filipe pires

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Filipe Pires (June 1934 - February 2015) was a Portuguese composer born in Lisbon but who later lived in Porto from 1960 until his death. He was the author of several vocal, instrumental and electroacoustic pieces in the chamber music, symphonic music, musical theatre and dance. He started his career as a pianist right after the Portuguese Musical Youth awarded him a First Prize in 1950. Some years later he completed courses in Piano and Composition at Lisbon’s National Conservatory, where he was taught by Artur Santos, Lúcio Mendes and Croner de Vasconcellos, before continuing his studies in Hannover (Germany) and Salzburg (Austria) between 1957 and 1960 with a scholarship from the Institute of Higher Culture. Later he would also attend the Darmstadt summer courses between 1963 and 1965 with a Gulbenkian Foundation scholarship, being taught by Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and was also in a two year internship with Pierre Schaeffer in Paris dedicated to electroacoustic music. After returning to Portugal in 1960, he was appointed Composition lecturer at Porto’s Music Conservatory and held the position for ten years. During this time he also lectured at the Braga Regional Conservatory and at the Vila da Feira Music Academy, and later he taught at the Lisbon Conservatory, where he introduced the Electroacoustics subject. He was also later a part of the founding team of ESMAE (School of Music and Performing Arts) in Porto. Between 1975 and 1979 Filipe Pires returne

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Antologia De Música Electrónica Portugesa

Antologia De Música Electrónica Portuguesa

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Filipe Pires: Canto Ecuménico - Litania - Homo Sapiens

Figurações

Filipe Pires: Chamber Music

Canto Ecuménico / Litania / Homo Sapiens

Canto Ecuménico

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Canto Ecuménico • Litania • Homo Sapiens

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Portuguese Nuggets vol. 1

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Canto Ecuménico - Litania - Homo Sapiens

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Antologia de Musica Electronica Portuguesa

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Canto Ecuménico/Litania/Homo Sapiens

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