Pedro Luís Neves

Pedro Luís Neves is a Portuguese modern composer of classical music and author of several other genres.

Pedro Luís Neves works as a composer and musician within many different musical fields, some of which include theatre plays and works with fusion between contemporary classical music and other genres (so called "crossover music"), such as jazz, Rock, electronica, and more. He also has extensive experience from working as producer, and occasionally recording engineer, in many recording sessions.

Born in Lisbon, 18 May 1955, Pedro Luís Neves started his musical studies in 1965 at the Lisbon Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Later at the Academia dos Amadores de Música, and studied piano, harmony and composition with Maestro João de Mello Júnior. He studied biology at the University of Lisbon and formed a jazz quartet at the Hot Club of Portugal, entered the universe of improvisation and composition techniques, simultaneously collaborating in the creation of two experimental theatre shows with Lisbon's Comuna Teatro de Pesquisa and Teatro Oficina from Brazil, in Brecht's play Galileo.

He dived into Brazilian popular music with Fernando Girão, and also into the complex structures of symphonic rock with Tantra performing live at the Coliseu dos Recreios in Lisbon. He recorded in Madrid as pianist and arranger with singers Paulo de Carvalho and Carlos Mendes the albums Sheiks and some TV series. In the 80s he arranged and performed the show Ser Solidário with singer composer José Mário Branco and toured as pianist with the orchestra.

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