Born in the city of Porto, Portugal, in April 1995, Miguel Resende Bastos started studying music at four years of age. He received Basic education in Piano and studied Flute for eight years. When he was 16, he started learning Analysis and Composition Techniques from with the Portuguese composer
Daniel Moreira. It was in these classes that Miguel decided that he wanted to become a composer. Three years later, he started his Bachelor studies in Composition at ESMAE|IPP (Superior School for Music and Performing Arts, in Porto) where he studied Composition with Dimitris Andrikopoulos. Here he also studied orchestration, conducting and electronic music with composers such as
Daniel Moreira,
Carlos Guedes,
Carlos Azevedo,
Rui Penha and Eugénio Amorim. He also had private lessons in conducting with conductor Artur Pinho Maria. During this period, he had the opportunity to meet and attend seminars, workshops and conferences, with composers such as
Cândido Lima, Luca Francesconi, Unsuk Chin, Helmut Lachenmann, Nicolas Bacri, and Vic Hoyland.
As part of the ERASMUS+ program, Miguel studied for a year at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno, Czech Republic, where he studied Composition with Ivo Medek. There he also studied Interactive Electronic Music with Jan Kavan, and Choral and Orchestral Conducting with Gabriel Rovňák. During this period, he met and had seminars with composers such as Frederic Rzewski, Martijn Padding, Kees Tazelaar, and Krzysztof Knittel.
He took part in the 2016-17 edition of the Tenso Young Composers Workshop, led by the composers James Wood and Leo Samama. In 2017 his piece
À toa won 1
st prize at the 10
th International Composition Competition of Póvoa de Varzim. In 2018 he studied Orchestral Conducting with Jean-Sébastien Béreau.
In 2019, Miguel obtained his Master’s Degree in composition from the Codarts – University of the Arts in Rotterdam, where he studied with the composers René Uijlenhoet and Robin de Raaff. While living in the Netherlands he also had the opportunity to study with and learn from the composers such as Peter-Jan Wagemans, Klaas de Vries, George Benjamin and Trevor Wishart. This year also marked the premiere of his first opera at the festival New Beginnings, at the Maas Theater en Dans, in Rotterdam.
In 2020, in the framework of the Musa Prize promoted by theb MPMP – Patrimonial Movement for Portuguese Music, the jury composed by the composers
Andreia Pinto-Correia and Januíbe Tejera and the conductor
Jan Wierzba, awarded his piece
Um Adeus aos Deuses.
Miguel has a special interest in cinema and sings at the Coral de Letras da Universidade do Porto, a Portuguese choir led by José Luís Borges Coelho.
EXTERNAL LINKS
Miguel Resende Bastos' Personal Website
Last update: January 6, 2021
