Isabel Soveral


Isabel Soveral is a Portuguese composer of contemporary music.
She graduated from the Conservatório Nacional de Lisboa where she studied with the composers Jorge Peixinho and Joly Braga Santos.
In 1988, she attended the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she studied with Daria Semegen and Bulent Arel, having completed her masters and PhD in Composition at that university.
She was a Fellow of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Luso-American Foundation and Fulbright Program.
She is part of an important group of portuguese composers that appeared in the 80's of the last century

Life and work

Her music ha been performed in Portugal, Spain, France, Austria, Belgium, Bulgary, Italy, Hungary, Switzerland, Poland, Sweden, Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Macao, Korea, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba and the USA.
She has several works in cd by the publishers Portugalsom and Strauss, EMI Classics, Nova Música, Capella, Deux-Elles, Numérica, ISCM-WMD, Miso Records, Plancton, IPCB and Musicamera.
As well as scores published by Musicoteca, Fermata, Cecilia Honegger, IPCB, MIC.
She is Professor of Composition, Theory and Musical Analysis in the Department of Communication and Art of the University of Aveiro since 1995.
She is the director of the CIME since 2014, having created the EAW platform. The last edition of this international conference has the following link: http://eaw.web.ua.pt/
She is a member of the Scientific Council of the Portuguese Music Research Center since 2008

Highlighted works of her catalogue

Anamorphoses III, for violin and electronics;
Anamorphoses VII, for chamber orchestra, commissioned by Casa da Música;
Anamorphoses VIII, commissioned by DGartes - DuoContracello;
Anamorphoses IX for cello and orchestra, commissioned by Casa da Música;
Anamorphoses VIII for cello, double bass, electronics and image, commissioned by Duo Contracello
  • Cycle Mémoires d'Automne - 1999-2003:
Image I, for solo marimba.
  • Cycle Le Navigateur du Soleil Incandescent - 2005-2016:
Première lettre, viola and piano, commissioned by Festival of Póvoa do Varzim;
Deuxième lettre, counter-tenor, choir and orchestra, commissioned by
Gulbenkian Foundation;
Paradeisoi, orchestra, commissioned by F. C. Gulbenkian.
Quatrième lettre, Chamber group, commissioned by Miso Music.
Première lettre, flutes and piano;
  • Shakespeare's Cycle - 2007-2014:
Since Brass nor stone..., soprano and electronic;
Kingdom of the Shore, voice, video and electronics. commissioned by Festivais de Outono
O Dragão Watatsumi, six percussionists, order DGartes - Drumming group
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