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Daniel Davis was born in Porto in 1990. He studied Composition at Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (Music College of Lisbon) with the composers: Professor Dr Sérgio Azevedo, Professor Dr António Pinho Vargas and Professor Dr Luís Tinoco. He also had the opportunity to work with the composers: Professor Roberto Alejandro Perez, Professor Dr Carlos Marecos, Professor Dr João Madureira, Professor Dr José Luís Ferreira and Professor Dr Carlos Caires (Orchestration, Harmony, Analysis and Electroacoustic Music). In 2014 Daniel Davis was scholarship holder of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation for the 2014-15 academic year, and he was the Young Composer of the 2014-15 Concert Season of the Orquestra de Câmara de Cascais e Oeiras (Chamber Orchestra of Cascais and Oeiras). He was also Associated Composer in the context of the Musicalmente - Music for Babies project (2016 season). Recently, Daniel Davis has been offered a conditional place for a Doctoral Programme at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, in London - with the support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Guildhall Research Department - with the composers: Professor Dr Julian Philips and Professor Dr Richard Baker. He has also been working with the composer: Professor Dr Julian Anderson. EXTERNAL LINKS Daniel Davis' official website |
Title of work | Date | Commissioning body | URL | Town | Country | Notes | Invisible Column 0 | Invisible Column |
...behind the light | 2016 | Cascais & Oeiras Chamber Orchestra (OCCO) | URL | Portugal | Notes | https://www.occo.pt/homepage/ | ||
Trekking End | 2022 | Contemporaneus, association for the promotion of contemporary art | URL | Lagos | Portugal | Notes | http://www.contemporaneus.pt | |
Landscape of a winter morning | 2023 | Madeira Classical Orchestra | URL | Funchal | Portugal | Notes | https://www.ocmadeira.pt/ | |
Between a Man and a Butterfly | 2020 | Musicamera Produções – Festival CriaSons III | URL | Lisbon | Portugal | Notes | http://musicamera.pt | |
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Other side... | Accordion Composition Prize (Folefest) | 1st Award | 2019 | Folefest | URL | Lisbon | Portugal | Notes | http://www.folefest.com/2019/premio-de-composicao-acordeao-2019-resultados | |
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The Cloud | Premiere | 2024/Oct/17 | Clock Tower at King's Cross St Pancras | London | United Kingdom | Jonathan Eyers (baritone) Sonnen Quartet |
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Landscape of a winter morning | Premiere | 2023/Jun/03 | Madeira's Congress Center | Funchal | Portugal | Orquestra Clássica da Madeira Pedro Amaral (conductor) |
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Trekking End | Premiere | 2022/Jul/22 | Igreja das Freiras | Lagos | Portugal | Desassossego Ensemble: Francisco Serôdio (trombone) and Vera Batista (piano); Rita Rodrigues (theatre), Francisco Pavão (video), Timo Dillner (poetry and painting) | Notes | This performance was repeated at the same venue on the following days: July 23 and 24. | |
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Do they know | Premiere | 2022/Jul/15 | ENOA – Composing for Voices · Final Concert | Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation | Lisbon | Portugal | Gulbenkian Orchestra, Pedro Amaral (conductor), Tiago Matos (baritone) | Notes | |
Four Images | Premiere | 2022/Mar/03 | Barbican Centre | London | United Kingdom | Filipe Abreu (violino) and Kerry Waller (piano) | Notes | ||
Stone Skipping | Premiere | 2020/Nov/18 | London | United Kingdom | London Philharmonic Orchestra Sir James MacMillan · musical direction |
Notes | On-line concert: >> link | ||
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Between a Man and a Butterfly | Premiere | 2020/Nov/12 | CriaSons III Festival | São Carlos National Theatre | Lisbon | Portugal | Taíssa Poliakova · piano; Luís Pacheco Cunha · violin; Maria José Laginha · violin; Isabel Pimentel · viola | Notes | |
Other side... | Premiere | 2020/Oct/31 | Folefest | Auditório Carlos Paredes | Lisbon | Portugal | Pedro Santos · acordeão | Notes | |
Remembering the Future | Premiere | 2019/May/23 | Voiceworks · Guildhall School of Music & Drama | Wigmore Hall | London | United Kingdom | Sophie Sparrow · soprano; Edward Holmes · clarinet and bass clarinet; Michiel Wittink · viola; João Lucas · double bass | Notes | |
analogous... | Premiere | 2018/May/02 | Cine-Teatro Avenida | Castelo Branco | Portugal | Horácio Ferreira . clarinet | Notes | ||
Peregrinação | Premiere | 2017 | Lisbon | Portugal | Regina Coeli Choir Pedro Miguel . direction |
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Melody para Violino e Piano | Premiere | 2017 | São Vicente - Madeira | Portugal | Filipe Abreu . violin Tianhong Yang . piano |
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...from the last breath | Premiere | 2014/Sep/26 | Young Musicians' Award 2014 | Grande Auditório - Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation | Lisbon | Portugal | Gulbenkian Orchestra Pedro Carneiro . conductor |
Notes | Winning work at the SPA/Antena2 Composition Award |
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