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Born 1948 in Lisbon, Portugal; violin, electronics.
Carlos Zíngaro undertook classical music studies at the Lisbon Music Conservatory from 1953 to 1965, and during the two years 1967/68 he studied church organ at the High School of Sacred Music. Also, during the 1960s, Zingaro was a member of the Lisbon University Chamber Orchestra. In 1967 he formed Plexus, the only Portuguese group at the time to have developed a new musical approach based on contemporary music, improvisation and rock; the group recorded a 45rpm single for RCA Victor in 1970.
From 1975 onwards Carlos Zíngaro has performed with a wide variety of improvising musicians, including: Barre Phillips, Daunik Lazro, Derek Bailey, Joëlle Léandre, Jon Rose, Kent Carter, Ned Rothenberg, Peter Kowald, Roger Turner, Rüdiger Carl, Dominique Regef, Evan Parker, Günter Müller, Andres Bosshard, Jean-marc Montera, and Paul Lovens. In 1978 he was invited by Wroclaw Technical University in Poland to participate in the 1st Instrumental Theatre Meeting, and in 1979 he won a Fulbright Grant and was invited by the Creative Music Foundation in Woodstock, New York to participate in meetings, classes and performances with such composers as Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, George Lewis, Leo Smith, Tom Cora and Richard Teitelbaum (a regular collaborator). He also gave lectures on New Notation Concepts, Movement and Sound, and the inter-relationship of Improvisation and Body Attitude. As a soloist, or with other musicians and composers, Carlos Zingaro has performed at many of the most important new music and improvising festivals in Europe, Asia and America.
A substantial level of Carlos Zíngaro's musical activities are associated with theatre, film and dance. In 1975 he completed Stage Design studies at the Lisbon Theatre High School and later served on the board of directors of the School. From 1974 to 1980 he was musical director for the Lisbon-based theatre group Comicos, being responsible for most of the original music scores performed during the period. In 1981 Carlos Zingaro received the Portuguese Critics Award for best theatre music and in 1988 he worked with the Italian theatre director Giorgio Barberio Corsetti on his Kafka Trilogy. He has also been stage and costume designer for several other theatre productions. He has produced several film scores and worked extensively with dancers and dance companies such as the Gulbenkian Dance Company, the Opéra de Genève Dance Company, Michala Marcus, Aparte, and Olga Roriz.
Carlos Zingaro was a founding member of the Lisbon-based art gallery Comicos, his work has been exhibited, and he has received several prizes for his cartoons, comics and illustrations, samples of which can be seen on a number of CD sleeves, for example, Musiques de Scène.
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Title of work | Date | Commissioning body | URL | Town | Country | Notes | Invisible Column 0 | Invisible Column |
Fragment Frame 1 | 1997 | Frankfurt Book Fair | Frankfurt | Germany | Notes | |||
Fragment Frame 2 | 2000 | Glasgow University | URL | Glasgow | United Kingdom | Notes | http://www.gla.ac.uk/ | |
Fado | 1990 | Grand Théâtre de Genève | URL | Genève | Switzerland | Notes | http://www.geneveopera.ch/ | |
Meetings | 1994 | Lisbon '94 - European Capital of Culture | Lisbon | Portugal | Notes | |||
Title of work | Name of Award | Prize | Date | Awarding body | URL | Town | Country | Notes | Invisible Column | Invisible Column 2 |
Solo - Monastère des Jerónimos | Favorite Recordings of 1994 | 1995 | Coda Magazine | Canada | Notes | The distribution of "Solo - Monastére des Jerónimos" in North America was made in 1994 | ||||
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Solo - Monastère des Jerónimos | Best Records of 1993 | 1993 | Wire Magazine | United Kingdom | Notes | |||||
Work | Type | Date | Organization/Event | Local | Town | Country | Performer(s) | Notes | Invisible Column |
L'Écho de Mon Corps Répété dans le Battement d’une Aile Murmurante | Premiere | 2006/Nov/28 | Total Meeting - Le Festival des Musiques Libres | Le Petit Faucheaux 2 | Tours | France | Carlos Zíngaro (violin, live electronics) | Notes | Francis Plisson (dance, choreography) |
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Senso - Exhibition - Drawings Installation - Video | Premiere | 2006/Nov/28 | Total Meeting - Le Festival des Musiques Libres | Le Petit Faucheaux 2 | Tours | France | Notes | ||
Carlos Zingaro | Carlos Santos | Kang Tae Hwan | Ned Rothenberg | Premiere | 2006/Nov/15 | Atlantic Waves Festival | Purcell Room | London | United Kingdom | Carlos Zingaro, Carlos Santos, Kang Tae Hwan, Ned Rothenberg | Notes | |
Offcycles #10 | Premiere | 2006/Sep/20 | Granular | Guilherme Cossoul Society | Lisbon | Portugal | Per Anders Nilsson (electronics), Carlos Zingaro (violin, electroonics) | Notes | |
ZRF Trio Concert | Performance | 2006/Sep/16 | São Jorge Cinema - Bar | Lisbon | Portugal | ZRF Trio: Carlos Zingaro (violin), Vítor Rua (guitar), Marco Franco (drums) | Notes | ||
Fado | Premiere | ~ 1990 | Tribute to Amália Rodrigues | Grand Théâtre de Genève | Genève | Switzerland | Notes | Ballets du Grand Théâtre de Genève and Amália Rodrigues Vasco Wellenkamp (choreography) | |
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