Date
16/02/2026

On January 24, António Carrilho performed in concert in Margaret River, in southwestern Western Australia. Accompanied by various instruments—alto recorder with E foot joint, soprano recorder, and transverse flute—the audience was treated to Bark to Woof, a combination of works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Randall Woolf that resulted in a bridge between Baroque and contemporary music.

Two days earlier, also at the Uniting Church in that Australian city, the professor of recorder and chamber music at the School of Applied Arts (ESART) of the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco (IPCB) gave a lecture on the theme ‘Barroque to rock: the changing roles of the recorder over 300 years’, introducing the users of the local university for the elderly to instruments and repertoires associated with the recorder.

The ESART-IPCB concert performer combines solo practice, work with chamber music ensembles, and accompaniment of Portuguese and foreign orchestras with the direction of projects such as cantatas and operas, through which he explores the expressive diversity of early music and its intersections with the present. He is also noted for premiering works and teaching courses and internships in various countries.

Photo credits: RTP – Antena 2