Composers

Pedro Pinto Figueiredo (b.1966), conductor and composer born in Lisbon.

He studied Composition at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (Superior Music School of Lisbon) with the composer Christopher Bochmann, and Constança Capdeville. As a Calouste Gulbenkian scholarship holder, he studied in Paris with the composer Emmanuel Nunes. There, he simultaneously participated in and finished several courses at the IRCAM.

Some of his most relevant musical productions have been Germinal, for piano and wind octet, Wake, for bass clarinet, Myshi, for solo flute, Ser, for string orchestra and Scindite, for bass clarinet, contralto and string orchestra. The focus on his musical research has been the use of new technologies, mainly on sound treatment in real time and its spatialisation, and extended instrumental techniques. His work Ser, for string orchestra, was premiered at the Dunkirk Festival of Contemporary Music, with the Paris Lyrical Orchestra in 2002.

In 1997, he started his Orchestral Conducting studies at the Dijon Conservatory, with the conductor Jean-Sébastien Béreau, having received the golden medal at the Conservatory’s finalists competition. He worked with Maestro Peter Rundel and Maestro Emílio Pomarico, in the field of contemporary music conducting, having collaborated in the first on the recording of Duktus, Epures de la serpen vert, and the opera Das Märchen, by Emmanuel Nunes. He also premiered the work La Douce by Emmanuel Nunes in 2009, as second conductor.

He was the main conductor of Orquestra do Conservatório da Metropolitana (Metropolitan Conservatory Orchestra) and he conducted the Youth Symphonic Orchestra (Orquestra Sinfónica Juvenil) and the Young Musicians Orchestra (Orquestra Jovens Músicos); he was in charge of the Orchestral Conducting Internship at the ESART, having founded and taken charge of the 15^th Edition of the International Orchestra Internship of Leiria.

Since 1992 he’s been teaching Composition and Analysis at several music conservatories, like the Superior National Orchestra Academy (Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra– ANSO), where he teached Orchestration, Analysis and made part of the board of directors. He’s also currently the headmaster of a music school in Linda-a-Velha, Lisbon, where he conducts the Contemporary Music Atelier, and is in charge of the production and artistic direction of all the programs and projects.

In 2002 he started the projects Orquestra A2M – Arquivo da Memória Musical (Orchestra A2M – Musical Memory Archive) and in 2003 the contemporary music group Lisbon Ensemble 20/21.

In 2003, he made his debut in Portugal with the Orquestra Filarmonia das Beiras, having since then conducted several groups and orchestras, nationally and abroad such as: Orquestra do Algarve, Orquestra de Câmara de Almada, OrquestrUtópica, Grupo de Música Contemporânea de Lisboa, Orquestra Gulbenkian, Vertixe Sonora, New Babylon and Remix Ensemble Casa da Música.

Being one of the Founders of the Portuguese Composers Association (APC), he is currently president of the board.

Last update: December 13^th, 2022

Work	Type	Date	Organization/Event	Local	Town	Country	Performer(s)	Notes	Invisible Column
Amini	Premiere	2022/Nov/24	Música Viva 2022 Festival · Antena 2 Recital	O'culto da Ajuda	Lisbon	Portugal	Ipsis Duo: Clara Saleiro and Marina Camponês (flutes)	Notes
WAKE! First we feel, than we fall...	Premiere	2021/Mar/21	DME Festival	Lisboa Incomum	Lisbon	Portugal	Luís Gomes (bass clarinet)	Notes	on-line concert
on-line concert
Ligetiana	Performance	2008/Mar/19	Seia Conservatory of Music / Electroacoustic Music Days	Seia Conservatory of Music	Seia	Portugal	Linda-a-Velha Contemporary Music Atelier Pedro Pinto Figueiredo (conductor)	Notes
Ser	Pre-premiere	2002/Mar/19	Dunkerque Contemporary Music Festival		Dunkerque	France	Paris Lyric Orchestra	Notes
Wake	Premiere	1998/Jul/08		Metropolitana Headquarters	Lisbon	Portugal		Notes

	Type (+ sub-type)	Cover/edition title Document title	Authors	Referring to	Publisher	Date
	Texts Article	GMCL 50 Grupo de Música Contemporânea de Lisboa 1970-2020  Pedro Figueiredo · Intimidade, disponibilidade e património	Pedro Pinto Figueiredo	Grupo de Música Contemporânea de Lisboa	AvA Musical Musical Editions	2020 2020
	Texts Article	Clotilde Rosa · In Memoriam 1930-2017  Pedro Figueiredo · Two Points on a curve	Pedro Pinto Figueiredo	Clotilde Rosa	AvA Musical Editions	2020 2020
	Texts Article	Arte Musical IV Série - nº 3  Entrevista com o Compositor Luís Filipe Pires	Pedro Pinto Figueiredo	Filipe Pires	Juventude Musical Portuguesa	1996
	Texts Interview	Arte Musical IV Série - nº 14  Emmanuel Nunes, Compositor por Vontade ou por "Acaso"	Pedro Pinto Figueiredo Emmanuel Nunes	Emmanuel Nunes	Juventude Musical Portuguesa	1999