Jaime Reis
Jaime Reis (born December 1983) is a composer from Lisbon, Portugal whose music has been presented in Portugal, Poland, Turkey, Brazil, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, France, Austria, and Belgium.
He started studying music at the age of five in Seia with António Tilly and started composing at twelve, studying at Conservatório de Música in Seia and Viseu. Between the ages of 17 and 22, he concluded a music teaching degree in Universidade de Aveiro, where he studied composition and electronic music with Isabel Soveral and João Pedro Oliveira. He finished the doctoral course in social sciences in Universidade Nova de Lisboa, where he is currently pursuing doctoral studies in musicology with Salwa Castelo-Branco and Emmanuel Nunes, whose composition seminars he attends regularly, namely those of Gulbenkian Foundation. He also attended Stockhausen courses in Germany.
Besides his activity as a composer, he is artistic director of the festivals, Days of Portuguese Music, in Kraków and Days of Electroacoustic Music in Portugal. He teaches and is co-directes of Conservatório de Música in Seia. His music has been presented, in, among others, his native country (Festival Música Viva and Festival de Música de Aveiro), in Poland, Turkey, Brazil, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, France, Austria (Hörfest 05, Graz), where he was invited to premiere his piece Lysozyme Synthesis, and Belgium (Ghent), where he premiere his piece Density Study, commissioned by the Logos Foundation. In 2006 and 2007, he was a composer in residence at Laboratory of Electroacoustic Creation (Miso Music, Portugal) and at Visby International Centre for Composers in 2007.
We was present at WASBE 2011.
Works
- A Anamnese das Constantes Ocultas, ensemble - Grupo de Música Contemporânea de Lisboa commission - 2010/2011
- A Omnisciência é um Colectivo, electronics and woodwind / brass band - Troviscal/INATEL commission - 2009/2011
- Estudos de Densidades II, ensemble - 2008
- Sinais no Tempo, guitar and electronics - 2007
- Densidades Emergentes, orchestra - 2006
- Density Study, robot orchestra - 2005
- Improvisação sobre três poemas de Al Berto, orchestra - 2004
- (Sobre o processo de) Replicação, ensemble - 2004
- Phonopolis, electronics - 2003/2004
- Síntese, orchestra - 2003
- Lysozyme Synthesis, piano - 2003
- Calmodulin Synthesis, percussion - 2002
- Estátua de Pessanha, piano, bass flute and real-time video - 2001
Papers
- Akademia Muzyczna Kraków, Três conferências sobre história da Música em Portugal, 2003
- “Breve história do desenvolvimento da tecnologia electrónica aplicada à composição musical”, 4º Encontro da Secção Portuguesa da AES (Audio Engineering Society), Universidade de Aveiro, June 2003
- Modelos matemáticos applicados à composição musical – Um meio ou um fim?, Escola Superior de Turismo e Telecomunicações de Seia, 2004
- “Biological models applied to musical composition”, Musical Thinking Today forum, 42. Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt, 2004
- Graz, Áustria | Hörfest | compositor convidado juntamente com o Miso Ensemble | estreia: Lysozyme Synthesis, 2005
- “Phonopolis” – apresentação da peça nas Listening Rooms da International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Barcelona, 2005
- Festivais de Música Electroacústica como produtos de Turismo, June 2006, Escola Superior de Turismo e Telecomunicações de Seia
- International Summer School of Systematic Musicology, Gent, Belgium, 2006
- A Música Electrónica de Luciano Berio, March 2007, Conservatório de Música de Seia
- “Biological Models and Music Composition”, poster apresentado no congresso “Musica e Genética”, Bologna, Italy, May 2007
- Introdução à História da Música em Portugal, Biblioteca Municipal de Palmela, May 2007
- Model ASEM, Cultural Pillar, Beijing, China, 2008
- Stockhausen Courses, Kürten, Germany, 2009 - moderator of the Forum for Music Educators
- Helsinki University, ASEFUAN AGM, Helsinki, Finland, 2010
- participant, 15th ASEF University, Woosuk University, Wanju, Jeonbuk Province, South Korea, 2009
- Model ASEM, guest speaker - “On the Cultural Policies in Portugal”, Sciences Po, Le Havre, France, 2009
- Gulbenkian Foundation - Introdução à obra Luiz Vaz 73, de Jorge Peixinho e Ernesto de Sousa - Lisbon, CAM, 2009
- ASEF’s Rapporteur - COP15 - “Arts, Culture and Sustainability: Building Synergies between Asia and Europe” and “Culture | Futures: The Transition to an Ecological Age 2050,” Denmark, December 2009
- Keio University, ASEFUAN AGM, Tokyo, Japan, 2010
- UNICAMP - Composition Lecture, Brazil, September 2010
- Salvador na Bahia, Brazil - UFBA - Composition Lectures - Guest composer at III FIMC - Festival Internacional de Música Contemporânea (along with composer Paulo Chagas, conductor Pedro Pinto Figueiredo and guitar player Pedro Rodrigues), September 2010
- Encontro Internacional de Música e Arte Sonora - EIMAS - “De Entretecimento a Omnisciência”, UFRJ /UNIRIO - Juiz de Fora e Rio de Janeiro, September 2010
- Culturgest, Lisboa - “Luís Vaz 73, uma possível reconstituição ou a reconstituição possível?”, Jorge Peixinho - Mémoires... Miroirs, October, 2010
- “Música Electroacústica e Espacialização”, Sociedade Portuguesa de Acústica, Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil - November 2010
References
- Jaime Reis in Classical Composers (English)
- Jaime Reis at Lisbon's multidisciplinary research center Instituto de Etnomusicologia - Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança (English)
- article À Volta da Electroacústica in Produção Áudio journal by André Pires (Portuguese)
- Jaime Reis in Music Information Centre (English)
- Jaime Reis in Studio Banana(Spanish)
- Jaime Reis news in Greek newspaper gnomionline (Greek)
- Jaime Reis in Hoerfest(English)
- in GenosLab (Portuguese)
- tribute in Artis (Portuguese)
- radio program from RUC (Portuguese)
- Jaime Reis in Logos Foundation (Dutch)
- Jaime Reis in Chinese newspaper english.eastday (English)
- Jaime Reis in Chinese newspaper english.eastday (English)
- Jaime Reis in Chinese newspaper news.cctv.com (Chinese)
- in the Philippines GMA NEWS http://www.gmanetwork.com/ (English)