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– Philip Glass gets commission from NYC Opera 30 Sep 2008
– Mauricio Kagel dies in Cologne at 76 19 Sep 2008
– New Mozart tune found in France 18 Sep 2008
– Nathan Currier wins International Sackler Award 18 Sep 2008

– Wed 15 Oct: Iron Rain Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland
– Wed 15 Oct: Opera For Piano Mannes College of Music, Manhattan, New York City, USA
– Thu 16 Oct: thingNY does Berio Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY (USA)
– Thu 16 Oct: Outsound and The Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
– Fri 17 Oct: 23rd Annual Concert of Sacred Choral Music Cathedral of the Holy Angels, Gary, Indiana, USA

Birthdays:
– Bernhard Henrik Crusell
– Moritz Brosig
– Alexander Dreyschock
– Kornél Ábrányi
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Dying days:
– Zdenek Fibich
– Franz Reizenstein
– Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
Events:
– (1905) Claude Debussy: Premiere of La Mer, in Paris, France.
– (1907) Johann Adam Hiller: Premiere of Max Reger's "Hiller Variations" op. 100, in Cologne, Germany.
– (1907) Max Reger: Premiere of Max Reger's "Hiller Variations" op. 100, in Cologne, Germany.
– (1923) Paul Hindemith: Premiere of Das Marienleben op. 27, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
– (1938) Richard Strauss: Premiere of Daphne, in Dresden, Germany.

– Sergio Fidemraizer (10 Oct)
– Giovanni Giovenale Ancina (9 Oct)
– Jan Adams (Johann Adam) Reinken (8 Oct)
– Richard Englefield (8 Oct)
– John Arrigo-Nelson (8 Oct)
– Arthur Butterworth (8 Oct)
– George Butterworth (8 Oct)
– Luís Carvalho (8 Oct)
– Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann (2 Oct)
– Josef Antonín Gurecký (2 Oct)

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Born: 1972 — Lisboa — Portugal

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Born in Lisbon in 1972, Pedro Amaral is one of the most active European composers of the young generation.

He studied at the Paris Superior Conservatoire (CNSM), where he graduated, in 1998, with the "first prize in composition", awarded by unanimous vote of the jury.

He also studied conducting with Peter Eötvös (Eötvös Institute, 2000) and Emilio Pomarico (Milan Scuola Civica, 2001).

In parallel with his practical apprenticeship, Pedro Amaral proceeded with university studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, in Paris, obtaining a Masters degree in contemporary musicology with a thesis on Stockhausen’s "Gruppen" (1998) and, later on, a Ph.D. with a thesis on "Momente" and the problematic of musical form in serial music. About this huge analysis, Karl Stockhausen commented, in Le Monde de la Musique (September 2003): "It is an excellent work that taught me a lot of things" — he then invited Pedro Amaral to become his assistant in some specific projects.

Amaral’s regular presence at French Institute IRCAM result in three important works: "Transmutations", for piano and live electronics, "Organa" and the long "Script" for percussion and live electronics.

As conductor, he specialized in Boulez, Berio and Stockhausen repertoire, as well as in mix repertoire (works for orchestra and electronics) besides his own music — which he partially recorded, in 2006, with the London Sinfonietta under his own conducting.

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