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Composer, violinist and singer Caroline Shaw is one of the most acclaimed figures in contemporary music. In 2013, she became the youngest-ever winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music, an accolade that propelled a career marked by collaborations with some of today’s most distinguished performers and ensembles. In this programme, the Ahora Quintet devotes itself entirely to her music, revealing different facets of her creative language.

In Blueprint and Plan & Elevation, references to architecture, space and construction provide the starting point for compositions of remarkable sonic imagination. Entr’acte, inspired by a string quartet by Joseph Haydn, reinterprets its classical language from a contemporary perspective. Punctum draws inspiration from a chorale by Johann Sebastian Bach, exploring the timbral and expressive possibilities of a single chord.

Between echoes of the past and a profoundly contemporary musical language, the Ahora Quintet and Caroline Shaw invite us to rediscover tradition through a renewed way of listening, marked by curiosity and openness to transformation.

Guided tour by João Mateus at 3:30pm.

On the days when the Music at the Museum Series takes place, Antena 2’s programme A Voz das Cores, created by Andrea Lupi, will be entirely dedicated to the concert and the artworks on display at MAC/CCB.