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Young Musicians Award 2024 - scores
According to the legend, the Enchanted Charamela hypnotized anyone who heard parts of an ancient melody played through her. In this piece, we relive the legendary power of Enchanted Charamela and its magical melodies, where the oboe opens a portal to the unknown, and takes us to travel through soundscapes that evoke images of these ancient rituals and forgotten stories, immersed in a world of mysteries and magic.
WARNING: The piece contains parts of the magical melody, and there is a possibility that hypnosis and trances may occur during listening. Anything that happens to the listener or possible hallucinations is from their own responsibility.
biography :
Gerson de Sousa Batista (1988), is a Portuguese composer, playwright, multi-instrumentalist, poet, theater creator and multimedia artist from Aveiro. He started his academic path in civil engineering but early on he began composing. He studied music theory, organ and vocal techniques at the Calouste Gulbenkian Music Conservatory of Aveiro, and since, he has won more than 40 composition awards, published numerous books and works in both physical and digital formats, created and staged a wide variety of creations, and has been commissioned and played all around the globe, being currently mainly involved in the creation and staging of several multimedia theaters and musicals, staged concerts, and various instrumental and choral music projects, while regularly rotating some of his long duration Multimedia Musical Theaters.