Biography

Luis Tinoco (b. 1969, Lisbon) made his First Degree in composition at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa. He was then awarded with scholarships by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Centro Nacional de Cultura to complete a Masters degree in Composition at the Royal Academy of Music, in London. Recently, he completed his PhD Music research at the University of York.

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Música

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Round Time
Orquestra Nacional do Porto, dir. Cesário Costa

Antipode
Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, dir.: Lorraine Vaillancourt

Next Train Approaching
(2º and. de "Mind the Gap"): Pedro Carneiro

Short Cuts (C), excerpt
Chicago Symphony soloists, cond. by. Cliff Colnot - (live performance)

Diptych - for piano and orchestra
António Rosado (pno.), Orquestra Nacional do Porto, dir.: Martin André

"Dr. Maxman" - 5th movement from "Spam!", for baritone and 16 musicians.
Mário Redondo (voz / voice); OrchestrUtopica, dir. René Bosc (gravação ao vivo / live performance recording)

"Forgotten Places" - 3rd mov.
Lontano Ensemble

"Trois Poèmes de l'Orient" - 3rd mov., excerpt
Eileen Hulse (sopr.), Lontano Ensemble, dir. Odaline de La Martinez

"Invention on Landscape", excerpt
Lontano Ensemble, dir. Odaline de La Martinez

Ends Meet - 4th movement
Pedro Carneiro (mar.) e Quarteto Arditti

Search Songs - 3rd movement
Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música, Piia Komsi (sop.), dir. Martin André

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May 10 2012
Help "Crowdfunding" Luis Tinoco's new CD
Thursday, 10 May 2012
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Luís Tinoco is working on a new CD project due to be released in 2013 on Naxos. This "Crowdfunding" platform is supporting this project.
 
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The recording sessions with the Gulbenkian Orchestra lead by the American conductor David Alan Miller will take place between the 12th and the 16th of June 2012, at the Gulbenkian Foundation's auditorium, and will also feature three internationally renowned sopranos: Yeree Suh, Ana Quintans and Raquel Camarinha.
Four orchestral works  will be recorded on this CD, all written by Luís Tinoco during the last ten years: "Round Time" (2002), for symphony orchestra; "Search Songs" (2007), for soprano and orchestra – setting poems by Alexander Search (Fernando Pessoa); "From the Depth of Distance" (2008), for soprano and orchestra – setting poems by Walt Whitman and Álvaro de Campos (F. Pessoa); and "Songs from The Solitary Dreamer" (2011-12), also for soprano and orchestra – setting texts by Almeida Faria.
 
Apr 28 2012
"Descubro a Voz" - World première
Saturday, 28 April 2012
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On the 28th of April - 4 p.m., at the Belem Cultural Centre in Lisbon, the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir conducted by Daniel Reuss will give the World Première for "Descubro a Voz" - composed by Luís Tinoco, setting a poem by José Luís Tinoco.
 
The remaining program of this concert presented within the festival "Music Days - The Human Voice", includes other works by Cyrillus Kreek, Arvo Pärt, Alfred Schnittke and Eurico Carrapatoso.

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Mar 01 2012
Short Cuts in Manchester
Thursday, 01 March 2012

On the 1st of March - 7.30 p.m., the Apollo Saxophone Quartet will give another performance of Luís Tinoco's Short Cuts at the Axis Theatre in Manchester.

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The concert programme is a retrospective of the quartet's 25 years, with a composition selected from each of the groups 6 landmark CD recordings, and will also feature a 20 minute set from the group’s ground-breaking music with black & white film project ‘Journey Across The Impossible’.

 
Feb 26 2012
ICEBREAKER VI - "Three Poems From the East"
Sunday, 26 February 2012
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On Sunday the 26th February, as part of the festival ICEBREAKER VI, Luís Tinoco's Three Poems From the East will be performed by the Polish soprano Agata Zubel and by the Seattle Chamber Players.

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This recital will be given at the Benaroya Hall in Seattle, At 07.00 p.m. and will feature other works by Yitzhak Yedid (Israel), Nabil Benabdeljalil (Morocco), Mohammed Fairouz (Egypt/Lebanon), Salim Dada (Algeria), Aleksander Peci (Albania) and Fazil Say (Turkey). 
 
 
Click here to watch a sample of this work.
 
Feb 20 2012
Tinoco on Youtube
Monday, 20 February 2012
Click on the following links to watch and hear some fragments of chamber, stage and orchestral music:
 
Search Songs - orchestral songs
Wanderings of the Solitary Dreamer - cantata
Round Time (fragment 1) - symphony orchestra
Round Time (fragment 2) - symphony orchestra
Diptych - for piano and orchestra
The Fast Road - speaker and orchestra
Three Raindrops - speaker and orchestra
Antípoda - chamber orchestra
Invention on Landscape - chamber orchestra
Before Spring - chamber orchestra
  Paint Me (1) - opera
Paint Me (2) - opera
Evil Machines - music theatre
Dr. MaxMan (5th mov. from "Spam!") - voice & ensemble
Trois Poèmes de L'Orient - soprano & chamber ensemble
O Curso das Águas - chamber
Ends Meet - chamber
Lugares Esquecidos - chamber
Short Cuts - chamber
Mind the Gap - marimba solo
 
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