Porto is a Harmos City this March

HARMOS 2019 is a Chamber Music Festival that gathers the most renowned artists of some of the most prestigious Music schools in Europe and in the world. The festival's agenda includes several concerts in alternate dates in Porto. On 19 March, Casa da Música will host the MCI Ensemble Music Confucius Institute, from the Royal Danish Academy of Music, the META Piano Trio Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy, and Vento do Norte from the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo, IPP, Porto, Portugal.

The following day, on 20 March, the Aurora Wind Quintet of the Norwegian Academy of Music, will present at Porto City Hall, starting at 1 pm. Later that day, Harmos Festival continues at Casa do Infante, featuring Vento do Norte, of the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo, Porto, Portugal. It is scheduled to start at 7 pm.

This year, the Harmos Festival celebrates its 13th anniversary featuring performances in other cities such as Barcelos, Braga, Famalicão, Mondim de Basto and Santa Maria da Feira, bringing Chamber Music closer to different audiences.

The main goal of the Harmos Festival is to promote chamber music exchange and to carry out masterclasses to combine tradition and contemporaneity
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Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instrument. Because of its intimate nature, chamber music has been described as "the music of friends", it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers, with one performer to a part (in contrast to orchestral music, in which each string part is played by a number of performers).

HARMOS is organized by ESMAE from the Porto's Polytechnic and has the support of a wide network of Artistic higher education institutions worldwide, including the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig.

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