Jorge Peixinho


Jorge Manuel Marques Peixinho Rosado was a Portuguese composer, pianist and conductor.
Peixinho studied composition and piano initially at the Conservatory of Lisbon, then studied composition with Boris Porena and Goffredo Petrassi at the Accademia de Santa Cecilia in Rome, graduating in 1961. After working with Luigi Nono in Venice, he studied with Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen in Darmstadt and at the Academy of Music in Basel on various occasions between 1960 and 1970.
In 1970, he created the Lisbon Contemporary Music Group with Clotilde Rosa, and worked at the IPEM studio in Ghent from 1972 to 1973.

Works (selective list)

LP: Tecla, 1972
LP: Sassetti, 1974
LP: Sassetti, 1978
led by / dir. Carlos Franco.
LP: Sassetti, 1982
Fernando Laires, piano; Manhattan String Quartet.
Educo,
LP: Fundação Nacional de Arte/ Memória Musical Brasileira - "National Foundation for Art/ Brazilian Music Heritage", 1985.
. José Lopes e Silva, guitar.
LP: PortugalSom, 1985
LP: Poly, 1988.
Jorge Peixinho:
Orquestra Sinfónica de Budapeste/ GMCL.
CD: PortugalSom, 1991.
. António Saiote, clarinet.
CD Strauss-PortugalSom, 1995.
Jorge Peixinho:
includes - Sax-blue, Passage intérieur, Fantasia-Impromptu.
Daniel Kientzy, saxofones /Filarmonica Transilvania et al.,
CD: Nova Musica, 1996
,
Grupo de Música Vocal Contemporânea "Contemporary Vocal Group",
dir. Mário Mateus /Jorge Peixinho, Francisco Monteiro e Jaime Mota, pianos
2CD: Numérica, 1996
CD: AM&M, 2002
Miguel Borges Coelho, piano.
2CD: Numérica, 2005