luís antunes pena
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Composer of electroacoustic and instrumental music, Luís Antunes Pena was born in 1973 in Lisbon/Portugal. He is currently based in Cologne/Germany. His compositions result from the intensive work on computer generated structures based on the development of his own computer tools, reflecting his interest in new forms of rhythm and noise. 2013 was released the portrait CD Terrains Vagues and 2015 the CD Caffeine from the Edition Zeitgenssische Musik / Wergo / German Council of Music. His music is heard regularly in national and international festivals played by renowned ensembles like the mosaik ensemble, asamisimasa, nadar, hand werk or remix ensemble.
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Luís Antunes Pena was born in Lisbon in 1973. He studied Piano and Solfeggio privately while studying Electronics engineering and before starting with the composition studies with the Russian teacher Evgueni Zoudilkine. At the same time attends the composition seminars of Emmanuel Nunes at the Gulbenkian Foundation. Between 1996 and 1999 studies at the Superior Music School of Lisbon with Christopher Bochmann and Antonio Pinho Vargas. He attended numerous summer courses of composition in Paris, Darmstadt, Berlin and Brescia. Particularly important was the course with Gérard Grisey in IRCAM in 1998. During 1997 and 1999 he teaches Composition in several music schools in Lisbon and 1997 he was one of the creators and artistic directors of the annual contemporary music festival Jornadas Nova Música at the city of Aveiro, Portugal (1997-2002).
In 1999 he went to Germany to continue his studies of composition with Nicolaus A. Huber at the Folkwang University of Arts in Essen. At the same time started the studies of electronic music at the ICEM (Institut für Computermusik und Elektronische Medien) with Dirk Reith and later with Günter Steinke. In 2004 he concluded his studies of composition with distinction and wrote a dissertation on Helmut Lachenmann's Mouvement (-vor der Erstarrung).
His compositions result from the intensive work on computer generated structures based on the development of his own computer tools. In the last production he reflects an interest in new forms of rhythm, noise and the social environment of Art and Music.
His music has been played all over Europe, USA, Asia and South America. He won composition prizes at the Salvatore Martirano Memorial Award Competition Competition (Illinois/USA), Eastman Computer Music Center 25th Anniversary International Electroacoustic Music Competition (Rochester/USA) at the 11th Summer Seminar from Vienna, at the contests Óscar da Silva and Lopes Graça (Portugal), and his music has been distinguished and selected several festivals such asthe ISCM Festivals in Miami, the World Music Days Stuttgart, the 32e Concours International de Musique et d'Art Sonore Electroacoustiques de Bourges, the International Computer Music Conference, the Festival Internazionale di Musica Elettroacustica del Conservatorio Santa Cecilia di Roma, or the Mantis Festival of the University of Manchester.
He was granted the scholarship of the Foundation for Science and Technology from the Portuguese Ministry for Science and Education, the “MozArt 250” scholarship from the Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland, the ZKM | Karlsruhe, and from the Experimentalstudio Freiburg. He worked at the studios of the ZKM and at the Visby Composers Centre (Sweden).
He has had commissions from different institutions such as the SWR, WDR, Casa da Música, Philharmonie Essen, DeutschlandRadio, Deutscher Musikrat, the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Jeneusses Musicales Deutschland, the ZKM | Karlsruhe, the Caloust Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon), and the Christoph Delz Stiftung (Basel).
He worked at the Hochschule für Musik Karslruhe teaching Computer Music and Analysis as well as at the Musikhochschule Trossingen. 2010 he was Composer in Residence at the Kunst-Station Sankt Peter in Cologne and at the Villa Concordia Bamberg.
His music is published in several CDs including the 2016 portrait CD Caffeine from the Edition Zeitgenössische Musik / Wergo / German Council of Music. 2013 was released his first portrait CD Terrains Vagues in Cooperation with the ZKM | Karlsruhe and the Villa Concordia Bamberg.
His music is heard regularly by renowned ensembles like the mosaik ensemble, asamisimasa, nadar, hand werk or remix ensemble.
2008 he joined the music publisher sumtone.
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Caffeine
Portrait CD Edition Zeitgenössische Musik 2016
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Read more: Critic in Público and at Beckmesser
Portrait CD Terrains Vagues was just released!
With Drumming - Grupo de Percução, Miquel Bernat, Edicson Ruiz, Dominik Susteck, Francesco Dillon and Nuno Aroso.
A production of the Villa Concordia Bamberg and the ZKM | Karlsruhe
CD available at Wergo
Im Bewusstsein der Ungewissheit eine Sendung von Georg Waßmuth | October 2013 | DLF Atelier neuer Musik
Kippfigur in Porfólio | October 2013 | Saxofínia Saxophon Quartet
Im Rauschen Rot (->) was recently awarded with the first prize at the 2013 Salvatore Martirano Composition Award (Illinois, USA)
MIC.PT Luís Antunes Pena "In Focus" in January
NEW CD including IN HYPERVENTILATION for orchestra | Orchester des Staatstheaters Cottbus, Evan Christ, conductor
MUSIC FOR 30 METALS After the recording at ZKM | Karlsruhe I'm now editing the audio files for the CD production. Great instruments with incredible sounds!
PORTRAIT CD The jury of the German Council of Music recently selected four new composers for the CD-Series Edition Zeitgenössiche Musik including a new portrait CD with my music. read more
Music available at sumtone http://sumtone.com