João Quinteiro starts his musical studies at the Regional Music Conservatoire of Viseu, where he dedicated himself to the study of classical guitar with Paula Sobral and composition, under the orientation of the Composer
José Carlos Sousa.
Between 2004 and 2009 he takes the Bachelor's Degree in Composition, at the University of Aveiro. Here he studies composition with
João Pedro Oliveira,
Isabel Soveral and
Evgueni Zouldikine. After finishing his Bachelor's Degree, he takes a Master's Degree in Philosophy, specialising in Aesthetics at the FCSH – Nova University of Lisbon, where he works under the supervision of Professor João Constâncio and Professor Paulo Pereira de Assis on the Thesis
Manifestations of the multiple-self and the meaning of Unconscious in Fernando Pessoa in the opera "The Dream", by Pedro Amaral. Simultaneously, he takes the Master's Degree in Composition at the University of Aveiro, under the orientation of Professor Helena Santana, where he presents the Thesis
GOT LOST, language and perception on the works of Helmut Lachenmann.
João Quinteiro studied with the Composer
Emmanuel Nunes, both at the Gulbenkian Foundation and the Casa da Música in Porto between 2005 and 2010. He has also participated in workshops, seminars and conferences by the Composers Brian Farneyhough, Edson Zampronha, Staffan Mossenmark, Flô Menezes, Helmut Lachenmann and Beat Furrer.
He is presently working on his PhD in Artistic Studies – Art and Mediation, with a full scholarship from FCT as an Integrated Researcher at the CESEM-FCSH at the Nova University of Lisbon in cooperation with the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz – where he is currently working – and the Luigi Nono Archive Foundation in Venice, under the orientation of Professor Paula Gomes Ribeiro, Professor Paulo Assis (Orpheus Institute, Ghent) and Composer Beat Furrer (University of Music and Performing Arts Graz), with the investigation project
Nono, Lachenmann, Mark Andre, the performance of the body as an archetype mechanic of insurrection, a genealogy of opera after Darmstadt and the composition of the opera project
Regresso (Returning).
As an Integrated Researcher of the CESEM – Sociology and Musical Aesthetics Study Centre, he is a member of the group: Critical Theory and Communication.
He is currently responsible for the disciplines of Composition Analysis and Techniques and Acoustics, at the Ourearte – Art and Music School of Ourem.
João Quinteriro has participated regularly as speaker in talks and conferences as: from 2013 to 2015, as a guest composer, orienting sessions for the project
Omnia Mutantur by the Arte no Tempo Association, in Aveiro, where he made the presentations:
Helmut Lachenmann: Consolation I, temA and Consolation II;
On a memory of Emmanuel Nunes: the paradox of serving by creation;
Lachenmann and Nietzsche: God is dead vs. Music is dead and
Why do composers always find the need to justify themselves?; MTCC 2018, where he presented the paper
Nono-Lachenmann: Insurrection after Darmstadt, the defiance of danger or the danger of defiance; ENIM 2018, where he presented:
Between the magical and the documental in opera today; Música Analítica 2019, where he presented
From intolerance towards intolerance to Prometheus’s tragedy of listening: Revolution as composition methodology and praxis in Luigi Nono’s non-operas.
He had his first piece premiered in 2007, at one of the Gulbenkian Foundation’s Workshops for Young Composers, under the orientation of the Composer
Emmanuel Nunes. Here, his
Piece with Graphic Title III was selected and performed in concert by the
Gulbenkian Orchestra, conducted by Guillaume Bourgogne. He premiered the first draft of his piece
Oidche Shamhna (percussion quartet) at the Autumn Festivals (Aveiro), invited by the Composer
António Chagas Rosa. He has written the piece
reflexos sobre a pele (reflections on skin) for the Lisbon Ensemble 20/21, on the invitation of the Conductor Pedro Figueiredo. It was premiered in 2010 at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. He has premiered the first draft of the piece
Energeia, with the
GMCL – Lisbon Contemporary Music Group.
In 2015 he was awarded with the 1
st prize (Category A) at the GMCL / Jorge Peixinho 2
nd International Composition Competition, with the piece
Thánatos, which was premiered in 2016 at the Electricity Museum in Lisbon.
In 2016 he premiered the piece
Madrugada I (Dawn I ), for wind orchestra, commissioned by the 10
th Ourearte Musicfest.
In 2017 he premiered the piece
Eros for mixed ensemble with the Lisbon Ensemble 20/21 and the piece
Hermes, nove da noite (Hermes, nine in the evening), for live spatialized solo tenor saxophone and video projection, which was the subject of the Master's thesis in contemporary saxophone performance at the ESML, by the Saxophone player André Correia.
In 2018 he premiered the piece
Yule, for woodwind octet, a commission by the Opuspiritum Ensemble.
In 2019 he was commissioned the piece
two rivers for prepared piano and cello, for the 12
th International Spring Music Festival in Viseu, and the final version of
Energeia has been selected for performance at the 2019 MISE-EN Festival in New York.
EXTERNAL LINKS
APC – Portuguese Association of Composers