Bruno Pereira

With a degree in Singing from the School of Music and Performing Arts of Polytechnic of Porto (ESMAE), he joined the Vlaamse Opera Studio (Belgium) in the season of 2009 and the Opera Studio of the São Carlos National Theatre in the season of 2011. He studied with Fernanda Correia and Oliveira Lopes and took master classes with A. Salgado, H. Zadek, L. Sarti, M. Zampieri, P. MacMahon, L. Siew-Tuan and Sue McCulloch, with whom he worked for several years in the UK.

He has sung under the direction of conductors such as Niksa Bareza, J.L. Borges Coelho, M. Tardue, P. Herreweghe, Y. Nézet-Séguin, F. Rathé, I. Maylemans and others with ensembles such as Orquestra do Norte, Filarmonia das Beiras, Orquestra do Algarve, Orquestra Nacional do Porto, Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa, Grupo de Câmara do Porto, Spectra Ensemble, Clepsidra, Casco Phil, Collegium Vocale, hr Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, Rotterdam Symphonic Orchestra, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Arte mínima, among others. After more than a decade of intense activity in the field of opera and lyric singing, he has been developing a regular activity in the area of contemporary performance with the creation and presentation of various experimental works in collaboration with artists such as Girilal Baars, Dimitris Andrikopoulos, Horácio Tomé-Marques, Rui Penha, Rodrigo Malvar, António Aguiar, Telmo Marques, Oyvind Brandstegg, Mário Azevedo, Fernando José Pereira, Helena Marinho, Luis Bittencourt, Theodore Parker, Mantautas Krukauskas and others. Cofounded improvised music ensembles such as T3+1, NERD-C and MiLA.  In these diverse contexts, which characterise his career, he has performed in Portugal, Germany, Spain, France, Belgium, Holland, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Russia, Brazil, Argentina, Bosnia and Turkey.

He also has a degree in Music Production and Technology and a postgraduate qualification in opera and cultural management. Has completed his PhD at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto and is a researcher at i2ADS (Institute for the Arts, Design and Society), and member of its Scientific Council where he investigates the voice as a device for aesthetic interaction in contemporary performance practices with a strong focus in improvisation. Collaborator researcher at CESEM. He teaches at ESMAE where he coordinates the Master in Sound Arts and Technologies.