Luís Carvalho (1974 - )
Clarinetist, conductor and composer, Luís Carvalho (b.1974) is one of the most versatile Portuguese artists of his generation. He studied clarinet and composition in Oporto (with António Saiote and Fernando C. Lapa, respectively), where he was granted the «Prize for the best student of the year» of ESMAE (1994), having also studied with Michel Arrignon, Jacques di Donato and Alain Damiens (clarinet), and in workshops and lectures with composers Luis de Pablo (Spain) and Magnus Lindberg (Finland). In Milan, S. Petersburg and Madrid he studied orchestra conducting with Jorma Panula, Jesus López-Cóbos, and with Arturo Tamayo for contemporary music conducting. Mr. Carvalho played recitals and concerts all over Europe, Northern Africa, the Middle-East and Asia, many times premiering his own or other Portuguese and foreign oeuvres. Debuting on the podium in 1999, Mr. Carvalho already conducted some of the finest Portuguese orchestras, and abroad he appeared conducting in Russia, Italy, Finland, Spain and Hungary. His repertoire is vast and eclectic, ranging from the baroque to the contemporary, always with a special interest in Portuguese music, and including several premieres, as in the case of Manuel Faria’s opera «Tale of the foundation of the city of Coimbra» (2004). Of his own compositions «Metamorphoses… hommage à M. C. Escher» (2009) for orchestra (a prize-winner at the 4th International Póvoa de Varzim Composition Competition) and «Fantastic Variations» (2009) for symphonic wind band (on CD by AFINAUDIO label) should be pointed out, as well as several chamber music including «Sax-suite» for saxophone quartet (on CD by NUMÉRICA label). Mr. Carvalho also prepared numerous arrangements and orchestrations for the most diverse ensembles, and revised and presented piano reductions for all of the clarinet concertos by eighteen-century Portuguese clarinetist and composer José Avelino Canongia as part of his Master’s thesis, while his ongoing Doctorate will lean over Gustav Mahler’s «Tenth Symphony in f#-major», on the scope of which a new orchestration of the work will be presented. Mr. Carvalho is at the present on the faculty of the Aveiro University.
This composer has 9 works on AvA:
Metamorphoses… homage à M. C. Escher
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