Tiago Derriça

Composer Tiago de Sousa Derriça was born in Lisbon in 1986. He started his musical studies at age seven, then he attended the CMML (Metropolitan Conservatory) where he studied Cello with Eugen Prochác, Peter Flanagan and João Pires. During this period of time he had Composition lessons with the composer Pedro Faria Gomes. In 2004, 2007 and 2008 Tiago Derriça attended Leiria Summer Conducting Workshop with Jean-Sébastien Béreau. He also took part of the Second National Workshop of the OSAM (Metropolitan Academic Orchestra) with the conductor Michael Zilm. He graduated in Composition at the ESML (Lisbon College of Music), where he studied with João Madureira, Luís Tinoco, Sérgio Azevedo, Vasco Azevedo, Roberto Perez, Benoît Gibson, António Pinho Vargas and others. Tiago was admitted at the UE (Évora University) where he is studying Composition with Christopher Bochmann. His works has been performed by various chamber groups, as well as the OSL (Lisbon Sinfonieta Orchestra), OML (Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra), EUCO (European Union Chamber Orchestra), Ricercare Choir and NOL (Lisbon New Orchestra) where he is composer-in-residence.(text by Tiago Derriça)

My Space

Tiago Derriça's "Diaphonia" by Lisbon Sinfonietta, cond. Vasco Pearce de Azevedo (2nd Renaissance of Portuguese Composition project on You Tube):

Pedro Faria Gomes

Pedro Faria Gomes (b.1979, Lisbon) has studied at the Academia de Música de Santa Cecília with Leonor Fernandes (piano) and João Madureira (composition). He graduated in composition at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa in 2001, where he studied with Eurico Carrapatoso and Christopher Bochmann. He lectured in analysis at the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa Conservatoire from 1999 to 2007 as well as composition techniques and analysis at the AMSC and the Piaget Institute of Almada. He won the Lopes-Graça Prize in Composition (Tomar) with À Memória de Anarda in 2007. Recently, his music represented Portugal at the Expo 2008 in Zaragoza. Pedro Faria Gomes is currently in his final year of a MMus programme in composition at the Royal College of Music studying with David Sawer. He had scholarships from both the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia and the RCM. He also won the PRS Sir Arthur Bliss Memorial award in 2007-8 and a Stanley Picker Trust award in 2008-9. His music has been released on CD by Compasso and Numérica. Past performances of Pedro Faria Gomes’ music include: I Solisti Veneti with Claudio Scimone, Orquestra Nacional do Porto with Luís Carvalho, Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa and Orquestra do Algarve, both with Cesário Costa, Sinfonietta de Lisboa with Vasco Azevedo, Coro de Câmara Lisboa Cantat with Jorge Alves, Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra with Patrick Bailey, Composers Ensemble with Richard Baker, Contemporary Consort with Tom Davey. And such venues as: Teatro Nacional São João, Grande Auditório da Culturgest, Teatro Municipal São Luiz, Teatro Diogo Bernardes, Teatro Municipal Sá de Miranda, Fundação de Serralves, Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, Casa da Música, Escola de Música do Conservatório Nacional, Conservatoire Claude Debussy, National Portrait Gallery, Royal College of Music, Victoria and Albert Museum, Southbank Centre. (text by Pedro Faria Gomes)