - a luz feriu-lhe os olhos - para flauta, texto e cenário (2023)
Augurium #1 As suas asas estão quebradas. Alae (eius) fractae sunt (2022)
Ludi Aeterni for duo (piano and flute) theatrical scenery, performance and film (2021)
Imaginis umbra est lacrimis turbauit aquas, obscuraque motto reddita forma lacu est for guitar(s) and voice(s) (scenario) (2019)
Desperatio ‘Je connais le désespoir dans ses grandes lignes’ for piano (film) (2018)
Instabile Tempus for ensemble (and recorded voices) (2016)
Reditus ad vitam for piano (dancers/scenario or film) (2012)
In occulto for piano (actor/scenario) (2009)
Nocturna Itinera String Quartet Nocturna itinera, sum in magna animi perturbatione... (2008)
Res Adversae for orchestra (2006)
Dulce delirium String Quartet En Hommage à Ophélie (2005)
Silens Clamor orchestra version (actors/dancers/scenario) (2005)
Monstrum Horrendum for orchestra (actor/scenario) (2004)
Mens Sana in Corpore Sano for orchestra (actors/scenario) (2004)
Mens Sana in Corpore Sano ensemble version (actors/scenario) (2004)
Monstrum Horrendum ensemble version (actor/scenario) (2004)
Fatum Hominis for Piano (actors/scenario) (2004)

Musique Orchestrale


Ludi Aeterni for duo (piano and flute) theatrical scenery, performance and film (2021)
Monstrum Horrendum for orchestra (actor/scenario) (2004)
Mens Sana in Corpore Sano for orchestra (actors/scenario) (2004)

Musique et Vidéo


Vacuum Corporis hominem te esse memento for two pianos (film) (2016)

Ensemble de Chambre (5 - 9 instruments)


Sublime volans For Flute, Clarinet Violin, Cello and Piano (2010)

Musique et Scène


Vacuum Corporis hominem te esse memento for two pianos (film) (2016)
Tempus fugit for ensemble (photography and film) (2010)
Aranea for ensemble (and film) (2006)
Silens Clamor for ensemble (actors/dancers/scenario) (2004)

Quatuor à Cordes


Nocturna Itinera String Quartet Nocturna itinera, sum in magna animi perturbatione... (2008)
Dulce delirium String Quartet En Hommage à Ophélie (2005)

Ensemble (10 - 19 instruments)


Res Adversae for orchestra (2006)

Musique et Danse


Silens Clamor for ensemble (actors/dancers/scenario) (2004)
Aranea for ensemble (and film) (2006)
Augurium #1 As suas asas estão quebradas. Alae (eius) fractae sunt (2022)
Desperatio ‘Je connais le désespoir dans ses grandes lignes’ for piano (film) (2018)
Dulce delirium String Quartet En Hommage à Ophélie (2005)
Fatum Hominis for Piano (actors/scenario) (2004)
Imaginis umbra est lacrimis turbauit aquas, obscuraque motto reddita forma lacu est for guitar(s) and voice(s) (scenario) (2019)
In occulto for piano (actor/scenario) (2009)
Instabile Tempus for ensemble (and recorded voices) (2016)
Ludi Aeterni for duo (piano and flute) theatrical scenery, performance and film (2021)
Mens Sana in Corpore Sano ensemble version (actors/scenario) (2004)
Mens Sana in Corpore Sano for orchestra (actors/scenario) (2004)
Monstrum Horrendum ensemble version (actor/scenario) (2004)
Monstrum Horrendum for orchestra (actor/scenario) (2004)
Nocturna Itinera String Quartet Nocturna itinera, sum in magna animi perturbatione... (2008)
Oscillum #1 Lux oculos eius vulneravit - a luz feriu-lhe os olhos - para flauta, texto e cenário (2023)
Reditus ad vitam for piano (dancers/scenario or film) (2012)
Res Adversae for orchestra (2006)
Silens Clamor orchestra version (actors/dancers/scenario) (2005)
Silens Clamor for ensemble (actors/dancers/scenario) (2004)
Sublime volans For Flute, Clarinet Violin, Cello and Piano (2010)
Tempus fugit for ensemble (photography and film) (2010)
Vacuum Corporis hominem te esse memento for two pianos (film) (2016)