Ângela Maria Soares da Ponte (371E-0A64-34C6)

Curriculum Vitae

Ângela Maria Soares da Ponte

Ângela da Ponte (1984/ Azores) is a composer, professor and researcher currently living in Porto (Portugal). She has received commissions and has been performed by many prestigious ensembles, soloists and orchestras including Smirnov Quartet (Basel Music Academy), Remix Ensemble (PT), Oregon Symphony (US), Vertixe Sonora (ES) and Ensemble New Babylon (DE). Recognition of her work includes the performance and premieres at several festivals such as Festival Visiones Sonoras 2016 (MX), Audiokineza (PL), Kulturfabrik – 33,7 Festival (LU), Música Viva Festival 2022 (PT) and major distinctions include the appointment for Young Composer in Residence 2011 at Casa da Música (PT), representing Portugal at the 67th International Rostrum of Composers (RS), the Ibermúsicas Prize 2022 – Composition and Premiere category and selected work at the 2023 ISCM World Music Days in South Africa.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Ângela Maria Soares da Ponte

Citation names

da Ponte, Ângela

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 371E-0A64-34C6

Email addresses

amsdp@esmae.ipp.pt (Professional)

Websites

www.angeladaponte.com (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - Arts - Performing Arts Studies (Musicology, Theater Science, Dramaturgy)

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2023/06/07 - 2023/07/12 Concluded	Artistic Project Development Course (Outros) Form'Arte, Portugal
2016/09/21 - 2018/12/12 Concluded	Ensino de Música (Music Education) (Mestrado integrado) Major in 8 - Analysis and Composition Techniques Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal "Estratégias de análise da música electroacústica para a disciplina de A.T.C - um estudo de caso" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	18 valores
2010/10/04 - 2016/12/06 Concluded	Postgraduate study in Music, Musical Composition PhD by Research (Doctor of Philosophy) Major in Music Composition University of Birmingham College of Arts and Law, United Kingdom "Ensaios Sobre Cantos. Portfolio of musical compositions influenced by tradicional music from the Azores." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/09/26 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Portugal
	Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Música e das Artes do Espectáculo, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/09/25 - 2024/07/24	Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Música e das Artes do Espectáculo, Portugal
	Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo, Portugal
2023/09/25 - 2024/07/24	Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Música e das Artes do Espectáculo, Portugal

2022/09/26 - 2023/07/25	Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Música e das Artes do Espectáculo, Portugal
	Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Música e das Artes do Espectáculo, Portugal
2019/10/01 - 2020/07/31	Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Música e das Artes do Espectáculo, Portugal
	Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Música e das Artes do Espectáculo, Portugal
2017/10/01 - 2018/07/25	Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Música e das Artes do Espectáculo, Portugal
	Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Música e das Artes do Espectáculo, Portugal
2016/10/01 - 2017/07/26	Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Música e das Artes do Espectáculo, Portugal
	Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Música e das Artes do Espectáculo, Portugal
2015/10/02 - 2016/07/01	Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Música e das Artes do Espectáculo, Portugal
	Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Música e das Artes do Espectáculo, Portugal

Other Careers

	Category Host institution	Employer
2008/09/01 - Current	Professor do ensino básico e secundário (Professor do ensino básico e secundário)	Associação Cultural Comendador Manuel Correia Botelho, Portugal
	Conservatório Regional de Música de Vila Real, Portugal
2019/10/09 - 2022/08/31	Professor do ensino básico e secundário (Professor do ensino básico e secundário)	Academia de Artes de Chaves, Portugal
	Academia de Artes de Chaves, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/02/28 - 2022/03/01	Speaker and monitor	Conservatório Regional de Ponta Delgada, Portugal
	Conservatório Regional de Ponta Delgada, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2022/07/01 - 2023/07/31	Electroville N/A Invited Scientist Fellow	Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral das Artes Concluded
2021/09/01 - 2022/01/31	5 graus 5 peças N/A Composer in collaboration Arpejo Editora, Portugal	Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral das Artes Concluded
2021/09/01 - 2022/01/31	5 graus 5 peças N/A Composer in collaboration	Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral das Artes
2019 - 2021	Cidades (in)visíveis DGArtes 001041 Composer Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral das Artes, Portugal	Concluded
2016 - 2017	Artistic project "Interculturalidades/Intertextualidades" DgArtes Composer Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral das Artes, Portugal	Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2024/02/20 - 2024/02/25	Artistic project "Magnetic Fields" N/A Artistic residency Arquipélago - Contemporary Art Center, Portugal	Governo dos Açores Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2020 - 2021	Artistic project "Rancho Folclórico Experimental do Carvalhido" n/a Composer Câmara Municipal do Porto, Portugal	Câmara Municipal do Porto Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book	da Ponte, Ângela. Havana Club. Lisbon, Portugal: Arpejo Editora. 2023. Published da Ponte, Ângela. A Cidade de Valdrada. Valencia, Spain: Tot per l'Aire. 2022. Published da Ponte, Ângela. 5 graus 5 peças, for trumpet. Lisbon, Portugal: Arpejo Editora. 2022. Published da Ponte, Ângela. 5 graus 5 peças, for bassoon. Lisbon, Portugal: Arpejo Editora. 2022. Published
Conference paper	da Ponte, Ângela; Andrikopoulos, Dimitrios. "Looking Back - Stepping Forward, Creation through the Spectrum of Tradition". Paper presented in NCMM23 - Nova Contemporary Music Meeting, Lisbon, 2023. In press
Thesis / Dissertation	da Ponte, Ângela. "Estratégias de análise da música eletroacústica para a disciplina de A. T. C.: um estudo de caso". Master, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/25239. "Ensaios Sobre Cantos - Portfolio of Musical Compositions Influenced by Traditional Music from The Azores". PhD, The University of Law - Birmingham Campus, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/6885.

Artistic / Performance

Audio recording

Dias, João ; Grossinho, José; Lima, Rodrigo; Roda (Producer). 2023. "inDex(a)". In Electroville.
Dias, João ; Saleiro, Clara; Cardoso, Frederic; Albuquerque, Carina; Sonoscopia (Producer). 2023. "in[Trails]out". In Obras Portuenses da Década de 20, Sonoscopia.
Pires, Ricardo; Duktus Sound Studio (Producer). 2023. "Ao longe meu pai dizia...". In Windsor Project.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/07/22	Looking Back - Stepping Forward, Creation through the Spectrum of Tradition	ANIMUSIC 2023 - 11th International Scientific Meeting for Sound, Music and Musical Instrument Studies ANIMUSIC - Associação Nacional de Instrumentos Musicais (Coimbra, Portugal)
2023/07/12	AKOUSMA - A cortina de Pitágoras	ENCAPE - Encontro Nacional de Composição e Análise musical: Perspectivas Educacionais Conservatório de Música de Coimbra, INET-md, CESEM, Universidade de Aveiro (Coimbra, Portugal)
2022/11/12	"Ensaios Sobre Cantos IV - para além do quadrado"	Encontro de Investigação em Música 2022 Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2022/04/30	Os concursos de composição dedicados a mulheres compositoras - necessários?	Festival Theia -Conferência - "Onde estão as criadoras hoje?" Associação Malaposta (Odivelas, Portugal)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2024/02/23 - 2024/02/25	Festival Prolífica - 2nd Edition. Music festival with women composers. (2024/02/23 - 2024/02/25) Festival (Member of the Organising Committee)	Associação Prolíficas - Comunidade Compositoras Açores , Portugal Arquipélago - Contemporary Art Center, Portugal
2023/02/24 - 2023/02/25	Festival Prolifica - 1st Edition. Music festival with women composers (2023/02/24 - 2023/02/25) Festival (Co-organisor)	Associação Prolíficas - Comunidade Compositoras Açores , Portugal Arquipélago - Contemporary Art Center, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2023/12/13	"Hearing a culture: integrating sound and environmental elements of Braga's festivities into new compositions" (Thesis) Arguer	Carlos Brito Dias (PhD) Artesis Plantijn Hogeschool Antwerpen Koninklijk Conservatorium Antwerpen, Belgium
2022/12/12	Oficina de composição: uma experiência de ensino produtivo de música num contexto de aprendizagem musical reprodutiva (Thesis) Main arguer	Beirão, Pedro Guilherme Moreno (Master) Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Comunicação e Arte, Portugal
2022/07/21	Criação de peças mistas em Análise e Técnicas de Composição: um estudo caso (Thesis) Main arguer	Antunes, Carina (Master) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2023/09/28 - 2023/10/01	ENIM 2023	Sociedade Portuguesa de Investigação em Música

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2023/09/25 - 2024/07/24	Electroacoustic Music I & II; Music Programming I & II; Interactive Music I & II; Individual Composition V & VI	(Bachelor (1st cycle))	Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Música e das Artes do Espectáculo, Portugal
2023/09/25 - 2024/07/24	Individual Composition I & II	(Master)	Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Música e das Artes do Espectáculo, Portugal
2022/09/26 - 2023/07/25	Introduction to Electroacoustic Music; Sound Analysis and Synthesis; Music Programming I & II; Digital and Interactive Systems; Music Formalization; Individual Composition V & VI	(Bachelor (1st cycle))	Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Música e das Artes do Espectáculo, Portugal
2023/03/13 - 2023/03/13	Workshop "The contemporary music and its notation"	(Outros)	Associação Portuguesa de Compositores, Portugal
2022/02/28 - 2022/03/01	Workshop "The contemporary music and its notation"	Secundário de Música (Ensino secundário)	Conservatório Regional de Ponta Delgada, Portugal

Other jury / evaluation

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2023/09 - 2023/10	MUSA 2023 Prize (Jury member)	MPMP - Património Musical Vivo, Portugal
2022/04/02 - 2022/04/02	1st Performance Competition by Arpejo Editora (Jury member)	Arpejo Editora, Portugal
2019/07 - 2019/07	5th Composition Competition for Flute (Jury member)	Academia de Flautas de Verão, Portugal
2018/07/31 - 2018/07/31	Joint Competition for Composers and Flutists - "Flute: Hands on Research 2018"	Instituto de Etnomusicologia Centro de Estudos em Musica e Danca - polo Universidade de Aveiro DeCA, Portugal

Distinctions

Award

2022	Prémio Ibermúsicas - Composição e Estreia de Obra Ibermúsicas, Paraguay
2017	National Composition Competition 1st Edition Manuel Emílio Porto - Honorable Mention Câmara Municipal das Lajes do Pico, Portugal

Other distinction

2023	World Music Days 2023 (Official Portuguese Selection) International Society For Contemporary Music, Austria
2021	Representing Portugal at the 67th International Rostrum of Composers 2021, Belgrado Antena 2/ 67th International Rostrum of Composers 2021, Belgrado, Serbia
2011	Young Composer in Residence at Casa da Música Fundação Casa da Música, Portugal
2010	Selected for the 8th Gulbenkian Young Portuguese Composer's Workshop Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
2010	Selected for the II Labjovem Edition - Young Azorean Creators 2009 Labjovem, Portugal