Born in 1940, Ant\u00f3nio Victorino d\u2019Almeida started his musical studies with Marina Dewander Gabriel. After that, he studied Piano with Ferbando Leit\u00e3o, composition with Artur Santos and Joly Braga Santos and Musical History with Maria Augusta Barbosa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He finished, with 19 points (out of 20), the Superior Piano Course at the National Conservatory of Lisbon. where he was a student of Campos Coelho. Then, thanks to a scholarship from the Instituto da Alta Cultura, he went to Vienna, where he refined his performance technique with Wladislav Kedra and Dieter Weber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also in Wien, he graduated in composition with Karl Schiske, with the highest classification awarded by the Higher School of Music in that city. The jury was unanimous in that classification. He received the special award from the Austrian Ministry of Culture for being the best finalist student each year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Later, he received a scholarship from Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Calouste Gulbenkian to study contemporary music with the composer Friedrich Cerha, electronic music with Dieter Kaufman and orchestral direction with Prof. Koslik. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For seven years he held the position of Cultural Attach\u00e9 at the Embassy of Portugal in Wien. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was a member of the jury at the Vianna da Motta Competition in Lisbon and the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition to being a concert performer, Victorino d\u2019Almeida is a prolific composer, being undoubtedly one of the Portuguese composers who produced the most work, covering the most varied musical genres, such as solo music, for piano and other instruments, chamber music, symphonic and choral music, including opera, fado and a lot of music for cinema and theater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Al\u00e9m de concertista, Victorino d\u2019Almeida \u00e9 um prol\u00edfico criador, sendo, sem d\u00favida, um dos compositores portugueses que mais obra produziu, abrangendo os mais variados g\u00e9neros musicais, como a m\u00fasica a solo, para piano e outros instrumentos, m\u00fasica de c\u00e2mara, sinf\u00f3nica e coral, incluindo \u00f3pera, fado e muita m\u00fasica para cinema e teatro.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":16622,"template":"","categories":[49],"ano":[9,7],"com-pagina":[],"class_list":["post-16489","artista","type-artista","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pagina_artistas","ano-9","ano-corrente","entry","has-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicfest.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artista\/16489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicfest.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artista"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicfest.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artista"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicfest.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicfest.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicfest.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16489"},{"taxonomy":"ano","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicfest.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ano?post=16489"},{"taxonomy":"com-pagina","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicfest.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/com-pagina?post=16489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}