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Details as performer
 Born in Porto in 1971, Pedro Junqueira Maia began his musical studies in harmony and jazz piano with Manuel Beleza. He continued them with George Letellier, from whom he received his first lessons in composition and orchestration. Then he studied at the Superior School of Music and Performing Arts in Porto, where he worked with Cândido Lima, Álvaro Salazar and Filipe Pires, having concluded his degree in Composition in Lisbon.

With a musical oeuvre that includes chamber, solo, electronic, mixed and theatre music, his works aim at the integration between improvised and strictly written elements. Through modal roots, he repeatedly relies on dense sounds, on rough textures and on perpetual motion, as well as on the intention of a gesture with the meaning and content as significant as its surroundings. His works have been presented throughout Portugal and abroad.

Simultaneously to his activity ascomposer, he has founded the Atelier de Composição (Composition Atelier), an association with which he has edited several publications (books, scores and audio recordings), as well as organized concerts, conferences, exhibitions and various gatherings with and about contemporary Portuguese composers.

Currently Pedro Junqueira Maia is a lecturer of Musical Analysis at the Music Department of the University of Minho.

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Atelier de Composição
Atelier de Composição