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SOLO INSTRUMENTS:

• Hornpipe – solo horn (1997/rev.1999)
  
  
• Chirimia – solo oboe (2001/…)

• Suite in Jazz Style – clarinet quartet (1992/1993/1999/rev.2000)
  

• Suite in Jazz Style – alternative version for double-reed quartet [*2ob.(2ndalso English horn), 2fag.] (2001/…)

• (Quarteto) – clarinet quartet (1992/1993) [withdrawn]

• Trois Pièces d’Hommage – A-clarinet (or oboe) & piano (1993/1994/1997/rev.1998)

• Efémera I – clarinet & percussion duet (1994)

• Terzetto – 3 Bb trumpets or 2 trumpets Bb & horn (1995/1996/1998/rev.2001/...)

• Triptych – for 3 oboists: oboe/ oboe d'amore/ english-horn (2005/…)]
  
• Inventio a 3 – for reed trio: oboe/ clarinet/ bassoon (2004/…)]

• Variazioni in modo quasi clasico – flute & clarinet duet, playing 6 instruments: piccolo, C-flute, alto-flute in G/ Eb-clarinet, Bb-clarinet, bass-clarinet (1996/…)

• Quinteto – wind quintet [fl./picc.; ob./Eng.horn; clar.(Bb&A); hr.; fag.] (1998/rev.2000/new rev.2003)

• 4 Laços da Dança dos Paulitos (Hommage à F. Lopes-Graça) – clarinet quartet [Eb/Bb/A/bass] (1996/1997/rev.2000)

• 4 Laços da Dança dos Paulitos (Hommage à F. Lopes-Graça) – alternative version for wind quintet (2001/…) [fl./fl.alto, ob./Eng.horn, clar. Eb/Bb, hr./tuba wagneriana, fag./c.fag.]

• Sax-suite – saxophone quartet (1997-2000, final version: 2005)
  
  
• Hornphony – horn quartet (2000-2003/rev.2010)
  
  

SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA/
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA/
WIND ORCHESTRA/
ENSEMBLE :

• Serenade vox populis – chamber orchestra (2001/2003):
  (**2*2*2*2-altosax.-2200-timp.-strings)
  detailed info about orchestration:
  2fl. (doubling 2picc.)/ 2ob. (2nd.doubling english horn)/ 2clar. in A/ 2fag. (2nd.doubling contrebasson)/ 1alto-sax. (doubling soprano-sax.)/ 2hr./ 2trp.in C/ timp./ strings (min.66442)
  

Metamorphoses ...hommage à M. C. Escher –
for chamber orchestra (2009):
[*2*2*2*2-2200-timp.+1perc.-strings(65442)]

Mozartiana, a musical joke –
Divertimento for Clarinete Ensemble (2009)

ARRANGMENTS; ORCHESTRATIONS:

• La Boda de Luiz Alonso (Zarzuela por Giménez) – arranged for clarinet ensemble

• Somewhere (from “West Side Story” - L. Bernstein) – arranged for clarinet ensemble, with or without vocals

• Granada (by Agustin Lara) – arranged for clarinet ensemble, with or without vocals

• Cidade Invicta (March dedicated to the city of Porto) – arranged for clarinet ensemble [originally conceived as opening piece of the “I International Clarinet Congress of Porto (CLAMEEOPORTO) in a concert by the “Orquestra Invicta de Clarinetes” – May/1997]

• Arco-Íris (popular fantasy by Duarte Ferreira Pestana, original for wind band) – re-instrumentation for symphonic orchestra (1997):
  (*2*2*32-3sax.(2alto+1tenor)-4331-timp.+3perc.-strings)
  detailed info about orchestration:
  2fl. (doubling 2picc.)/ 2ob. (2 nd.doubling english horn)/ 2clar. in B b / bass-clarinet/ 2fag./ 2alto-sax./ 1 tenor-sax./ 4hr./ 3trp.in C/ 3 trbn./ tuba/ timp./ 3 perc./ strings

• Valses Nobles et Sentimentales (by M. Ravel, originally for piano solo [1911], orchestrated by Ravel himself for symphony orchestra [1912])
  orchestral reduction for chamber ensemble (2004/...)
  por Luís Carvalho
  (1111-sax.-1110-2perc.-piano-strings:11111)

• Concert No.1 for clarinet and orchestra, in G-min.
  author: José Avelino Canongia (1784-1842)
  critical revision & orchestral reduction for piano by
  Luís Carvalho (2005-6)
  [within the scope of the Masters degree in Performance by the University of Aveiro]
  
  
• Concert No.2 for clarinet and orchestra, in Bb-Maj.
  author: José Avelino Canongia (1784-1842)
  critical revision & orchestral reduction for piano by
  Luís Carvalho (2005-6)
  [within the scope of the Masters degree in Performance by the University of Aveiro]
  
  
• Concert No.3 for clarinet and orchestra, in Eb-Maj.
  author: José Avelino Canongia (1784-1842)
  critical revision & orchestral reduction for piano by
  Luís Carvalho (2005-6)
  [within the scope of the Masters degree in Performance by the University of Aveiro]
  
  
• Concert No.4 for clarinet and orchestra, in D-min.
  author: José Avelino Canongia (1784-1842)
  critical revision & orchestral reduction for piano by
  Luís Carvalho (2005-6)
  [within the scope of the Masters degree in Performance by the University of Aveiro]

• Cadenza to G. Rossini’s “Introduction, theme & variations” (1999)

• Cadenza to Malcolm Arnold’s “Clarinet Concerto no. 2
  op. 115” (2003)
  
  
• Cadenza to Canongia’s “Clarinet Concerto No.1,
  in G-min.” (2006)
  
  

• Arnold Schoenberg – reflection on his aesthetics (in Portuguese).
  
  
• Joly Braga Santos (1924/1988) – a Portuguese symphonist
  [the 5th symphony op.39 «VIRTUS LUSITANAE» (1966) as the paradigm of the composer’s symphonic output] (in Portuguese).
  
  
• José Avelino Canongia (1784-1842): virtuoso & composer
  Masters thesis (Md) presented to the University of Aveiro (2006).