LUÍS
TINOCO
COMPOSER
Events Calendar
New double CD release: KOKYUU - works for soloists and orchestra
24 . November . 2025 - 7:00 pm
Museu do Oriente, Lisbon
Artway Editions will release Luís Tinoco's new album featuring five works for soloist and orchestra recorded with the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra (cond. by Pedro Neves) and the Porto Casa da Música Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Joana Carneiro and Bastien Stil). The works featured in this CD are:
"Kokyuu" - Alto Saxophone Concerto . Ricardo Toscano, soloist
Work Songs . Lívia Nestrovski, soloist
Cello Concerto No. 2 . Filipe Quaresma, soloist
Accordion Concerto . João Barradas, soloist
"Entre Silêncios" - Clarinet Concerto . Horácio Ferreira, soloist
World première : “Au fond, la lumière” at the Festival de Danse - Cannes Côte d'Azur
6 . December . 2025 - 8:30 pm
Palais Des Festvals, Théâtre Debussy
New work completed: music for the ballet Louis Lui, by Paulo Ribeiro.
This score was recorded by the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, cond. Pedro Neves in early September and will now have its live première by the Companhia Paulo Ribeiro and the Orchestre National de Cannes, cond. by Arie van Beek, at the Théâtre Debussy, Cannes
Portuguese première : “Louis Lui”
12 . December . 2025 - 7:00 pm
Convento de S. Francisco, Coimbra
Choreographer and Artistic Director: Paulo Ribeiro
Assistant Choreographer: Ana Moreno
Performers: Diogo M. Santos, Francisco Ferreira, Liliana Oliveira, Marta Cardoso, Rodrigo Loureiro, Vivian Põldoja
Music: "Symphony for Open Strings" by Louis Andriessen and "Au fond, la lumière" (Portuguese première) by Luís Tinoco
Performers: Caecilia Consort, dir. Ed Spanjaard (Symphony for Open Strings) and Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, dir. Pedro Neves (Au fond, la lumière)
Lighting Design: Nuno Meira
Costumes: José António Tenente
“Louis Lui”: Upcoming performances
January to October . 2026
Ponte de Lima (Diogo Bernardes Theatre) - January 23
Estoril (Estoril Casino - Salão Preto e Prata) - February 1
Vale de Cambra (Centro de Artes e Espetáculos) - February 7
Lisbon (São Luiz Teatro Municipal) - March 6, 7, 8
Loulé (Cineteatro Louletano) - April 29
Castelo Branco (Cine-Teatro Avenida) - October 30
Orquestra do Norte performs “Before Spring”
10 . January . 2026 - 9:30 pm
Theatro Circo - Braga
In a programme featuring Edgard Varèse's "Octandre" and Igor Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring", the Orquestra do Norte, conducted by Fernando Marinho will perform Luís Tinoco's "Before Spring - a tribute to The Rite"
"O Sotaque Azul das Águas" performed at Casa da Música
21 . February . 2026 - 6:00 pm
Sala Suggia - Porto
"O Sotaque Azul das Águas" (The Blue Voice of the Water), composed in 2015 in response to a joint commission from the Orquestra Gulbenkian and the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra (OSESP), will now be performed by the Porto Casa da Música Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Joana Carneiro, in a programme entitled "O Azul do Mar" (The Blue of the Sea).
Kodu performs "Spiralling" at the Joaquim Benite Municipal Theatre
28 . February . 2026 - 9:00 pm
Teatro Municipal Joaquim Benite - Almada
In the Sala Experimental of the Theatre, the Kodu Percussion Group's musicians Francisco Guerreiro, Ismael Gouveia and Jaime Pereira will perform "Spiralling", along with other works by Pedro Lima, Vasco Mendonça, François Tasdjian and Iannis Xenakis.