Biography

Awards Won

Jorge Antunes is a renowned composer and conductor of contemporary Brazilian classical music. He is known internationally, having been the forerunner of electroacoustic music in Brazil. Several of his works have won national and international awards. These include: Città di Trieste Award (1970), Angelicum Milano Award (1971), Funarte Award, Rio de Janeiro (1983), Prize Estancias de Madrid (1998) and Ibermúsicas Award (2013).

 

1970
 Award Città di Trieste
Award da Foundation Sigma-Alfa-Yota Interamerican Music Awards
1971
 Award Angelicum di Milano
Award Avro of Gaudeamus Week of Conteporary Music
Award Riccardo Zandonai di Rovereto
1972
 Award of National Competition of Music Composition of Rio de Janeiro
1975
 Award of National Composition Competition of Biênio da Colonização e Imigração do Rio Grande do Sul
1976
 Award of National Composition Competition for Guitar
Award of National Composition Competition of Paraíba
1983
 Award Funarte, Rio de Janeiro
1991
 Award Vitae, São Paulo, 199
Award APAC of Brasília (Music for Theater)
1993
 Award of Recommandation at the Tribune Internacionale des Compositeurs, Unesco, Paris
1994
 Award Creative Music, Londrina, Brasil
1996
 Award of Recommandation at the Tribune Internacionale des Compositeurs, Unesco, Paris
1997
 Grant Rio-Arte 1997, Rio de Janeiro
1998
 Award Estancias, Madrid
2002
 Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, França
Honorary Citizen of Brasília, Legislative Assembly, DF, Brasil
2005
 Award 33 Years of UnB, Rector of University of Brasília
2007
 Award UnB 45 year, Rector of University of Brasília
Fellowship of Permanence of the Carolina Foundation, Madrid, España
2009
 Fellowship of Stimulus for Artistic Creation, Funarte
2011
 Medal of Freedom Citizenship, granted by the prefectures of Ritápolis, São João del-Rei and Tiradentes, Minas Gerais
2012
 Commission Funarte (Bienal 2013)
2013
 Award Ibermúsicas 2013
2014
 Grant ARSC 2014
Commission Funarte (Bienal 2015)
2016
 Commission Instituto Pensarte, Theatro São Pedro, São Paulo
Award Funarte (Bienal 2017)