Fátima Fonte

Fátima Fonte studied composition at ESMAE (Porto), and at Conservatorium of Music of Amsterdam. As part of her interest in vocal music and different musical traditions, she studied Hindustani music in India with the singer Aparna Gurav, with a scholarship from Fundação Oriente.

Her pieces have been performed at Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK), Gaudeaumus Music Week (NL), Festival 33.7 (Luxembourg), CCB, Maison de L’Unesco (Paris), Festival Saint-Denis (Paris), Festival Música Viva 2023 (Lisboa), Casa da Música (Porto), Milton Court Theatre (London), among others.

She was a Young Associate Composer at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in the 2017-2018 season, and in 2021 she premiered her opera “Concílio Celeste” (libretto by Patrícia Portela) at FIO – Informal Opera Festival, which she co-organized as part of a collective. In 2022, he wrote the songs “Tabaco” and “Voar na diagonal” for Cristina Branco, Bernardo Couto, and Ensemble Des Equilibres, which were performed in several French cities and at Casa da Música (Porto). She composed the music for “Ana Morphose” – a stop-motion animated short film by João Rodrigues, which premiered in 2023 and was screened at approximately 150 international film festivals. She has also written for Sound’Ar-te Electric Ensemble, Orquestra Portuguesa de Guitarras e Bandolins, Orquestra Gulbenkian, Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa, e Orquestra Filarmónica Portuguesa. In 2025, the opera “Abelardo e Heloísa”, with a libretto by Patrícia Portela, was premiered at the 2nd edition of FIO in Loulé. This year also saw the premiere of her pieces “Passiflora”, for Ensemble Contemporâneo da Póvoa de Varzim, and “Harpa de Ervas”, an audiovisual installation in collaboration with videographer Adriana Romero, conceived for the inauguration of Museu Nacional da Música.

She recently completed a PhD in Composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London), focusing on visible music.