Eugénio Amorim

Eugénio Amorim has a doctorate from the Portuguese Catholic University with a thesis entitled “Compositional practice in sacred music in Portugal in the first half of the 18th century – Study and edition of the work of João Rodrigues Esteves”. He continues his research activity as an integrated member of CESEM – Centre for the Study of Sociology and Musical Aesthetics of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon. He was member of the Installation Committee of the Catholic University’s School of the Arts, where he taught from its foundation until 2003, he has since continued teaching on the Composition Course at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto’s School of Music and Performing Arts, where he is currently President of the Technical-Scientific Council. He studied piano and composition at the Oporto Conservatory of Music and later took a bachelor’s degree in orchestral conducting and a degree in sacred music at the Würzburg University of Music (Germany). Conductor of the Porto Cathedral Choir from 1994 to 2010. In addition to the Cathedral’s musical activity, he has conducted around 300 concerts in Portugal, England and. His activity extends to musical composition, with recent works such as 2 Magnificats, “Psalm 84 – Monastic Landscapes – Silence” for choir and Ensemble a1, “Was war denn das” for trombone and piano, “Cantiones Harmonicae” (30′), for children’s choir, trombone and organ; Via Lucis (42′), for mixed choir a8, percussion and organ; “Royal Opera: Repetition of the End of the World” (20′) and Turris eburnea (10′) for solo organ. He is regularly active as an organist, and in this context the role he plays in improvisation is particularly important, in a permanent dialogue between notated and improvised music, and even with other arts such as poetry, painting, etc.