Vasco Martins

Vasco Martins nyɛla Cape Verdean yiliyiina mini ŋun niŋdi binkumda niŋdi yila ni . Bɛ dɔɣi o la Queluz, Portugal, yuuni 1956,Sudplanete (South Planet), diversité culturelle saha ŋɔ o pa bela Calhau, Cape Verde.

Compositions
Symphonies

 Symphony No. 1: "Celebração do equinócio de Março" (Celebration of the Spring Equinox)
1998-2002 rev. 2004: Symphony No. 2:: "Erupção" ("Eruption"), for orchestra
 Symphony No. 3 "Arquipélago magnético" (Magnetic Archipelago), for orchestra
 Assim
 melodicamente em três partes
 Final generoso (expressão jubilosa)
2001: Symphony No. 4: "Buda Dharma", ("Buddha Dharma"), for orchestra
Symphony No. 5: "Oriente" ("Eastern"), for orchestra
 norte (North)
 este (East)
 oeste (West)
 sul (South)
 nadir (Nadir)
 zenite (Zenith)
 Symphony No. 6: "Monte Verde" (Pandion halieatus), for orchestra
 Symphony No. 7: "Alba", for orchestra
 Symphony No. 8: "A procura da Luz" (The search for light), for orchestra
 Symphony No. 9, for orchestra Symphony No. 9, performed by the "Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra" with Vit Micka

Instrumental music
 4 Notas na cidade do Mindelo (4 Notes on the City of Mindelo), solo clarinet
 Anámnesis, guitar
 Concert, guitar
 Dôs temp p'um valsa, clarinet, in São Vicente Crioulo
 Musique pour adoucir le Coeur, in French

Other works
 1989 Danças de Câncer, symphonic suite
 Abertura (Overture)
 Pulsações (Pulsations)
 Noites mágicas (Magic Nights)
 Terra vulcânica (Volcanic Land)
 A garça por cima das ondas
 Clara Luz, (Clear Light)
 Golfinhos no horizonte
 Oceano no coração (Ocean With a Heart)
 Calmas tardes no Monte Verde (Calm Winds in Monte Verde)
 Tardes caminhando (Afternoons on a Lane)

Discography 

Albums
1979: Vibrações (Vibrations)
1985: Para além da noite
1987: Oceano imenso (Immense Ocean)
1989: Quinto mundo
1995: Quiet moments
1995: Ritual periférico (Peripheral Ritual)
1995: Eternal cycle
1996: Island of the secret sounds
1997: Sublime delight
1997: Memórias atlânticas (Atlantic Memories)
1998: Danças de Câncer
2000: Apeiron
2001: Dôs
2001: Lunário perpétuo
2007: 4 sinfonias (4 Symphonies)
2009: Lua água clara (Clear Water Moon)
2010: Li Sin
2012: Azuris
2014: Twelve Moons (CD-r)

Chamber music
Primeiras Meditações (First Meditations), with a flute, cello piano, violin and a guitar
Azul Ibérico (Iberic Blue), string quartet
Azul Caboverdiano (Cape Verdean Blue), string quartet

Piano works
Piano Azul (Blue Piano) (1998)
Amendoeira celeste
Amornando
 Lua de Abril (April Moon)
 Lua de Dezembro (December Moon)
 Luz e sombra no deserto (Light and Sleep in the Desert)
 Memória da água (Memories of Water)
 Orion
 Peregrinações
 Ventos oceânicos (Ocean Winds)

Guitar works
 Deserto subtil (Subtle Desert)
 Estudo (Studies)
 Gesto flutuante
 Molto continuum
 Num varanda
 Prelúdio
 Sattva
 Situações triangulares (Triangular Situations)

Electronic music
 Apeiron
 Divinas of S. Nicolau
 Lunario Perpetuo (Lunar Perpetuary)
 Ocean-Light
 Ocean and Moon
 Sarva Mangalam
 Sublime Delight

Musicals
Operas
 Date Title Acts Premiere Libretto 2008 Crioulo 27 March 2009, Lisbon, Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB) as componist, with cantata "Lágrimas na Paraise"

Literary works
Música Tradicional Cabo-verdiana (Cape Verdean Traditional Music)
Vol. I - A morna (Vol. I - Morna)

Poems
Universo da Ilha (Island Universe), 1986
Navegam os olhares com o voo do pássaro, 1989
Run Shan, 2008

Kundivihira

External links
Official website (in Portuguese and English)

Category:1956 births
Category:Living people
Category:Cape Verdean musicians
Category:Cape Verdean composers
Category:Cape Verdean poets
Category:New-age musicians
Category:People from Queluz, Portugal
Category:People from São Vicente, Cape Verde