University of York Music Press

The new piece for soprano and orchestra will take several short poems by the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa that were written in English under the pseudonym Alexander Search, making the text also an Anglo-Portuguese partnership, just like the commissioning project between the Estoril Festival and the RPO. The RPO will be joined by the superb soprano Yeree Suh from South Korea (pictured) and the Portuguese conductor Cesário Costa, both of whom have worked with Luís previously. In the meantime, Tinoco will enjoy repeat performances of 'Fantastic Tales', his orchestra and narrator settings of Terry Jones children's stories, in Porto and the Azores with the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa and Cesário Costa (conductor) and Joäo Reis (narrator).