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Composition studies with Fernando Lapa at the Conservatório de Música do Porto from 1994-97 with Christopher Bochmann and António Pinho Vargas at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa from 1997-2001 and with Klaas de Vries at the Hogeschool voor Muziek en Dans, Rotterdam (2003 - 2004) . In addition, he has attended masterclasses with Philippe Hurel, Helmut Lachenmann, Emmanuel Nunes, Jorge Peixinho and Salvatore Sciarrino.
His honours include a Honourable Mention in the Lopes Graça Composition Award (2004).
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Blessures | 2005 | OrchestrUtopica | Portugal | Notes | ||||
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chiarezza lontana, respiro affannoso | Lopes-Graça Composition Award | 2004 | Cascais Municipality / Portuguese Music Museum | URL | Cascais | Portugal | Notes | http://www.cm-cascais.pt/ | The members of the jury were composers Evgueni Zoudilkine and Sérgio Azevedo and conducter Nikolay Lalov | |
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chiarezza lontana, respiro affannoso | Performance | 2009/Sep/28 | ISCM - International Society for Contemporary Music | Växjö Konserthus - Christina Nilsson-salen | Växjö | Sweden | Musica Vitae, Staffan Larson (conductor) | Notes | World New Music Days 2009 selected work |
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i do not know what is it about you that closes and opens | Performance | 2008/Mar/27 | o Moreau Center for the Arts - Saint Mary's College | Notre Dame - Indiana | United States of America | Ensemble Claricello | Notes | ||
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me | Premiere | 2006/Oct/25 | Música Viva 2006 Festival | Belém Cultural Centre - Small Hall | Lisbon | Portugal | Youth Symphony Orchestra Christopher Bochmann (conductor) | Notes | |
chiarezza lontana, respiro affannoso | Premiere | 2006/Mar/25 | 4th Gulbenkian Workshop for Young Portuguese Composers | Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - Great Hall | Lisbon | Portugal | Members of the Gulbenkian Orchestra Guillaume Bourgogne (conductor) | Notes | |
Blessures | Premiere | 2005/Sep/27 | Orient Express Festival | Portugal | OrchestrUtopica | Notes | |||
Tangente | Premiere | 2005/Jan/22 | 3rd Workshop for Young Portuguese Composers | Culturgest | Lisbon | Portugal | Gulbenkian Orchestra Guillaume Bourgogne (conductor) | Notes | |
a vida, aqui, reduz-se a efémeros passos, surdas gargalhadas, ideias que se evaporam lentamente | Premiere | 2003/Nov/25 | The Unanswered Question | Lantaren/Venster | Rotterdam | Netherlands | Maarten Bout (clarinet) | Notes | |
la materia incoherente y vertiginosa de que se componen los sueños | Performance | 2001/Dec/21 | 5th New Music Journeys | Contemporary Art Museum - Serralves Hall | Oporto | Portugal | New Music Journeys Orchestra Beat Furrer (conductor) | Notes | |
la materia incoherente y vertiginosa de que se componen los sueños | Premiere | 2001/Dec/20 | 5th New Music Journeys | University of Aveiro - Arts and Communication Department - Hall | Aveiro | Portugal | New Music Journeys Orchestra Beat Furrer (conductor) | Notes | |
sara | Performance | 1999/Dec/19 | 3rd New Music Journeys | Serralves Foundation | Oporto | Portugal | New Music Journeys Orchestra Wolfgang Niessner (conductor) | Notes | |
sara | Premiere | 1999/Dec/18 | 3rd New Music Journeys | University of Aveiro - Arts and Communication Department - Hall | Aveiro | Portugal | New Music Journeys Orchestra Wolfgang Niessner (conductor) | Notes | |