João Pedro Oliveira
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| Biography | João Pedro Oliveira (*1959) is a renowned portuguese composer. He studied Organ Performance, Composition and Architecture in Lisbon and completed a Doctorate in Music at the University of New York at Stony Brook. His music includes opera, orchestral compositions, chamber music, electroacoustic music and experimental video. Throughout his career, Oliveira has received over 70 international prizes and awards for his works. Notable among these honors are the three three prizes at Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition, the prestigious Magisterium Prize and Giga-Hertz Special Award. He also claimed first prizes in competitions such as Metamorphoses, Yamaha-Visiones Sonoras Competition, and Musica Nova. He taught at Aveiro University (Portugal) and Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil). His publications include several articles in journals and a book on 20th century music theory. Currently, he holds the Corwin Endowed Chair in Composition at the University of California at Santa Barbara. ABOUT João Pedro Oliveira: «N’vi'ah» «N'vi'ah» is an Old Testament word meaning prophetess. A prophetess conveys one or more divine messages often in the form of inspired songs. And many times her words are cryptic, requiring interpretation or even translation. This work uses isolated phonemes as musical material. Intelligible words are not articulated, leaving to the listener the imagination of what their contents and meanings could be. «N'vi'ah» was commissioned by the Ibermúsicas Project, and composed at the Human Interaction Laboratory - Diego Portales University in Santiago de Chile. It is dedicated to Federico Schumacher. |
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