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 Sara Carvalho is a composer, a senior lecturer at the University of Aveiro's Department of Communication and Arts, Portugal, and a fellow researcher of the Institute of Ethnomusicology - Center for Studies in Music and Dance (INET-MD).

As a composer, she is interested in researching creative processes associated with gesture, musical narrative, audience as performers and performer-composer collaboration.

Her portfolio has over 90 pieces regularly performed both in Portugal and internationally. These include commissions by prestigious international institutions, ensembles, and soloists of merit, such as Antonietta Loffredo, Black Hair, Borealis Ensemble, Borislava Taneva, Capricorn Ensemble, Composers Ensemble, Duque Quartet, Ensemble DME, Ensemble Lontano, Ensemble Móbile, Ensemble Neue Musik Bratislava, Ensemble Vertixe Sonora, Erato Alakiozidou, FLUTUA, Guenadie Rotari, Henrique Portovedo, João Roiz Ensemble, Késia Decoté, Mieko Kanno, Medea String Quartet, Northen Symphonia, Orquestra Filarmónica Portuguesa, Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa, OrquestrUtopica, Peter Kolkay, Performa, Ensemble, Remix Ensemble, Síntese, Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble, Stacey Barelos, University of York Chamber Orchestra, Verge Ensemble e Young Ha.

Several of her pieces are available on CD, with Numérica editing her monographic CD "7 pomegranate seeds". Her scores are published by the Portuguese Music Information & Investigation Centre (MIC.PT), Babel Scores, and Wirripang Pty. Ltd, Australia. She is frequently invited to participate in international composition juries, including the "International Competition: Arioso Musica Domani: International Competition Prize", the "9th and 13th International Composition Competition of Póvoa de Varzim", the "Prémio de Composição SPA/Antena 2", and "MPMP Musa prize”.

She has actively participated in the academic community, both as an organizer and panel member of numerous scientific committees for conferences and journals. Among others, the "Performa - Conference on Performance Studies" (2011 and 2015), the "Orff-Schulwerk Meeting of the University of Aveiro" (2016, 2017, and 2019), the "National Meeting of Composition and Musical Analysis: Educational Perspectives" (2016, 2019, and 2023), the "1st and 2nd International Conference Music for and by Children: Perspectives from Children, Composers, Performers and Educators" (musichildren'17 / musichildren'22), and the Symposium ACTUS: "Audience as Performers" (2024), an event linked to her funded project "ACTUS: Audience as Performers”.

Her research is presented at national and international conferences and published in various journals, books and book chapters, including those published by ASHGATE/SEMPRE Studies in The Psychology of Music Series and London: Imperial College Press.

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Last update: November 24th, 2024