Alexandre Delgado

Alexandre Delgado (* 1965 in Lisbon , Portugal ) is a Portuguese composer, conductor, music critic, music theorist, violinist and music editor with a focus on chamber and orchestral music.

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He is the great-great-grandson of the composer Carlos de Andrade. Delgado studied violin and music at a music school for children and young people in Portugal from 1978 to 1985 and with the composer Joly Braga Santos from 1981 to 1985.

At the age of sixteen he wrote his first composition "Preludio", which was performed in 1982 by the RDP Orquestra Sinfonia. In 1982 he graduated in musicology in Lisbon; From 1986 to 1989 he studied composition and violin in Nice , graduating in 1989 under Jacques Charpentier .

As a violinist, he was a member of the Youth Orchestra of the European Union from 1988 and 1989 under the direction of Claudio Abbado and Zubin Mehta, and in the Gulbenkian Orquestra from 1991 to 1995. He was also a co-founder of the Quarteto Lacerda, named after the composer Francisco de Lacerda .

Delgado has participated in various composition and young music competitions, for example in Wales , London , Maastricht and Mexico City .

In Germany, his chamber opera "O Doido ea morte", based on a story by Raul Brandão, was performed at the Theater am Halleschen Ufer in Berlin from 1994 to 1996 .

From 1991 to 2001 he worked as a music critic for the newspaper Publico .

Since 2002 he has been artistic director of the Festival de Musica de Alcobaça .

In musicology he dealt with symphonics in Portugal, in addition he wrote the book "A sinfonia em Portugal", (The Symphonic Music in Portugal), in 2002 and did research on the composer Luís de Freitas Branco .

He is a member of the Moscow Piano Quartet and has been professor of violin at the University of Music in Lisbon since 2014 and has also been the music editor for Antena 2, a radio station, since 1996.

Works (selection)

Preludio, 1981.
Antagonia, 1993.
O Doido ea morte, (Chamber Opera), 1994.
Concerto para Viola e Orquestra, 2000.
Tresvariações, 2001
Quarteto de Cordas, 2001.
Poema de deus e de diabo, 2002.

Awards (selection)

In 1987 he received the Premio de Jovens Musicos.
1990 Premio 1st class de Conservatorio de Nice.
In 1992 he received the Premio Jõao de Freitas Branco

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SURNAME	Delgado, Alexandre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Portuguese composer, conductor, music critic, music theorist, violinist and music editor
DATE OF BIRTH	1965
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lisbon , Portugal