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Artist
Luís Antunes Pena
5+ albums
electro-acousticgammarec2jumaportuguese avant-garde
about
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 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. His interest in new forms of rhythm and noise are an important aspect of the latest pr
