Mariana Vieira

Mariana Vieira (Portugal, 1997) is a composer based in Lisbon.
She studied Music Composition at the Lisbon College of Music (ESML), where she completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree under the supervision of Jaime Reis.
Her work includes acousmatic, mixed and instrumental music in solo, chamber, ensemble and orchestral settings, as well as pedagogical compositions.
Her music has been performed in festivals such as Young Euro Classic and BachFest (Germany), L’Espace du Son (Belgium), Audio Art (Poland), Electroacoustic Music Days (Greece) Crossroads and Echoes Around Me (Austria), Monaco Electroacoustique (Monaco), Aveiro_Síntese and Música Viva (Portugal).
She has been awarded prizes such as the European Composer Award (Germany) in 2017 for her piece “Raiz”, written for the Portuguese Youth Orchestra (JOP), the Electronic Music Composition Contest of Musicworks magazine (Canada) in 2021 and the Young Lion*ess of Acousmatic Music (Austria) award of The Acousmatic Project in 2022.
Besides her compositional output, she is interested in developing artistic projects that combine music, technology and education, a work that she carries out as a team member of Projecto DME, Lisboa Incomum and EMSCAN.
Since 2021, she is also an Invited Assistant Professor at the College of Applied Arts (ESART), in Castelo Branco, Portugal.
She is currently pursuing her PhD in Composition at FBAUL (University of Lisbon) in collaboration with ESML under the supervision of Carlos Caires and António Sousa Dias.