NUM 1122
Title: In Omni Tempore
Artist: Ana Telles Antunes, Alexander Stewart, Alexandre Delgado, Jorge Correia
Composer: João Pedro Oliveira
João Pedro Oliveira is one of the most prominent Portuguese composers of his generation. He began his music studies at the Gregorian Institute of Lisbon where he studied organ performance. From 1985 to 1990 he moved to the US as a Fulbright student, with a fellowship from Gulbenkian Foundations, where he completed a PhD and two MA’s in Music at the University of New York at Stony Brook.
Main Prizes:
Magisterium Prize in Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition (France) – 2008
Giga Hertz Award. 2008.
1st Prize in Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition (France) – 2007
1st Prize in Roma Soundtrack Competition (Italy) – 2007
1st Prize in Yamaha-Visiones Sonoras Competition (Mexico) – 2007
1st Prize in Musica Nova competition (Czech Republic) – 2007
1st Prize in Metamorphoses competition (Belgium) – 2006
Honorable Mention in Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition (France) – 2005
Selected work in Tribune Internacionale de Musique Electroacoustique (Italy) – 2005
1st Prize in Musica Nova competition (Czech Republic)- 2005
2nd Prize in S. Paulo Electroacoustic Music Competition (Brasil) – 2005
1st Prize in Earplay competition (USA) – 2003
1st Prize in Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition (France) – 2002
1st Prize in Alea III Competition (USA) – 1996
Recently he has been exploring the possibilities of interaction between instrumental and electroacoustic sounds, and most of his recent works use both media.
He is Senior Professor at Aveiro University (Portugal) and teaches composition, electroacoustic music and analysis. He contributed to the development of a new generation of Portuguese composers, and many of his students already received national and international awards.
He published several articles in journals, and has written a book about analysis and 20th century music theory.
(www.jpoliveira.com)
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Classical & Contemporary Music 