About
Young Musicians Award 2025 - scores
Neblina is a piece for clarinet in A, which resulted from a commission by Antena 2/RTP for the 2025 Young Musicians Award. As a clarinetist, I thought about how I could make the piece challenging to play to a level of a competition. With this, and as the title of the piece suggests, I used a timbral, tonal and somewhat rhythmic blurring of a dominant language in the repertoire of this instrument, essentially using microtonalism and timbral exploration.
biography :
João Segura (b. 2002) began his musical studies on the clarinet where, after finishing Secondary School, he became increasingly interested in Composition and was admitted to Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa in 2021, completing a Graduation in Music (Composition). He studied composition with teachers Sérgio Azevedo, Carlos Caires and Luís Tinoco. He is currently studying for a Master’s in Music (Composition) at ESML. Her piece Três Desenhos, in homage to the mestre Manuel Cargaleiro, was awarded 2nd prize (without a 1st) in the XII BSP National Composition Competition, being premiered at Casa da Música.