Music Projects

The first edition, taking place between the 16th and 18th of November, will bring together renowned and emerging talents from alternative, jazz and classical music. Seventeen original works inspired by Saramago will be premiered at the first edition of the Leiria Creative City of Music Festival, which takes place between the 16th and 18th of […]

Contemporary Glass Exhibition. [International Year of Glass | UNESCO 2022] Individual artistic exhibition by Nelson Figueiredo, under the theme “Falsified Tamagotchi”. In the International Year of Glass, we celebrate the role that glass plays in society. In this exhibition we praise its excellence as an artistic support, its tradition in the Leiria region and impact […]

The Leiria Creative City of Music – UNESCO in partnership with the Leiria Jazz Association and the Philharmonic Association of the Council of Leiria announces the 1st Edition of the International Leiria Composition Contest in the Jazz and Scholar Music categories. Learn more: https://www.dropbox.com/s/l1w75mwx2td92q9/regulamento_final_3.pdf?dl=0

The 1st edition of 𝐋𝐈𝐙𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐒𝐒 – 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐬 will be held in Leiria, between August 14th and 19th The festival, organized under the artistic direction of the Ensemble de Metais de Leiria, in partnership with the Leiria Philharmonic Association and the Domingos Sequeira Secondary School, combines a strong training component with a series of […]

Under the curation of Rita Nabais, the project brings together a panel of guests connected to music through the word: music journalists, authors of books about Portuguese music. The action is inserted in the premise of the Creative City of Music, in line with respective principles that identify it: one of them focuses Music for […]