João-Carlos Pinto

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Studied Piano and Composition at Braga Gulbenkian Conservatory and did his bachelor in Composition at Lisbon Superior Music School. Currently, he is doing his Masters in Multimedia Composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg with Alexander Schubert.

 

His work as been presented in South Korea, USA, Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, Germany, France, The Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, Norway, Iceland, Spain and, regularly, all over Portugal.

 

Has received commissions from: UNESCO – Braga Media Arts / ZKM, Gaudeamus, RTP / Antena 2, Casa da Música, Centro Cultural de Belém, JOP, ensemble neoN, Arte no Tempo and Aveiro City Council.

 

As a performer he plays, mostly, electronic instruments built by himself.

Highlight for the projects CACO.MEAL, Omniae Large Ensemble, Peter Evans’ Som Crescente and xD.

 


PRIZES and HONORS

2023

 Finalist . Luciano Berio Composition Competition by Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

 

2022

 Scholarship . Johannes Brahms Stiftung

 

2021

 Scholarship . Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores

 

2020

 Winner . “City to City” by UNESCO, powered by ZKM - Karlsruhe and Braga Media Arts

 Winner . “tubo de ensaio 02” by Arte no Tempo, ensemble neoN and ensemble ars ad hoc

 

2019

 Selected . Festival Manifeste, IRCAM / Centre Pompidou . working with the ensemble NIKEL and Raphaël Cendo

 Selected . “Biljoke Summer Academy” . opera creation residency by ENOA - European Network of Contemporary Opera Academies at LOD Muziektheater

 Selected . “Laboratórios de Verão” by gnration . with the project CACO.MEAL

  Young Associated Composer of Estúdios Victor Córdon . partnership with São Carlos National Theatre and National Ballet Company

 

2018

 2nd prize . VI Composition Competition by Banda Sinfónica Portuguesa

 

2016

 1st prize . “NanoMúsicos Eletroacústicos” by Festival DME

 Best piece in the genre “War Movie” . “Film Music Competition” by Associazione Ravel



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photo © Marianne Harlé, 2022

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Concerto


Saxophone Concerto for saxophone & symphonic orchestra (2021)

Ensemble de Chambre (5 - 9 instruments)


Studies for Figures and Forms for flute, detuned clarinet, prepared piano and string quartet (2020)

Ensemble (Instruments ou voix) et électronique fixée


String Quartet no.1 for string quartet and electronics (2019)

Soliste (Instrument ou voix) et électronique fixée


Nothingness as an emergence for prepared cello and electronics (2018)
Anti-manifesto.exe for megaphone and electronics (2018)

Orchestre Symphonique


THIS PIECE HAD A DIFFERENT NAME for modular toy orchestra (2018)

Orchestre d'harmonie


Nadir for wind orchestra (2017)
Anti-manifesto.exe for megaphone and electronics (2018)
Nadir for wind orchestra (2017)
Nothingness as an emergence for prepared cello and electronics (2018)
Saxophone Concerto for saxophone & symphonic orchestra (2021)
String Quartet no.1 for string quartet and electronics (2019)
Studies for Figures and Forms for flute, detuned clarinet, prepared piano and string quartet (2020)
THIS PIECE HAD A DIFFERENT NAME for modular toy orchestra (2018)