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 Freelance Composer, Sound Designer and Percussionist for Cinema, Theater, Dance, Video Games, Multimedia and Concert. Member of the Digitopia – Casa da Música and and coordinator of the Interferência Association. Manuel Brásio was born on August 1st 1992 in Viana do Castelo, Portugal. He had his first music lessons at the age of 7 at the Escola de Música de Perre.

At 13, he joined the Music Professional School of Viana do Castelo, where he studied double bass with Sérgio Barbosa and Claudia Rodet. At the same time, he started percussion classes with Pedro Oliveira and Rui Rodrigues. He completed the percussion course in the class of Professor Jean-François Lézé in 2011. During the years of this course, he also attended private drum lessons with Mário Costa and later with Michael Lauren.

Also in 2011, Manuel Brásio won the 1st Award at the 3rd 21st Century Composition Award – Gustav Mahler with the work I need to erase for solo vibraphone. Currently he's jury member at this competition.

He attended Masterclasses and Performance Workshops with Adriano Aguiar, Jean-François Lézé, Matchume Zango, Rainer Seegers, Bruno Costa, Mario Costa, José Salgueiro, Hugo Danin, Emile Parisien, Hugo Carvalhais, Peter Evans and Marito Marques. He also had the opportunity to have contact with the work by several composers and musicologists, such as Robert Rowe, Matthew Davies, Bruce Pennycook, Filipe Lopes, Liviu Dănceanu and Cândido Lima.

In 2014, Manuel Brásio graduated from the Composition course at the ESMAE – Music and Performing Arts College in Porto, having worked with Filipe Vieira, Carlos Azevedo, Carlos Guedes, Fernando C. Lapa, Daniel Moreira, Pedro Santos, Dimitris Andrikopoulos, Eugénio Amorim, Rui Penha and Fredrick Gifford.

He participated in the European project IICS 2014 – Interdisciplinary Involvement and Community Spaces, which took place in Izmir, Turkey.

Manuel Brásio founded various musical projects, such as VHS – Viana House Session, Marquês Jam Trio & Guests. Along with colleagues from the Composition course, he was a fellow of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation within the project Experiências Musicais Contemporâneas (Contemporary Music Experience). He completed, in July 2016, the Master's in Multimedia – Interactive Music and Sound Design at the FEUP. He directs associative projects of artistic intervention, such as AISCA (Association of Social and Artistic Intervention) in Viana do Castelo and Interferência (Association of Intervention in Artistic Practice) in Porto. He also collaborated in the creation of FabLab Porto and its audiovisual studio.

Manuel Brásio has recently composed Bom dia Sophia for oboe solo, a commission by the RTP – Antena 2 (Portuguese National Broadcaster) for the Young Musician's Award 2018. He captured and created sound design for Os Estrangeiros, a documentary by Rita Al Cunha. He also created and operated the soundtrack for the national tour of FANZINE with the Montemuro Theatre, as well as presented SUPRAHUMAN a multimedia performance of his own authorship, produced by the Interferência and supported by the DGArtes, Centro Nacional de Cultura (National Culture Centre), IPDJ, Antena 2 and FabLab Porto.

EXTERNAL LINKS
Manuel Brásio's Official Website
Manuel Brásio – Soundcloud
Manuel Brásio – YouTube
Interferência
AISCA

Last update on: November 11th, 2019