Paulo Álvares

Paulo Sérgio Guimarães Álvares (* 1960 in Belo Horizonte ) is a Brazilian pianist who lives in Cologne . His artistic focus is new music and improvised music .

Paulo Álvares studied piano with Caio Pagano in São Paulo and with Steven de Groote in Texas from 1985 to 1987 . In 1988 he came to Cologne on a DAAD scholarship to study with Aloys Kontarsky . In the 1990s he conducted research at IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique / Musique) in Paris on the relationship between piano and live electronics. In 1997 he became a lecturer in improvisation, piano and song accompaniment improvisation at the Cologne University of Music .

Paulo Álvares appears as a soloist, but also works in the radio orchestra of the WDR , the musikFabrik and various ensembles for contemporary music. In 1999 he founded the Ensemble for “Improvisation and Aleatoric Music ” (EIAM). Among other things, he has recorded the complete works for piano by Mauricio Kagel and Gerhard Stäbler on CD .

In 1990 he received the Kranichstein Music Prize (as part of the Darmstadt summer courses ). In 1991 he won first prize in the “Musik Kreativ” competition with “aleatoric mobiles” for keyboard and orchestra.

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SURNAME	Álvares, Paulo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Álvares, Paulo Sérgio Guimarães (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Brazilian pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	1960
PLACE OF BIRTH	Belo Horizonte