The secondary composition course is part of specialized artistic music education and is intended for students who wish to deepen their understanding of the theory and practice of musical writing. Rigorously organized, this educational path can be attended in the articulated or supplementary regimes and articulates three essential components: general, scientific, and artistic-technical education.
The central focus of this variant is the subject of Composition, in which, over the three years, the student develops their musical writing creativity (composition) and a strong ability to recognize formal, timbral, rhythmic, and harmonic characteristics. This training offers vital tools to pursue higher education in the field of composition.
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Pedro Louzeiro
Music Theory, A.T.C., Composition
Pedro Louzeiro (1975), composer, born in Lagos. He teaches at the Conservatório de Música de Loulé – Francisco Rosado. He holds a PhD in Composition from the University of Évora, where he researched themes related to soloist–ensemble interaction mediated by real-time notation systems, as an FCT scholarship holder. He holds a Master's degree in Composition from the University of Évora (2013) and a Bachelor's degree in Music Theory from ESML (2002). He has performed extensively with the Comprovisador system, which he developed as part of his doctorate, presenting his work at international conferences, e.g.: SMC2016, Hamburgo, SMC2018, Limassol, CMMR2017, Matosinhos, CMMR2019, Marselha, ICMC2017, Xangai, TENOR2018, Montréal, and TENOR2020/21, Hamburgo. He was awarded 2nd Prize in the II Goffredo Petrassi International Composition Competition for Guitar (Roma, 2012), and received Honourable Mentions in the X Carl von Ossietzky International Composition Competition (Oldenburg, 2010) and the IV Fernando Lopes-Graça International Composition Prize (Cascais, 2014).
Notable works include: “Proclamação” (2010) – a work commissioned to mark the Centenary of the Portuguese Republic; “Água – a Seiva da Terra” (2011) – a work commissioned to commemorate World Water Day; “Garb’urlesco” (2019), for ensemble, multichannel electronics and animated score; “HydroSonics” and “HydroSonics 2” (2023), for percussion and multichannel electronics – works based on the sonification of hydrological time series data from the Algarve.