Solange Azevedo (1995) is a composer and multidisciplinary artist. Her musical creation is built on relationships with other arts, drawing references from painting, literature, cinema, or installations, as well as from experiences of observing and contemplating nature and human nature. Her works have been featured at festivals such as the HARMOS Festival (2017), Festival Musica (2018), Festival Síntese (2021), Aveiro_Síntese (2022), 4th Reencontros de Música Contemporânea (2023), and in countries such as Portugal, France, Austria, and Lithuania. Her works have been performed by ensembles such as
Quarteto Contratempus,
Síntese – Grupo de Música Contemporânea, Duo Interdito, and by musicians like Jonathan Silva and Luís Salomé.
In 2024, her work
Is the timer set?, commissioned by Arte no Tempo, was premiered by the Norwegian ensemble asamisimasa, and collaborations with other renowned ensembles and musicians are expected later this year.
In 2023, her new work for philharmonic band and community choir was premiered as part of the “9 Aldeias 1 Povo" project, commissioned by Banda Musical de Loivos.
In 2022, she was the Young Composer in Residence at Casa da Música, with commissions for the
Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música,
Remix Ensemble Casa da Música, and Dialecticae Trio.
Her interest in meeting other composers and hearing their opinions and advice has led her to enroll in academies and workshops. Most recently, in 2021, she was selected for the ENOA workshop - Composing for Voices and Orchestra, led by composer Kaija Saariaho, and in 2022, as a result of this workshop, her work
embody [the spring](2022) premiered at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Between 2019 and 2021, she collaborated with the European Opera Academy – LAB in the creation and discussion of the future of opera, in Maastricht, Vilnius, and Porto. In 2019, she was selected for the Mixtur Festival, where she studied with composer Maurício Sotelo and clarinetist Renaud Guy-Rousseau, and in the same year, she participated in the Lab Summer Class academy, where she studied with composer Mathias Coppens. In 2018, she was selected for the Composition Academy - Philippe Manoury, Strasbourg, where she studied with Manoury himself, Luca Francesconi, and her piece
Traum (2018), for vocal sextet, premiered by Neue Vocalsolisten Sttutgart.
She studied at the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo (ESMAE – IPP), where she completed her bachelor's (2014-2017) and master's (2017-2021) degrees in Composition. She studied composition with
Carlos Azevedo, Filipe Vieira, and Dimitris Andrikopoulos. Under the guidance of Eugénio Amorim and Ana Isabel Freijo, she investigated the relationships between musical and pictorial elements in her creative process. The need to investigate these relationships stems from the composer's deep interest, as she is also a painter.
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Last update: February 26th, 2024
