Estudo para Clarinete e Eletrónica (2019)
didactic piece for clarinet & electronics

Commissioned by Arte no Tempo for the project "Nova Música para Novos Músicos"

Estudo para Clarinete e Eletrónica (2019) – for clarinet & electronics

THIS PIECE HAD A DIFFERENT NAME
for orchestra
2018/19

Performed by Jovem Orquestra Portuguesa
Conducted by Pedro Carneiro

Watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/DpSCuS3ml0c

Live at
Festival Prémio Jovens Músicos, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon, PT)
02.10.2021

audio recording - RTP / Antena 2
audio editing - João Carlos Pinto, RTP / Antena 2

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THIS PIECE HAD A DIFFERENT NAME (2018/19) - for orchestra

STUDIES FOR FIGURES AND FORMS
for flute, detuned clarinet, prepared piano and string quartet
2020/21

Excerpt of the 1st movement @ Fundação de Serralves (Porto, PT)

Performed by ensemble ars ad hoc
Ricardo Carvalho . flute
Horácio Ferreira . detuned clarinet
João Casimiro Almeida . prepared piano
Álvaro Pereira and Diogo Coelho . violins
Ricardo Gaspar . viola
Gonçalo Lélis . cello

Curated by Diana Ferreira
Video by Salomé Produções
Commission financed by DGArtes and EEA Grants

Watch video documentary here: https://youtu.be/lqYBaQn_2LU

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Studies for Figures and Forms (2020/21) - for ensemble [excerpt]

Saxophone Concerto
for saxophone and orchestra

Commissioned by Arte no Tempo and Aveiro City Council

Luís Salomé . saxophone
Orquestra Filarmonia das Beiras
conducted by Nuno Coelho

Live recording @ Teatro Aveirense (Aveiro, PT)

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Saxophone Concerto (2021) - for saxophone & orchestra

La Vie
for bass flute & prepared piano

Commissioned by Arte no Tempo 

Ricardo Carvalho > bass flute flute
João Casimiro Almeida > prepared piano

Live recording @ GrETUA (Aveiro, PT)
[excerpt from the last movement]

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La Vie (2020) - for bass flute & prepared piano [excerpt]

Music for Percussion
for 7 percussion players spatialized around the audience

Performed by
Pedro Carneiro, Miquel Bernat, João Dias, Eduardo Cardinho, Marco Fernandes, Bruno Costa and Miguel Herrera

Commissioned by Arte no Tempo
Financed by Direcção Geral das Artes

Live @ Casa da Música (Porto, PT)

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/HNQABqk39_I?si=Gj6Uvaw2AavLUbpE

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Music for Percussion (2020) - 7 percussion players

Nadir (2017), for wind orchestra
Portuguese Symphonic Band [BSP] conducted by Pedro Neves
Live recording, Casa da Música, Porto 2018

{ Prize winner - VI Composition Competition by BSP }

Nadir (2017) - for wind orchestra [excerpt]

Pocket-Opera for 12 people,
created and performed in 5 days at Estúdios Victor Córdon – part of the program Young Composers 2019 (with collaboration of São Carlos National Theatre and Companhia Nacional de Bailado)

by João Carlos Pinto
with text by Miguel Castro Caldas

Watch the video at: https://youtu.be/BbT4WA6IQmo

[excerpts from the Live Premiere]

2019

Mas eu às vezes tenho um pesadelo, Um pesadelo em que estou onde estou (2019) [video below]

NODUS – João Carlos Pinto
© 2019 Lisbon

//PT//
Nó (latim: nodus [ponto intrincado], -i)
O plural de Nó somos Nós.

//EN//
Knot (in portuguese comes from the latin: nodus [intricate point], -i)
The plural of Knot (nó) it's us (nós).

Warning: may contain reversed Thom Yorke.

NODUS

Impulso[s] (2018)
for piano solo

Commissioned by RTP / Antena 2 for the 33rd edition of Prémio Jovens Músicos

Performed by Rui Pedro Braga Simões
Live recording @ gnration, Braga 2019

Photo by Hugo Sousa / gnration

João Carlos Pinto

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