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Young Musicians Award 2025 - scores
Marés (2025)
For alto saxophone
Marés (“tides”) is a metaphor for a “sinking into the void” and “staying afloat”, two ideas that, like the waves of the sea, refer to something cyclical and not permanent. Specifically, I take inspiration from a reading of the book Near to the Wild heart by Clarice Lispector and my own somewhat poetic musings that I transmit in musical values. Furthermore, the piece presents an undefined subject in the verses that accompany it, not dedicated to anyone, particularly, but to everyone to whom it can speak more intimately.
biography :
Luana Ambrósio (b. 1999, Faro) began her musical studies on the piano at the Maria Campina Regional Conservatory of Algarve, dedicating herself to composition in 2018 at the Music School of the National Conservatory, in Lisbon, under the guidance of Eli Camargo. An year after she debuted as a composer with the piece Watery Movements, performed at the Reservoir of Mãe d’Água, Amoreiras. Currently, she continues to present her works in an academic setting while finishing her bachelor in Composition at the Higher School of Music and Performing Arts, in Porto, under the tutorship of Daniel Moreira, having been tutored by Carlos Azevedo and Filipe Vieira in the previous years.