Biography

In 2019, Lino Pinto started the Doctoral Program in Music, specialization in Music Theory and Analysis, at the University of Aveiro (UA), with the aim of contributing to the analysis and dissemination of 20th century portuguese classical music. He was born in Vila Real, taking his first musical steps in Banda de Música de Mateus. In 1991 he concluded the clarinet course at Fundação Conservatório Regional de Gaia (FCRG) in Prof. Saul Silva's class. In 1999 he graduated in Composition under the guidance of Prof. Cândido Lima at Escola Superior e Artes do Espetáculo (ESMAE). In 2005 he completed his Master's Degree in Music Composition at UA under the guidance of Prof. Isabel Soveral. He has actively participated in several seminars in the area of Musical Direction: in 1991, with Maestro Ivo Cruz; in 1994, with Maestro Gerald Kegelmann; in 1995, with Maestro Omri Hadari.

His activity has been developed mainly in the pedagogical area at FCRG, in the teaching of Analysis and Composition Techniques, Musical Formation and Music Ensemble, at the Conservatório Regional Gaia, and Musical Analysis and Instrumentation at the Conservatório Superior de Música de Gaia. In the performative area he directed for some years the Wind Orchestra of FCRG and several philharmonic bands. During several seasons he was part of the Contemporary Vocal Music Group directed by Maestro Mário Mateus. In the field of composition his work is characterized by sounds coming from specific sets of notes, rhythms and textures, induced by geometric processes. He was awarded with honorable mention in the 1st National Contest of Thematic Composition for Amateur Choirs/97. He participated in the Festival Internacional de Electroacústica – Música Viva/99 and 2000 with the works Clavistar and Punctusciber. In the project "Postais de Portugal" from EPTA-Portugal (Portuguese Association of Piano Teachers), he presented two pieces for piano, selected for the 2006 Congress held in Madeira. He has collaborated with the Youth Choir of FCRG in the elaboration of orchestral arrangements of operettas, and harmonization of traditional songs. Highlights include: Isonomias para Violoncelo e Piano (2011), premiered at Prémio Jovens Músicos by Fábio Pinto and Pedro Borges at Casa da Música; Cadentes Cadências for Solo Violin (2014), premiered by João Castro at ESMAE; Clavistar 2, for Clarinet and Electronics, premiered in 2017 by Diogo Taveira at ESMAE; and, Spirals - snare drum duet (2018), premiered in 2019 by João Nuno and João Vieira at FCRG.