A singer and songwriter sponsored by the great Tom Zé, Tainá e i o u is seen as one of the most creative figures on the new Brazilian music scene. She presents her debut album, Metacomunicanção, in which she promotes unusual rhythmic fusions and weaves links between concrete poetry, philosophy, metacommunication, carimbó and free jazz.

After releasing his debut album at the end of June, Lisbon singer-songwriter Diego el Gavi now presents it to a Porto audience. Puerta del alma, with the collaboration of Ricardo Ribeiro, Tatanka and Paulo de Carvalho, reveals a heartfelt interpretation of the deepest gypsy soul, in a fusion of flamenco and Latin jazz.

In October 2009, when the first session of our project took place, four people attended and the song “Desejo de Viver” was composed together. 15 years later, many more are joining in to sing a repertoire created almost entirely by the many people who are or have been part of Som da Rua.

In the heart of Porto, Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música bids farewell to another summer with a programme filled with popular dances and timeless stories.

This charity concert in favour of Health4Moz gives us the pleasure of hearing Joly Braga Santos' Staccato Brilhante, Rimsky-Korsakoff's Scheherazade and Rachmaninoff's famous Piano Concerto No. 2, performed by soloist Vasco Dantas, under the baton of conductor Sebastião Castanheira Martins.

Singer-songwriter Kristian Matsson, known in the music industry as The Tallest Man on Earth, has a new album entitled "Henry St.", his first in four years.

With a career spanning 20 years, Pedro Pondé is one of the most prolific musicians in Bahia's current independent scene. Accompanied by Ricardo Machado (drums), Tatiana Trad (bass) and Angelo Canja Daltro (guitar), he brings to this concert – centred on the album Simples Assim – a contemporary pop identity, creative and human, with traces of MPB, reggae, rock and Bahian music.

Stravinsky's career will forever be linked to ballet and Sergei Diaghilev's company the Ballets Russes, for whom he wrote such famous scores as "The Firebird," "Petrushka," and "The Rite of Spring”.

Inspired by the strong tradition of wind and percussion orchestras, the Banda Sinfónica Portuguesa brings together talented musicians and presents enticing programmes, paying special attention to recent works, national premieres, and Portuguese music. At Casa da Música, it is offering five concerts at noon on Sundays and such concerts never disappoint.

Alex Paxton is a composer and trombonist who has been hailed as one of the most modern, imaginative, and energetic artists of the moment.