Biography

Main Concerts and Festivals

Jorge Antunes, since the beginning of his career in 1961, has his works presented at concerts and festivals around the world. Received, and continues receiving, several commissions. Despite being a forerunner of electronic music in Brazil, his production covers all the formations: Chamber Music, Symphonic Music, Electroacoustic Music, Opera, etc. His works of these genres were selected and presented at various Festivals of ISCM (International Society for Contemporary Music).

1967
Tribune Internacionale des Compositeurs, Paris, France;
I Festival Interamericano de Música do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
1969
I Festival de Música da Guanabara, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
1971
Gaudeamus Music Week, Amsterdam, Holland;
ISCM Festival, Londres, England;
1972
ISCM Festival, Graz. Austria;
XX Olimpyad München Festival, Germany;
VI Autunno Musicale di Como, Italy;
1973
ISCM Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland;
Gaudeamus Music Week, Hilversum, Holland;
Tribune Internacionale des Compositeurs, Paris, France;
I Rencontre Internacionale d’Art Contemporaine, La Rochelle, France;
X Diorama de la Musique Contemporaine, Genève, Switzerland;
VIII Bienal of Paris, France;
1974
II Rencontre Internacionale d’Art Contemporaine, La Rochelle, France;
Steierischer Herbst, Graz, Austria;
1975
IX Autunno Musicale a Como, France;
Festival de Orsay, France;
1976
Musikfestival im Altmuhltal, Frankfurt, Germany;
VI Festival of Conteporari Music of Dublin, Ireland;
1977
I Simpósio Internacional de Compositores, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil;
1979
II Simpósio Internacional de Compositores, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil;
1980
ISCM Festival, Israel;
1982
ISCM Festival, Graz, Austria;
1984
ISCM Festival, Montreal, Canada;
1992
Festival Aspekte, Salzburg, Austria;
ISCM Festival, Warsaw, Poland;
1993
Tribune Internacionale des Compositeurs, Paris, France;
1994
Festival International Synthèse de Musique Electroacoustique, Bourges, France;
Festival Futura, Crest, France;
XXV Festival de Campos do Jordão, São Paulo, Brazil;
XIV Festival de Música de Londrina, Brazil;
1995
Festival Présences, Paris;
Festival International Synthèse de Musique Electroacoustique, Bourges, France;
9º Festival Latinoamericano de Música, Caracas, Venezuela;
Festival Futura de Crest, France;
1996
Cycle Acousmatique Son-Mu 96, GRM, Paris;
Tribune Internacionale des Compositeurs, Paris;
ISCM Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark;
1997
II Encontro de Música Eletroacústica, Brasília, Brazil;
International Computer Music Conference, ICMC’97, Tessaloniki, Greece;
1998
Ciclo de Música Experimental/Hacia las Fronteras del Mercosur, Córdoba, Argentina;
Jornadas de Música Eletroacústica de Aveiro, Portugal;
V Jornadas de Informática y Electrónica Musical, Madrid, Spain;
II BIMESP, Bienal de Música Eletroacústica do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil;
1999
ISCM Festival, Romania;
2000
Festival Futura, Crest, France;
Festival Musikorama, Hong-Kong;
2001
ISCM Festival, Yokohama, Japan;
2002
Festival Jorge Antunes, Zwölle, Holland;
2003
IIIème Rencontre Internationale de Musique Électroacoustique, Brasilia, Brazil;
2004
ISCM Festival, Switzerland
Festival Multiphonies, GRM, Paris, France;
2005
Portrait Jorge Antunes, Festival Futura de Crest, France;
XVII International Music Festival of Morelia, Mexico;
2007
Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica FILE 2007, São Paulo, Brazil;
Conteporary Music Festival Gendai-Ongaku, Japan;
2008
Conciertos del LIEM, Madrid, Spaina;
2009
Festival Futura, Crest, France;
EMS 09, Buenos Aires, Argentina;
Festival Futura de Crest, France;
XVIII Bienal de Música Brasileira Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
2010
XVI Festival Latinoamericano de Música, Caracas, Venezuela;
2011
Festival Resonancias de la Modernidad 50 Años del CLAEM – Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina;
2012
XXVI Panorama da Música Brasileira Atual, Brazil, Escola de Música da UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
Concert of 70 years of Jorge Antunes, Orquestra Sinfônica do Teatro Nacional de Brasília, Brazil;
2013
Premio Ibermúsicas, CMMAS, Morelia, Mexico;
2015
Festival Musica/Realità 2015, Milan, Italy;
2016
XII Jornadas Argentinas de Música Contemporánea e Investigación 2016, Cordoba;
Two Minioperas by Jorge Antunes, Brasilia, Brazil
2017
1º National Composition Competition Jorge Antunes, OSTNCS, Brasilia, Brazil
Multiphonies 17/18 (GRM, MPAA), Paris, France
Opera “O Espelho”, Theatro São Pedro, São Paulo, Brazil
Piano Recital, CD release “Jorge Antunes, Meus Pianistas”, Paris, France