Vasco Martins

Vasco Martins
Born 1956
Queluz, Portugal
Origin Cape Verde
Occupation(s) Musician
Instruments Guitar, Piano, Synthesizer
Years active 1976–present
Website http://www.vascomartins.com

Vasco Martins is a Cape Verdean musician and composer. Born in Queluz, Portugal, in 1956,[1] he lives now in Calhau, Cape Verde.

In the Cape Verdean musical panorama, Vasco Martins may be considered unique. A composer who refuses to be labeled, he may be considered a classical musician[2] because of his incursions into symphonic orchestra music, but he may also be considered as a new age musician[3] because of his instrumental compositions, mostly using synthesizers, but in both cases, always inspired by traditional Cape Verdean music.

Self-taught, he began his studies in 1974. He was a member of the band Colá in 1976, but then went to Portugal where he studied with Fernando Lopes Graça and later to France to pursue his musical education with Henri-Claude Fantapié. In 1979 he recorded his first LP. He returned to Cape Verde, and it is there that he has created most of his work as a composer and instrumentist, but also as musicologist and producer, he organized and founded the Baía das Gatas Music Festival along with his friends in 1984, the first music festival in the nation. His album Lua água clara (Clear Moon Water), a CD was recorded in Paris in 2008.

Compositions

Symphonies

Instrumental music

Other works

Discography

Chamber music

Piano works

Guitar works

Electronic music

Musicals

Operas

Date Title Acts Premiere Libretto
2008 Crioulo 27 March 2009, Lisbon, Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB) as componist, with cantata "Lágrimas na Paraise"

Poems

References

  1. ↑ Sudplanete, diversité culturelle
  2. ↑ A Semana online - Interview with Vasco Martins
  3. ↑ Interview with Carlos Martins & Vasco Martins (in Portuguese)
  4. ↑ Symphony No. 9, performed by the "Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra" with Vit Micka

External links

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