Diogo Alvim (1979 - )
Diogo Alvim (Lisbon, 1979), architect (Dipl. 2004) and composer.Currently (2009) finishing the Composition Course at the Lisbon Music School. He has studied with composers Sérgio Azevedo, João Madureira, Carlos Caires and Luis Tinoco. He has also studied Harpsichord at the Lisbon National Conservatoire. From 2004 to 2006 he lived and worked in London as an architect. During that period, he attended a course on Computer Music at the London School of Contemporary Music and the course “Compose and Perform” at the Goldsmiths University with composer Fumiko Miyachi. He attended the 2008 and 2009 Gulbenkian Composition Seminars with Emmanuel Nunes, and participated in the 6th and 7th editions of the Gulbenkian Orchestra's Workshop, with the pieces “Pequeno Concerto para Clarinete e Paisagem” (Esther Georgie, cl.), and “Concatenação”, both conducted by Joana Carneiro. The first one represented the portuguese radio Antena 2 at the International Rostrum of Composers (Unesco) in Paris, 2009.In July 2008, his piece “Topografia” was played at a “first reading” concert by OrchestrUtopica with conductor Cesário Costa, held at the Portuguese Music Festival, in CCB, Lisbon.His acousmatic piece “Distância (Ocupação_3)”, was selected for the Festival Synthese 2009, Bourges.The piece "Shift" for clarinet solo, was comissioned by the Portuguese Rario Antena 2, for the Young Musicians Award 2009.