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First name: Alexandre
Last name: Delgado
Dates: 1965
Category: Quartet
Nationality: Portuguese
Opus name: Canteto quarteto con piano (other instruments unknown)
Publisher: AVA
Peculiarities: http://www.editions-ava.com/store/work/850/
Information: Alexandre Delgado (Lisbon, 1965). Studied at the Fundacao Musical dos Amigos das Crianaas, in Lisbon. In composition he was a private pupil of Joly Braga Santos (1924-1988) and studied in France in the class of Jacques Charpentier, graduating with the 1st Award of the Nice Conservatoire in 1990. His production includes specially chamber music (String Quartet, Burlesca, Langaré, The Panic Flirt), concertos (Flute Concerto, Viola Concerto) and vocal and dramatic music (Turbilhao, Poema de Deus e do Diabo, O Doido e a Morte). His chamber opera O Doido e a Morte (Death and the Madman, 1993) was premiered in Lisbon at the Teatro Nacional de SÃao Carlos and in Berlim at the Theater Am Halleschen Ufer, under his direction. His works have been chosen for some of the World Music Days and he received several comissions from international music festivals. As a viola player, he won the Jovens Musicos Award in 1987, premiered as a soloist his Viola Concerto in Portugal, Spain and Holland and is a member of the Quarteto Lacerda and of the Moscow Piano Quartet. Artistic Director of the Alcoba Music Festival since 2002.