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 Carlos Caires (b. 1968, Lisbon) made his First Degree in composition at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa. He was the awarded with scholarship by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia to complete a Doctorate degree at Paris8 University-Paris, supervised by Horacio Vaggione. His music as been performed in several festivals in Europe and Asia. In Portugal at festival Dos 100 Dias/Expo'98, Música Viva  2003, 2006 and 2008, at festival d’Estoril  2004, de Leiria and at Música Portuguesa Hoje-CCB both in 2008 ; at the United Kingdom, at Atlantic Waves Festival 2004 ; in Germany, at the Dresden Festival and the Berliner Festspiele in 2005 and 2008 ; in China, at the  Shanghai International Electroacoustic Week 2009. He receives in 1995 the Joly Braga Santos Composition prize for Al Niente, in 1996, the Claudio Carneyro Prize with Wordpainting, and in 1998, the ACARTE prize for Retábulo-Melodrama. As a researcher, Carlos Caires develops the micromontage software IRIN, a project started during his doctorat at the CICM (Centre de recherche Informatique et Création Musicale at Paris8 University) and continued at the CITAR (Research Center For Science and Technology in Art) at Porto. At the present time, Carlos Caires lives in Lisbon and teaches at Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa. EXTERNAL LINKS: Carlos Caires