This is a collaboration between Teatro Nacional de São Carlos and Teatro São Luiz. The Jardim Aberto series brings together a sequence of chamber music concerts, performed by small groups of musicians from the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra and the Choir of the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos.
The bill follows on from themes explored in the previous season, inviting audiences to discover works related to War, João Domingos Bomtempo, Luís de Camões, Women Composers and the Faustus myth.
With free entry, the concerts present an opportunity to bring solo musicians and the public closer in a particularly engaging atmosphere, in the welcoming Sala Bernardo Sassetti of Teatro São Luiz.

The invisibility of women composers in the main narratives of music history spans centuries and persists to this day. The programme for this concert in the Jardim Aberto cycle at the São Luz Theatre aims to contribute to restoring their voices, inviting the audience to discover chamber music works written by four female composers from different backgrounds and for different instrumental formations.

The concert opens with Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano, Op. 45 (1857) by Louise Farrenc, French composer and virtuoso pianist, the first and only woman to attain the position of professor at the Paris Conservatory throughout the 19th century. This is followed by Sei miniature, composed in 2002 by Matilde Capuis, an Italian composer whose career spanned much of the 20th century. These six short pieces reflect her predilection for chamber music and, especially, for the sound of strings. From Emilie Mayer, a German Romantic composer, we will hear the Trio in E minor, Op. 12, published in 1861. Mayer had a remarkable career as a pianist on German stages and composed a substantial body of symphonic and chamber music.
Finally, Tera de Marez Oyens, from the Netherlands, with A Wrinkle in Time, a work that explores the malleability of time, challenging its linearity through sound textures that, like fabric, fold, expand, and contract the time of listening.

Louise Farrenc Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano, op. 45
Matilde Capuis Sei miniature for flute, violin and cello
Emilie Mayer Trio for violin, cello and piano in E minor, op. 12
Tera de Marez-Oyens A Wrinkle in Time