Born in Fundão, David started his composition studies at Conservatório de Música de Coimbra with Ana Magalhães
Major in Composition at Escola Superior de Música, Artes e Espectáculo, (ESMAE) Porto, where he worked with Luis Tinoco, Carlos Guedes, Eugénio Amorim, Filipe Vieira, Nuno Côrte-Real and Dimitris Andrikopoulos
Master in Music Education, field of Music Composition, by Universidade de Aveiro - Departamento de Comunicação e Arte, under guidance by Sara Carvalho:
"O Ensino Aprendizagem da Análise Musical Através de Estratégias de Questionamento"
Teacher at Escola Artística do Conservatório de Música de Coimbra since 2012
Composer published by AVA Musical Editions, MIC.PT (Portuguese Music Research & Information Centre), MPMP (Movimento Patrimonial Pela Música Portuguesa) and Libellus Usualis
Colaboration with Agência Nacional para a Qualificação e o Ensino Profissional, I.P. (ANQEP, I.P.) in the project "Aprendizagens Essenciais" as specialist developing the curriculum for Music Theory and Analysis subject.
Responsible for organizing in partnership with composer Sara Carvalho the
ENCAPE - Encontro Nacional de Composição e Análise Musical: Perspectivas Educacionais
Resident Composer in FICA'18 (International Choir Festival - Aveiro 2'18) and Festival ZêzereArts 2018
Highliths among his music compositions are works for choir, chamber music, orquestra, colaborations in theater, art instalations and arrangements for varied instrument formations
Frequent colaborator with Coro Anonymus, which dedicates exclusively to the performance of living portuguese contemporary composers
Worked in several music schools and conservatories such as
Academia de Música e Dança do Fundão
Centro de Cultura Musical
ARTAVE - Escola Profissional Artística do Vale do Ave
Escola de Música da Póvoa de Varzim
Escola de Música do Centro de Cultura Pedro Álvares Cabral, Belmonte
Conservatório de Música da Covilhã
Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Piaget
Researcher in the field of questioning in music education, namely through workshops and action-research projects
Colaborated with Serviço Educativo at Casa da Música from 2005 to 2006 and was a member of project Digitópia between 2007 and 2010
Participated in masterclasses, workshops and other courses with Clarence Barlow, Magnus Lindberg, Jonathan Harvey, Bruce Pennycook, Tim Steiner, Sam Mason, Paul Griffiths, Klaus Trumpf, Fernando Flores and Olga Prats
Biographical audio interview celebrating the 40th birthday (Portuguese only)
Partnership Antena 2/MIC.PT - RTP Play
"Música Hoje - Na 1.ª Pessoa: David Miguel"
Interview on XpressingMusic (Portuguese only)
"David Miguel fala-nos da composição e do ensino da música em Portugal."
Premiere of "Sorrow came and wept" (Portuguese only)
"ZêzereArts levou música até ao Convento de Cristo"
Interview "In Focus" in the Portuguese Music Research & Information Centre
David Miguel
composer
