Amigos de Música

From Helga Hampton                              NEWSLETTER Dear Amigos,                                                               November 17, 2019 How happy I am to sit down and reminisce with you about our latest two music events at Os Agostos! Our November recitals were true spectacles, and lucky the many Amigos who came to experience  Milan Miladinovich whom I had announced to you as a pianist […]

August; 2019 Dear Amigos, Summer greetings wherever you are spending your Summer Break, hopefully with as much music as possible.  I am certainly spoiled for choice here in London and inspired to continue filling that cultural void in the Algarve again soon in our 2019/20 season. We begin on September 10th at Os Agostos and, […]

Dear Amigas and Amigos, In the afterglow of the last two concerts of the 2018/19 Amigo season let me take the occasion to thank you for your support and your friendship. The recitals with Alissa Firsova and Daniel Rowland were certainly the best Grand Finale we could have hoped for. And I just wish that all Amigos […]

To all Amigas/os From Helga Hampton                               NEWSLETTER                         April, 23,  2019 Dear Amigas and Amigos, It was good to spend the Easter week with so many of you at Os Agostos. We enjoyed, and were bowled over, by the music of the amazing Katya Apekisheva.  This young pianist has a power, imagination and concentration […]

28 Years of Great Music To all Amigas/os From Helga Hampton                              NEWSLETTER March 26, 2019 Dear Amigos, This Newsletter will come to you in the form of a “Thank you !” note.  I would like to share with you my gratitude for so many wonderful things that have come our way recently. First of all […]

ASSOCIAÇÃO DE AMIGOS DE MUSICA at Os Agostos Dear Amigos, We started the second part of the 2018/19 concert season with a bang ! Steven Vanhauwaert more than lived up to promises of pyrotechnics, tense expectations of contemporary works and accolades of his monster technique. The full-house audiences on both evenings were rapt listeners to […]

ASSOCIAÇÃO DE AMIGOS DE MUSICA at Os Agostos 27 Years of Great Music !   To all Amigas/os, from Helga Hampton NEWSLETTER December 1, 2018 Dear Amigos, “Ce qu’on ne peut dire et ce qu’on ne peut taire, la musique l’exprime.” Victor Hugo “Music is what cannot be said – its what cannot be kept […]

Dear Amigos, I am surprised that I am able to write this mail to you as my hands are still in applauding mode after last night`s incredible concert with Charles Owen. HOWEVER, this letter has to go out, because the message is Very Important  and I shall limit myself to the one subject:     […]