Long Bio

Portuguese clarinetist Carlos Cordeiro is stalwart in creating and broadcasting new music, collaborating with composers and different disciplines, improvising, studying, and performing on the different instruments of the clarinet family. An orchestral and ensemble player, as well as a soloist, Carlos has toured Spain, China, Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, Russia, and the United States as a former member of loadbang and TAK ensemble. and played as part of groups such as Scope Ensemble, Vertixe Sonora, Particles Ensemble,  Argento New Music Project, [kla], Reflex Ensemble, New York New Music Ensemble, Metropolis Ensemble, DaCamera Young Artists, Tactus and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. The conductors and coaches he has worked with include Pierre Boulez, Antonio Saiote, Andrew Cyr, Magnus Lindberg, Chen Halevi, Anssi Karttunen, Alain Damiens, Phillipe Couper, Larry Combs, Ernesto Molinari and Marcus Weiss, Eduardo Leandro, Friederike Scheunchen, among others.

Carlos works freelance in Germany, both as a soloist and chamber musician. He holds a master’s degree in contemporary performance from the Manhattan School of Music, a master’s degree from Rice University, and a bachelor’s degree from ESMAE (Portugal). As a PhD student at the Freiburg School of Music in collaboration with the Haute École des Arts du Rhin and the Université de Strasbourg, he will explore New Complexity and the practice of performance and its ethics.

Short Bio

Portuguese clarinetist Carlos Cordeiro is stalwart in creating and broadcasting new music, collaborating with composers and different disciplines, improvising, studying and performing on the different instruments of the clarinet family. Carlos is a freelancer, equally as a soloist and chamber musician. He holds a Master’s Degree in Contemporary Performance from Manhattan School of Music, a Master’s Degree from Rice University and a Bachelor’s Degree from ESMAE (Portugal).

Tiny Bio

Carlos makes weird sounds on many clarinets.