Carlos Filipe Cruz

Carlos Filipe Matos Veiga da Silva Cruz

Biography:

Graduated with Masters in Music Education (Composition) by Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (ESML) is currently attending to a PhD Course in Performing Arts and Motion Image at the University of Lisbon. At ESML, he met with professors Carlos Marecos and António Pinho Vargas and also worked together with professors Carlos Caires, João Madureira, José Luís Ferreira, Luís Tinoco, Sérgio Azevedo and Roberto Perez.

Winner at the I Concurso Novos Compositores/ Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa and selected for the Mostra Nacional Jovens Criadores 2012, his music was presented at the NEU/NOW Festival 2011. Previously, he obtained an honorable mention in the I Concurso de Composição of the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa.