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Alexandre Delgado was born in Lisbon on 1965. Portuguese composer of mostly orchestral and chamber works that have been performed across Europe very successfully. He is also a talented violist.
Mr. Delgado began his musical studies with the pianist Fátima Fraga and studied chamber music and violin at the Fundação Musical dos Amigos das Crianças from 1978-85, where he was concertmaster and conductor of the youth orchestra. He was a private pupil of Joly Braga-Santos from 1981-85, and his Prelúdio for strings, written at age 16, was first performed in Lisbon in 1982 by the Radio Symphony Orchestra.
He graduated in composition and violin as an external student of the Conservatório de Música in Lisbon in 1982. He studied composition with Jacques Charpentier in France from 1986-89 (with a scholarship from the Portuguese Ministry of Culture), graduating with distinction at the Nice Conservatoire.
As a violist, he studied with Barbara Friedhoff, graduating in France with distinction and winning the "Young Musicians Award" in Lisbon in 1987. He was a member of the European Community Youth Orchestra (1988-89), musical assistant to the RDP (Portuguese Radio, 1989-91) and a member of the Gulbenkian Orchestra (1991-95).
He is a founding member of the Lacerda String Quartet and keeps an intense involvement in chamber music, having premièred several works of his own and of his colleagues. He recently gave two recitals with piano in Rome and Paris with Bruno Belthoise, with whom he recorded a CD in December 2001 (featuring the Sonatina by Armando José Fernandes, for Coriolan).
As a composer, Mr. Delgado has won many awards, including the "João de Freitas Branco Award" (1992), and has received commissions from festivals in London and Wales. His Langará for clarinet was an imposed piece at the International Competition for Young Musicians in Lisbon in 1993 and Antagonia for cello was selected for performance by the ISCM World Music Days in Mexico City in 1993. In March 2001, he was guest composer at the Maastricht Festival (Holland), where several of his works were performed, including the Viola Concerto.
His chamber opera O Doido e a Morte, based on the farce by Raul Brandão, was premièred at the São Carlos Theatre in Lisbon in November 1994, under his direction, and was later staged at the Theater am Halleschen Ufer in Berlin in December 1996. He is now working on two chamber operas that will form, with the previous one, a Trilogy of Madness.
He has written several studies about Portuguese music, namely concerning Luís de Freitas Branco (about whom he gave conferences in Rome) and Carlos de Andrade (1884-1930) – his great-grandfather – a modernist composer whose work he revealed for the first time in January 2000. He wrote the book "A Sinfonia em Portugal", published in October 2001 by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture. A music critic in Portuguese newspapers since 1990, he has a program of musical analysis on Antena 2, the cultural channel of the RDP.
He is presently a free-lance performer, as well as a full-time composer.
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Title of work | Date | Commissioning body | URL | Town | Country | Notes | Invisible Column 0 | Invisible Column |
Tresvariações | 1998 | Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - Music Service | URL | Lisbon | Portugal | Notes | http://www.musica.gulbenkian.pt/ | |
Dueto para Cravo e Marimba | 1996 | Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - Music Service | URL | Lisbon | Portugal | Notes | http://www.musica.gulbenkian.pt/ | |
Quinteto com acordeão | 2019 | Castelo Branco Municipality | URL | Castelo Branco | Portugal | Notes | https://www.cm-castelobranco.pt | |
Quinteto da Raposa | 2018 | CriaSons Festival | URL | Lisbon | Portugal | Notes | http://musicamera.pt/projectos/2o-festival-criasons-abertura-de-concurso-para-compositores-emergentes/ | |
Os ingleses fumam cachimbo | 2021 | Lisbon Contemporary Music Group | URL | Lisbon | Portugal | Notes | http://www.gmcl.pt | |
Música para Rei Lear – A Partir da Tragédia de William Shakespeare | 2018 | Music Days in Belém | URL | Lisbon | Portugal | Notes | https://www.ccb.pt/Default/pt/Inicio | |
The Panic Flirt | 1992 | Presteigne International Festival | URL | Presteigne (Wales) | United Kingdom | Notes | http://www.presteignefestival.com/ | |
Cansonâncias | 2000 | São Carlos National Theatre | URL | Lisbon | Portugal | Notes | http://www.saocarlos.pt/ | |
Title of work | Name of Award | Prize | Date | Awarding body | URL | Town | Country | Notes | Invisible Column | Invisible Column 2 |
Medal of Merit | 2010 | Alcobaça Municipality | Alcobaça | Portugal | Notes | |||||
Evoluções na Paisagem | João de Freitas Branco Award | 1992 | Portugal | Notes | ||||||
Concerto para Flauta e Orquestra | Composition Contest | 1st Medal | 1988 | Lisbon National Conservatory | URL | Lisbon | Portugal | Notes | http://www.em-conservatorio-nacional.rcts.pt/ | |
Young Musicians Award | 1987 | Portuguese Public Radio | URL | Lisbon | Portugal | Notes | http://programas.rtp.pt/EPG/radio/epg-dia.php?canal=2 | |||
Work | Type | Date | Organization/Event | Local | Town | Country | Performer(s) | Notes | Invisible Column |
Quarteto para Percussão | Unperformed | Notes | |||||||
Concerto para Metais | Unperformed | Notes | |||||||
Tocarola | Premiere | 2022/Nov/05 | Contemporaneidades (MPMP Património Musical Vivo) | Convento dos Capuchos | Almada | Portugal | João Pedro Silva (saxophone) | Notes | |
Os ingleses fumam cachimbo | Premiere | 2021/Oct/31 | Cistermúsica | Cine-Teatro da Nazaré | Nazaré | Portugal | Lisbon Contemporary Music Group, Rui Pinheiro (direction) | Notes | |
Quinteto com acordeão | Premiere | 2020/Feb/23 | Contemporary Culture Centre | Castelo Branco | Portugal | Carisa Marcelino · accordion João Roiz Ensemble Vasken Fermanian · violin; João Mendes · violin; João Delgado · viola; Ricardo Mota · cello |
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Música para Rei Lear – A Partir da Tragédia de William Shakespeare | Premiere | 2019/Apr/27 | Music Days in Belém | CCB – Belém Arts Centre | Lisbon | Portugal | Sara Barros Leitão · staging; Paulo Calatré ·
Lear; Diana Sá · Goneril; Teresa Arcanjo · Regan; Sara Barros Leitão · Cordélia; Rodrigo Santos · Kent; Carlos Guilherme · Bobo / Tenor Toy Ensemble: Christina Margotto · piano; Jed Barahal · cello; Dário Ribeiro · horn; Pedro Teixeira · oboe; Tiago Bento · clarinet |
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Quinteto da Raposa | Premiere | 2019/Apr/06 | 2nd edition of the CriaSons Festival | Convento dos Capuchos | Caparica | Portugal | Katharine Rawdon · flute; Bethany Akers · oboe; Paulo Gaspar · clarinet; Jorge Trindade · clarinet & bass clarinet; Franz-Juergen Dorsam · bassoon; Alexei Eremin · piano | Notes | |
Trio com piano "Camoniano" | Premiere | 2018/Feb/27 | Casa da Música | Porto | Portugal | Trio Pangea Léo Belthoise . violin Teresa Valente Pereira . cello Bruno Belthoise piano |
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Quarteto Breve | Premiere | 2017/May/01 | Reencontros de Música Contemporânea | Salão Nobre do Teatro Aveirense | Aveiro | Portugal | Grupo De Percussão Da Esmae (Porto): Manuel Campos, supervisor Alexandre Silva Bruno Félix Daniel Araújo Diogo Mota Jonathan Silva José Sousa Jorge Pereira Ricardo Mateus Tomás Rosa |
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The Panic Flirt | Performance | 2013/Oct/06 | Culturgest 20th Anniversary | Culturgest | Lisbon | Portugal | Katharine Rawdon, flute | Notes | |
The Panic Flirt | Performance | 2013/Oct/05 | Culturgest 20th Anniversary | Culturgest | Lisbon | Portugal | Katharine Rawdon, flute | Notes | |
A Rainha Louca | Performance | 2012/May/11 | Matosinhos | Portugal | ORCHESTRUTOPICA, Alexandre Delgado (conductor) | Joaquim Benite (staging) | Ana Ester Neves, Maria Luísa de Freitas, Ana Paula Russo, Teresa Cardoso de Menezes, Nilma Santos | Notes | |||
A Rainha Louca | Performance | 2012/May/08 | Braga | Portugal | ORCHESTRUTOPICA, Alexandre Delgado (conductor) | Joaquim Benite (staging) | Ana Ester Neves, Maria Luísa de Freitas, Ana Paula Russo, Teresa Cardoso de Menezes, Nilma Santos | Notes | |||
A Rainha Louca | Performance | 2012/May/05 | Aveiro | Portugal | ORCHESTRUTOPICA, Alexandre Delgado (conductor) | Joaquim Benite (staging) | Ana Ester Neves, Maria Luísa de Freitas, Ana Paula Russo, Teresa Cardoso de Menezes, Nilma Santos | Notes | |||
A Rainha Louca | Performance | 2012/May/02 | teatro de Almada | Almada | Portugal | ORCHESTRUTOPICA, Alexandre Delgado (conductor) | Joaquim Benite (staging) | Ana Ester Neves, Maria Luísa de Freitas, Ana Paula Russo, Teresa Cardoso de Menezes, Nilma Santos | Notes | ||
A Rainha Louca | Performance | 2012/Apr/29 | Teatro de Almada | Almada | Portugal | ORCHESTRUTOPICA, Alexandre Delgado (conductor) | Joaquim Benite (staging) | Ana Ester Neves, Maria Luísa de Freitas, Ana Paula Russo, Teresa Cardoso de Menezes, Nilma Santos | Notes | ||
A Rainha Louca | Performance | 2012/Apr/27 | Teatro de Almada | Almada | Portugal | ORCHESTRUTOPICA, Alexandre Delgado (conductor) | Joaquim Benite (staging) | Ana Ester Neves, Maria Luísa de Freitas, Ana Paula Russo, Teresa Cardoso de Menezes, Nilma Santos | Notes | ||
A Rainha Louca | Performance | 2011/Jul/12 | CCB/Almada Festival | Belem Arts Centre - Main Room | Lisbon | Portugal | OrchestrUtopica, Alexandre Delgado (conductor), Ana Ester Neves (voice), Maria Luísa de Freitas (voice), Ana Paula Russo (voice), Teresa Cardoso Meneses (voice), Nilma Santos (voice) | Notes | |
A Rainha Louca | Performance | 2011/Jul/10 | CCB/Almada Festival | Belem Arts Centre - Main Room | Lisbon | Portugal | OrchestrUtopica, Alexandre Delgado (conductor), Ana Ester Neves (voice), Maria Luísa de Freitas (voice), Ana Paula Russo (voice), Teresa Cardoso Meneses (voice), Nilma Santos (voice) | Notes | |
A Rainha Louca | Premiere | 2011/Jul/08 | CCB/Almada Festival | Belem Arts Centre - Main Room | Lisbon | Portugal | OrchestrUtopica, Alexandre Delgado (conductor), Ana Ester Neves (voice), Maria Luísa de Freitas (voice), Ana Paula Russo (voice), Teresa Cardoso Meneses (voice), Nilma Santos (voice) | Notes | |
Quarteto de Cordas | Performance | 2011/Apr/21 | Constantino Nery Theatre | Matosinhos | Portugal | Matosinhos String Quartet | Notes | ||
Prelúdio | Performance | 2010/Dec/17 | Christmas Concerts | Alcoentre Firefighters headquarter | Alcoentre | Portugal | Metropolitana Academic Orchestra, Jean-Marc Burfin (conductor) | Notes | |
Prelúdio | Performance | 2010/Dec/12 | Christmas Concerts | Mafra Convent | Mafra | Portugal | ´Metropolitana Academic Orchestra, Jean-Marc Burfin (conductor) | Notes | |
Prelúdio | Performance | 2010/Dec/11 | Christmas Concerts | Cultural and Congress Centre - Main Room | Caldas da Rainha | Portugal | Metropolitana Academic Orchestra, Jean-Marc Burfin (conductor) | Notes | |
Santa Asinha | Premiere | 2010/Jun/19 | Cistermusica Festival | Alcobaça Cine-Theatre | Alcobaça | Portugal | Algarve's Orchestra, Alexandre Delgado (conductor), Luís Rodrigues (baritone) | Notes | |
Pequena Suite Laurissilva | Performance | 2010/Jun/02 | 28th Festival Music in Leiria - 2010 | José Lúcio da Silva Theatre | Leiria | Portugal | Orquestra Gulbenkian, Pedro Neves (conductor) | Notes | |
A Rainha Louca (1º Acto) | Performance | 2010/Jun/02 | 28th Festival Music in Leiria - 2010 | José Lúcio da Silva Theatre | Leiria | Portugal | Gulbenkian orchestra, Pedro Neves (conductor) | Notes | parcial performance: opera ouverture |
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sem título | Premiere | 2010/Apr/14 | 25th 2010 - Miso Music Portugal "25 years" - A Week in April | Institut Franco-Portugais | Lisbon | Portugal | Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble, Pedro Neves (conductor) | Notes | |
Langará | Performance | 2009/Nov/17 | música contemporânea III música açores | Velas Auditorium | Velas | Portugal | Gorka Hermosa (accordeon), Josep Sancho (clarinet) | Notes | |
Langará | Performance | 2009/Nov/16 | Música Contemporânea III música açores | Lajes do Pico Auditorium | Lajes do Pico | Portugal | Gorka Hermosa (accordion), Josep Sancho (clarinet) | Notes | |
Prelúdio | Performance | 2009/Oct/03 | CML/EGEAC - Música nas Praças | Largo São Carlos | Lisbon | Portugal | Sinfonietta de Lisboa, Vasco Pearce de Azevedo (conductor) | Notes | |
O Doido e a Morte | Performance | 2009/May | Teatro Municipal de Almada | Almada | Portugal | Companhia de Teatro de Almada, Maria Camponês (flute), Ricardo Henriques (clarinet), Ana Rita (clarinet), Ricardo Santos (bassoon), Patrícia Vintém (harpsichord), Daniel Bolito (violin), Joana Cipriano (viola), Hugo Fernandes (violoncello), Romeu Santos (doublebass) | Notes | May 15th until 31st | |
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Pequena Suite Laurissilva | Performance | 2009/Mar/29 | Culturgest - Main Auditorium | Lisbon | Portugal | Remix Quartet: Angel Gimeno (violin), José Pereira (violin), Trevor McTait (viola), Oliver Parr (violoncello) | Notes | ||
Prelúdio | Performance | 2008/Dec/13 | São Nicolau Church | Lisbon | Portugal | Lisbon Sinfonietta Vasco Pearce de Azevedo (conductor) | Notes | ||
Pequena Suite Laurissilva | Performance | 2008/Jul/29 | Póvoa de Varzim Municipality / XXX Póvoa de Varzim International Music Festival | City Concert Hall | Póvoa de Varzim | Portugal | Artzen Quartet: Ana Pereira and Ana Filipa Serrão (violins), Joana Cipriano (viola), Carolina Matos (cello) | Notes | |
A Rainha Louca (1º Acto) | Performance | 2008/Jul/12 | Belém Art Centre / Música Portuguesa Hoje | Belém Art Centre - Great Concert Hall | Lisbon | Portugal | Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra Pablo Heras Casado (conductor) | Notes | Opera overture |
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Langará | Performance | 2008/Jul/10 | José Rodrigues Foundation | Porto | Portugal | Nuno Pinto (clarinet) | Notes | ||
Langará | Performance | 2008/Jun/20 | Manuel Correia Botelho Foundation | Vila Real | Portugal | Nuno Pinto (clarinet) | Notes | ||
Suite d' "O Doido e a Morte" | Performance | 2008/May/18 | Belém Art Centre / OrchestrUtopica - In Extremis | Belém Art Centre / Luís Freitas Branco Room | Lisbon | Portugal | OrchestrUtopica: Katharine Rawdon (flute), Elizabeth Davies (marimba) | Notes | |
A Rainha Louca (1º Acto) | Performance | 2008/Apr/01 | Rudolfinum | Prague | Czech Republic | Hradec Králové Philharmony Orchestra Andreas Sebastian Weiser (conductor) | Notes | Overture | |
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Antagonia | Performance | 2007/Nov/15 | Festival XX/XXI MusicaAçores | São Roque School Concert Hall | Pico | Portugal | Oficina Musical: Jed Barahal (cello) | Notes | |
Concerto para Viola e Orquestra | Performance | 2007/Sep/15 | Miso Music Portugal - Música Viva 2007 Festival | Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - Great Hall | Lisbon | Portugal | Gulbenkian Orchestra Jano Lisboa (viola) Renato Rivolta (conductor) | Notes | |
Quarteto de Cordas | Performance | 2007/Jul/08 | Time of Music - In Extremis | Parish Hall | Viitasaari | Finland | UTA Quartet | Notes | |
A Rainha Louca (1º Acto) | Partial premiere | 2004/Nov/13 | 4 Postcards to Haydn and Mozart from 4 Portuguese Composers | New Lisbon University Rectory - Auditorium | Lisbon | Portugal | Portuguese Symphony Orchestra Donato Renzetti (conductor) | Notes | Premiére of the Opera's Ouverture |
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Langará | Performance | 2004/May/05 | 2nd Music Festival - Lisbon Superior School of Music | São Luiz Municipal Theatre (Winter Garden) | Lisbon | Portugal | Miguel Fialho (clarinet) | Notes | |
Pequena Suite Laurissilva | Performance | 2003/Dec/16 | Lisbon Geographic Society | Lisbon | Portugal | Lisbon Sinfonietta Vasco Pearce de Azevedo (conductor) | Notes | ||
Cansonâncias | Premiere | 2000/Nov/23 | Music in November | São Carlos National Theatre | Lisbon | Portugal | São Carlos National Theatre Choir João Paulo Santos (conductor) | Notes | |
The Panic Flirt | Performance | 2000/Nov/22 | Music in November | Luís de Camões Theatre | Lisbon | Portugal | Kathryn Thomas (flute) | Notes | |
Suite "A Varanda do Frangipani" | Premiere | 1999/Dec/10 | Meridional Theatre | Balleteatro Auditorium | Oporto | Portugal | Irene Lima (cello) | Notes | Co-Production: Meridional Theatre / São João National Theatre for PoNTI 99 Miguel Seabra and Alvaro Lavín (stage direction) |
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Concerto para Flauta e Orquestra | Performance | 1998/Nov/24 | Music in November | Culturgest | Lisbon | Portugal | Portuguesa Symphonic Orchestra Katharine Rawdon (flute) Heinz Karl Gruber (conductor) | Notes | |
Dueto para Cravo e Marimba | Premiere | 1997/May/08 | 21st Gulbenkian Encounters of Contemporary Music | Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - Great Hall | Lisbon | Portugal | Ensemble l'Itinéraire Pascal Rophé (conductor) | Notes | |
The Panic Flirt | Premiere | 1992/Sep | Presteigne International Festival | Presteigne (Wales) | United Kingdom | Ashildur Haraldsdottir (flute) | Notes | ||
Quarteto de Cordas | Performance | 1992/May/15 | 16th Gulbenkian Encounters of Contemporary Music | Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation | Lisbon | Portugal | Oficina Musical Álvaro Salazar (conductor) | Notes | |
Turbilhão | Performance | 1990/May/12 | 14th Gulbenkian Encounters of Contemporary Music | Estufa Fria | Lisbon | Portugal | Jorge Vaz de Carvalho (bass) Capela Quartet: António Anjos (1st violin), Victorino Gomes (2nd violin), Barbara Friedhoff (viola), João Murcho (cello) | Notes | |
Concerto para Flauta e Orquestra | Performance | 1989/May/11 | 13th Gulbenkian Encounters of Contemporary Music | Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - Great Hall | Lisbon | Portugal | Philippe Malfait (flute) Gulbenkian Orchestra Michel Tabachnik (conductor) | Notes | Portuguese Première |
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Concerto para Flauta e Orquestra | Premiere | 1989/Feb/04 | Nice | France | Carlos Franco (flute) Nice Philharmonic Orchestra Jacques Charpentier (conductor) | Notes | |||
Duo para Violeta e Clarinete | Premiere | 1988/May/06 | 12th Gulbenkian Encounters of Contemporary Music | Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - Great Hall | Lisbon | Portugal | Lisbon Contemporary Music Group: António Oliveira e Silva (viola), António Saiote (clarinet) Jorge Peixinho (conductor) | Notes | |
Turbilhão | Premiere | 1988/Jan | Antena 2 - RDP | Lisbon | Portugal | Álvaro Malta (bass) Portugália Quartet | Notes | ||
Três Momentos para Orquestra | Premiere | ~ 1983 | Lisbon | Portugal | São Carlos National Theatre Symphony Orchestra | Notes | |||
Prelúdio | Premiere | ~ 1982 | Lisbon | Portugal | RDP Symphony Orchestra | Notes | |||
Description of Activity | Designation | Period | Organization | URL | Venue | Town | Country | Notes | Invisible Column | |
Affiliation with Institutions | President of the General Assembly of the Portuguese Musicians' Union | Portuguese Musicians' Union | URL | Lisbon | Portugal | Notes | http://www.musicaemusicos.org/ | |||
Lectures | Caminos de la música ibérica en la primera mitad del siglo XX: La obra de Luís de Freitas Branco | - 2008 | Pórtico do Paraíso - Ist Ourense International Music Festival | URL | Ourense Atheneum | Ourense | Spain | Notes | http://www.porticodoparaiso.com/ | |
Lectures | Luís de Freitas Branco - Beyond Modernism | - 2005/Oct/11 | Luís de Freitas Branco Festival | Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - Small Hall | Lisbon | Portugal | Notes | |||
Media | Music Critic | Diário de Lisboa | Lisbon | Portugal | Notes | |||||
Media | "About Music" - Author | 1996 | Portuguese Public Radio - Antena 2 | URL | Lisbon | Portugal | Notes | http://programas.rtp.pt/EPG/radio/ | ||
Media | Music Critic | 1991 - 2001 | Público | URL | Lisbon | Portugal | Notes | http://www.publico.pt | ||
Media | Assistant and Director | 1989 - 1991 | Portuguese Public Radio - Antena 2 | URL | Lisbon | Portugal | Notes | http://programas.rtp.pt/EPG/radio/ | ||
Other | Alcobaça Music Festival - Art Director | Alcobaça | Portugal | Notes | ||||||
Performing | Gulbenkian Orchestra Member | Gulbenkian Orchestra | URL | Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation | Lisbon | Portugal | Notes | http://www.gulbenkian.pt | ||
Performing | Lacerda Quartet Member | Lacerda Quartet | Lisbon | Portugal | Notes | |||||