March 20 2023
The founding president of the Centre Européen de Musique, Jorge Chaminé, accompanied by Guta Moura Guedes, director of the Terra Foundation (partner of the CEM) were received on 9 March by the mayor of Lisbon, Carlos Moedas.
Jorge Chaminé and Guta Moura Guedes were greeted on 9 March by Carlos Moedas
They discussed with the mayor the pan-European establishment of VIAMUSICA-CEM around the multiple virtualities of Music and the forthcoming creation of its branches in Portugal, including Lisbon.
"To have as a partner the City Council of Lisbon, a city at the cutting edge of innovation and advocating a cultural approach that promotes development, is quite exceptional and deserves our recognition and pride. Music and the oceans, the defence of marine biodiversity, the vast musical literature inspired by water, musical traditions in which water is a fundamental actor, sound and seismic and tsunami prevention, the study of sound, brain and sea waves: these are just some of the areas in which the CEM's Lisbon antenna is anchored," explains Jorge Chaminé.
Lisbon is already part of VIAMUSICA since the Amália Rodrigues Foundation joined the network of Houses and Museums of European Musicians and the Via Scarlatti. This brilliant composer was in fact the Kapellmeister at the court of King John V of Portugal (1706-1750).
"A big thank you to Carlos Moedas and his teams for his attentive listening and for his visionary approach to Lisbon, establishing a bridge between Culture-Science-Music," concludes Jorge Chaminé. So, let's get to work, with the establishment of CEM antennas in Lisbon, Mafra and Comporta already in place.
This CEM constellation is also continuing in other countries. Remarkable developments are underway in Germany, Austria, Spain, Greece, Italy... Not to mention the 23 European countries united around the CEM in its network of Houses and Museums of European Musicians, or the partnerships forged with Argentina, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Egypt, India, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Tunisia and the USA, making the CEM the true VIA MUSICA that unites peoples around and through it.
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