Performance

ARS AD HOC

Plays works by György Kurtág, João Moreira, Salvatore Sciarrino and Isabel Soveral

Museum Auditorium

12 OCT 2025 | 6PM

Ticket: 7,50€

Student/Youth, over 64 and Amigos de Serralves: €3.75

André Delhaye

As it begins its eighth season, ars ad hoc invites the audience to join the ensemble on a brief journey through 40 years of music for bowed string instruments, featuring composers from different geographical areas and generations.

The group's first foray into the music of Salvatore Sciarrino (1947) is with an older work, the string trio ‘Codex Purpureus’ [1983], which exemplifies the composer's style, marked by the delicacy of sonic gestures that are almost inaudible, crossing silence and noise as metaphors for sound.

Portuguese music is represented here by Isabel Soveral (1961), with two works from the end of the last century in which it is possible to hear the same musical material – one for solo cello and the other for string quartet, both from the ‘Anamorphoses’ cycle.

In anticipation of the centenary celebration of György Kurtág (1926) – a master of the miniature whose works are often tributes to other composers, musicians, or figures who have influenced him in some way – ars ad hoc performs his quartet ‘Officium breve, in memoriam Andreae Szervánszky, Op. 28’, a work that quotes the Hungarian composer Andreae Szervánszky, but also Anton Webern.

The first work that João Moreira (2004) wrote for ars ad hoc at the age of just 18 is revisited here, on the occasion of the release of ars ad hoc's first album, featuring that same string trio.

PROGRAMME

Isabel Soveral (Porto, 1961)

'Anamorphoses IV' [1997]

Salvatore Sciarrino (Palermo, 1947)

'Codex purpureus' [1983]

Isabel Soveral

'Anamorphoses V' [1997]

György Kurtág (Lugoj, 1926)

'Officium breve, in memoriam Andreae Szervánszky, Op. 28' [1989]

João Moreira (Lisboa, 2004)

'Atropos', para trio de cordas [2022]

Diogo Coelho and Matilde Loureiro > violin