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– Thu 24 Jul: DI ALTRI ASTRI for Sax alto and Piano (Premiere) Sala Colitto,Termoli,Italy
– Sat 26 Jul: Koorconcert, Tiramisu zomerkoor Lutherse Kerk, Maastricht, Netherlands
– Sun 27 Jul: Lines and Waves in Blue Deep for 5 accordions (wp) Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, USA
– Mon 28 Jul: Trio Stravinskij: contaminations from jazz, music-hall, cabaret and American folklore Astronomical Observatory, Loiano, Italy
– Tue 29 Jul: Trio Stravinskij: contaminations from jazz, music-hall, cabaret and American folklore Church in Piazza Giovanni XIII, Tolè di Vergato, Italy

– Fitkin to be Composer in Residence in London 16 Jun 2008
– Composer Hay finds back score after 35 years 30 May 2008
– Sibelius plaque unveiled in Berlin 24 Apr 2008
– Lost Bach composition found back 22 Apr 2008

Birthdays:
– Elliott Goldkind
– Wilfred Josephs
– Robert John Farnon
– Ernest Bloch
– Paolino Vassallo
Dying days:
– Alan Rawsthorne
– Max von Schillings
– Léon Walpot
– Padre Davide da Bergamo Felice Moretti
– Johann Gottfried Eckard
Events:
– (1964) Alberto Ginastera: Premiere of Don Rodrigo, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
– (1938) Richard Strauss: Premiere of Friedenstag, in Munich, Germany.
– (1828) Nicoló Paganini: Premiere of violin concerto no. 3 in E major, in Vienna, Austria.

– Pierre Even (18 Jul)
– Clara Schumann (17 Jul)
– Barney Childs (17 Jul)
– István Anhalt (17 Jul)
– Lowell Dijkstra (17 Jul)
– Lisa Ragsdale (17 Jul)
– Amy Scurria (16 Jul)
– Diana Rotaru (16 Jul)
– Benedictus Buns (16 Jul)
– Johannes Brahms (15 Jul)

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Born: 1973 — Lisbon — Portugal

Died:

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Antunes Pena studied composition with Evgueni Zoudilkine (1993–96), Christopher Bochmann (1996/97) and António Pinho Vargas (1998–99). At the same time attended the composition seminars from Emmanuel Nunes (1994–99).

In 1998 attended the IRCAM’s Summer Academy with Gérard Grisey. He won the First Prize and Second Prize in the “Óscar da Silva” and “Lopes-Graça” composition contest. In 1997 his piece “Rumos, Caminhos, Direcções” for 17 instruments was premiered and in 1999 “Trajectórias” for 12 instruments was presented in “Centro Cultural de Belém” (Lisbon) and repeated in München by the ensemble “piano possibile”.

He was one of the creators of the international contemporary music festival “Jornadas Nova Música-Aveiro” (1997–2001).

In 1999 he moved to Germany so to continue his studies of composition with Nicolaus A. Huber and Dirk Reith at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen, benefiting of a scholarship from the “Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia”.

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