Composers

PhD candidate in Art Studies at Universidade de Coimbra researching Classical Music and Heavy Metal.
Researcher at CEIS20 - Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Coimbra University.
Major in Composition at Escola Superior de Música, Artes e Espectáculo, (ESMAE) Porto, where he worked with Luís Tinoco, Carlos Guedes, Eugénio Amorim, Filipe Vieira, Nuno Côrte-Real and Dimitris Andrikopoulos.
Master in Music Education, field of Music Composition, by Universidade de Aveiro - Departamento de Comunicação e Arte, under guidance by Sara Carvalho: O Ensino Aprendizagem da Análise Musical Através de Estratégias de Questionamento.
Teacher at Escola Artística do Conservatório de Música de Coimbra since 2012 having worked in several music schools and conservatories since 2006.
Composer published by AVA Musical Editions, MIC.PT (Portuguese Music Research & Information Centre), MPMP (Movimento Patrimonial Pela Música Portuguesa) and Libellus Usualis.
Colaboration with Agência Nacional para a Qualificação e o Ensino Profissional, I.P. (ANQEP, I.P.) in the project Aprendizagens Essenciais as specialist developing the curriculum for Music Theory and Analysis subject.
Responsible for ENCAPE - Encontro Nacional de Composição e Análise Musical: Perspectivas Educacionais (2016, 2019, 2023) in partnership with composer Sara Carvalho and Interferência.
Resident Composer in FICA'18 (International Choir Festival - Aveiro 2'18) and Festival ZêzereArts 2018.
Highliths among his music compositions are works for choir, chamber music, orquestra, colaborations in theater, art instalations and arrangements for varied instrument formations.
Frequent colaborator with Coro Anonymus, which dedicates exclusively to the performance of living portuguese contemporary composers.
Certified teacher trainer by Conselho Científico-Pedagógico da Formação Contínua, Universidade do Minho, develops multiple online courses for music teachers.
Member of Bolsa de Especialistas for DGArtes for Music, Creation and Education.
Colaborated with Serviço Educativo at Casa da Música from 2005 to 2006 and was a member of project Digitópia between 2007 and 2010.
Participated in masterclasses, workshops and other courses with Clarence Barlow, Magnus Lindberg, Jonathan Harvey, Bruce Pennycook, Tim Steiner, Sam Mason, Paul Griffiths, Klaus Trumpf, Fernando Flores and Olga Prats.

EXTERNAL LINKS
David Miguel's official website
David Miguel on YouTube
David Miguel on SoundCloud

Title of work	Date	Commissioning body	URL	Town	Country	Notes	Invisible Column 0	Invisible Column
Soneto do amor e da morte	2013	Anonymus Choir			Portugal	Notes
O Desassossego	2012	Anonymus Choir			Portugal	Notes
O Silêncio	2012	Anonymus Choir			Portugal	Notes
Alma Penada (hommage a Liszt)	2023	Interpreter order, Ana Ferraz (flute)				Notes
Deligere	2023	Laboratório de Mini-Óperas da Companhia Inestética	URL	Sobralinho	Portugal	Notes	https://inestetica.com/2024/mini-operas-de-laboratorio/
Gravitas	2023	MisoMusic Portugal	URL	Lisbon	Portugal	Notes	https://www.misomusic.me/
Ex Nihilo: Canor	2016	MPMP Ensemble	URL	Lisbon	Portugal	Notes	http://mpmp.pt/ensemble-mpmp/
The Broken Note	2011	Young Musicians' Award	URL	Lisbon	Portugal	Notes	https://www.rtp.pt/antena2/premio-jovens-musicos
Sorrow came and wept	2017	ZêzereArts 2018 Festival	URL		Portugal	Notes	http://www.zezerearts.com/festival

Title of work	Name of Award	Prize	Date	Awarding body	URL	Town	Country	Notes	Invisible Column	Invisible Column 2
	Honorable mention in the 2010 ISB/David Walter Composition Competition (Chamber Division)	Honorable mention for the work Scordabasso	2010		URL		United States of America	Notes	https://www.isbworldoffice.com/composition.asp

Work	Type	Date	Organization/Event	Local	Town	Country	Performer(s)	Notes	Invisible Column
The Broken Note	Premiere	2102/Jul/12	IV Campus Musical de la Federación Galega de Bandas de Música		Santiago de Compostela	Spain	Sérgio Pacheco . trumpet	Notes
Deligere	Performance	2024/Feb/04	Laboratório de Criação de Ópera Contemporânea	Espaço QC	Porto	Portugal	Rui Baeta (baritone) Patrícia Modesto (soprano) Adriana Almeida (flute) Philippe Trovão (saxophone) Magda Pinto (viola) Joana Correia (cello) Carlos Marecos and Alexandre Lyra Leite (artistic direction)	Notes
Deligere	Performance	2024/Jan/28	Laboratório de Criação de Ópera Contemporânea	Palácio do Sobralinho	Vila Franca de Xira	Portugal	Rui Baeta (baritone) Patrícia Modesto (soprano) Adriana Almeida (flute) Philippe Trovão (saxophone) Magda Pinto (viola) Joana Correia (cello) Carlos Marecos and Alexandre Lyra Leite (artistic direction)	Notes
Deligere	Premiere	2024/Jan/27	Laboratório de Criação de Ópera Contemporânea	Palácio do Sobralinho	Vila Franca de Xira	Portugal	Rui Baeta (baritone) Patrícia Modesto (soprano) Adriana Almeida (flute) Philippe Trovão (saxophone) Magda Pinto (viola) Joana Correia (cello) Carlos Marecos and Alexandre Lyra Leite (artistic direction)	Notes
Gravitas	Premiere	2023/Dec/13		O’culto da Ajuda	Lisbon	Portugal	Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble Pedro Carneiro (conductor)	Notes
Alma Penada (hommage a Liszt)	Premiere	2023/Aug/03	Porto PianoFest	Rectory of the University of Porto	Porto	Portugal	Ana Ferraz (flute) Selim Mazari (piano)	Notes
O Lado Oculto da Lua	Premiere	2021/Sep/29	Sonos Humanae Vitae	Teatro Académico Gil Vicente	Coimbra	Portugal	University-of-Coimbra Academic Orchestra; André Granjo & Jan Wierzba (direction)	Notes
Sorrow came and wept	Premiere	2018/Jul/21	ZêzereArts 2018 Festival	Convento de Cristo	Tomar	Portugal	ZêzereArts Choir and Orchestra Brian MacKay . direction	Notes
Ex Nihilo: Canor	Premiere	2017/Jul/19		Vianna da Motta Auditorium . Music College of Lisbon	Lisbon	Portugal	Ensemble MPMP Jan Wierzba . direction	Notes
Soneto do amor e da morte	Premiere	2014/Jul/06		Manuel António da Mota Foundation	Porto	Portugal	Anonymus Choir	Notes
O Silêncio	Premiere	2014/Jun/14		Large Auditorium of the Conservatoire of Music in Coimbra	Coimbra	Portugal	String Orchestra and Complementary Choir of the Conservatoire of Music in Coimbra Leandro Alves . conductor Inês Alexandra . conductress	Notes
O Desassossego	Premiere	2013/Dec/07		Auditorium of the EDP Foundation	Porto	Portugal	Anonymus Choir Rui Paulo Teixeira . direction	Notes
O Silêncio	Premiere	2013/Jul/20		Municipal Library	Porto	Portugal	Anonymus Choir Rui Paulo Teixeira . conductor	Notes
Salus, Honor et Virtus	Premiere	2012/Mar/31		Igreja de Cedofeita	Porto	Portugal	Anonymus Choir Rui Paulo Teixeira . conductor	Notes
Amnis	Premiere	2010/Feb/20	8th Workshop by the Gulbenkian Orchestra for Young Composers	Culturgest	Lisbon	Portugal	Gulbenkian Orchestra Joana Carneiro . conductress	Notes
Scordabasso	Premiere	2009/Jul/20		School of Music and Performing Arts	Porto	Portugal	João Fernandes, Cláudia Carneiro, Denis Ferreira, Jorge Castro (double basses)	Notes
Elegia	Premiere	2007/Apr/16	Peças Frescas	Winter Garden at the São Luiz Municipal Theatre	Lisbon	Portugal	Luís Azevedo . cello Carlos Filipe Cruz . piano	Notes

Description of Activity	Designation	Period	Organization	URL	Venue	Town	Country	Notes	Invisible Column
Lectures	Post-ip: 3rd International Post-Graduation Forum of Music and Dance Studies	2015/Dec/10	O Instituto de Etnomusicologia – Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança (INET-md)	URL	University of Aveiro	Aveiro	Portugal	Notes	http://www.inetmd.pt	Subjest of David Miguel's communication:The Teaching-Learning of Musical Analysis through Strategies of Questioning
Subjest of David Miguel's communication:The Teaching-Learning of Musical Analysis through Strategies of Questioning
Lectures	ENCAPE2016	2016/Jul/11	Conservatoire of Music in Coimbra & INET-md (David Miguel & Sara Carvalho)	URL	Conservatoire of Music in Coimbra	Coimbra	Portugal	Notes	https://www.conservatoriomcoimbra.pt/	Subject of David Miguel's presentation: Questioner's Languages: a journey through the facinating universe of questions (and some answers)
Subject of David Miguel's presentation: Questioner's Languages: a journey through the facinating universe of questions (and some answers)
Lectures	32nd World Conference of the International Society for Music Education (ISME2016)	2016/Jul/29	International Society for Music Education	URL		Glasgow	United Kingdom	Notes	https://www.isme.org	Subject of David Miguel's presentation: Teaching and Learning Music Analysis through Questioning Strategies
Subject of David Miguel's presentation: Teaching and Learning Music Analysis through Questioning Strategies
Lectures	1st Congress for Artistic Specialized Teaching - Theory and Practice	2017/Feb/04	Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation	URL	Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation	Lisbon	Portugal	Notes	https://gulbenkian.pt/	Subject of David Miguel's presentation: Musical Analysis in music teaching: demystifying the discipline through questioning
Subject of David Miguel's presentation: Musical Analysis in music teaching: demystifying the discipline through questioning
Lectures	Qualifica 2010 - Education, Training, Youth and Work Fair	2010/Apr/17			Exponor	Matosinhos	Portugal	Notes		Subject of David Miguel's presentation: From the Stimulus to the Artistic Service - the steps of a musician
Subject of David Miguel's presentation: From the Stimulus to the Artistic Service - the steps of a musician
Lectures	6th International Society for Metal Music Studies Biennial Meeting	2023/Jun/08			Concordia University	Montreal	Canada	Notes		Subject of David Miguel's presentation: Music therapy genre dichotomy on classical music and heavy metal: a methodology conundrum
Subject of David Miguel's presentation: Music therapy genre dichotomy on classical music and heavy metal: a methodology conundrum
Lectures	4 th Conference on Pedagogy in Specialized Artistic Teaching of Music in the 21 st Century	2015/Oct/24	Art School - Catholic University of Portugal	URL	Art School - Catholic University of Portugal	Porto	Portugal	Notes	http://artes.porto.ucp.pt/	Subject of David Miguel's and Maria Antónia Costa Reis' presentation: The Questioning as Study Object in Music Teaching
Subject of David Miguel's and Maria Antónia Costa Reis' presentation: The Questioning as Study Object in Music Teaching
Lectures	ATC Meetings of the Interferência Association - Music, Composition and Teaching	2017/Apr/22	Fundação José Rodrigues	URL	José Rodrigues Foundation	Porto	Portugal	Notes	http://portovore.com/fundacao-jose-rodrigues/	Subject of David Miguel's presentation: Musical Analysis and Composition: valorizing the reflexive thought
Subject of David Miguel's presentation: Musical Analysis and Composition: valorizing the reflexive thought

	Type (+ sub-type)	Cover/edition title Document title	Authors	Referring to	Publisher	Date
	Photos / Images Photograph	David Miguel		David Miguel
	Photos / Images Photograph	David Miguel		David Miguel
	Scores	David Miguel · Amnis  Amnis		amnis David Miguel	Centro de Investigação & Informação da Música Portuguesa	2018 2018
	Scores	David Miguel · Elegia  Elegia		elegia David Miguel	Centro de Investigação & Informação da Música Portuguesa	2018 2018
	Scores	David Miguel · Múltiplos  Múltiplos		multiplos David Miguel	Centro de Investigação & Informação da Música Portuguesa	2018 2018
	Scores	David Miguel · Quarteto 5.1  Quarteto 5.1		quarteto 5.1 David Miguel	Centro de Investigação & Informação da Música Portuguesa	2018 2018
	Scores	David Miguel . Scordabasso  Scordabasso		scordabasso David Miguel	Centro de Investigação & Informação da Música Portuguesa	2018 2018
	Scores	David Miguel . Sorrow came and wept  Sorrow came and wept		sorrow came and wept David Miguel	Centro de Investigação & Informação da Música Portuguesa	2018 2018
	Texts Article	Proceedings of the International Society for Music Education 32nd World Conference on Music Education David Miguel & Sara Carvalho . Teaching and learning music analysis through questioning strategies  Teaching and learning music analysis through questioning strategies		David Miguel Sara Carvalho	International Society for Music Education (ISME)	2016 2016
	Texts Interview	Entrevista com David Miguel no Portal XpressingMusic (Dezembro de 2016)  Entrevista com David Miguel no Portal XpressingMusic (Dezembro de 2016)		David Miguel	XpressingMusic - portal do conhecimento musical	2016 2016