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Tinoco, LuÃs (b. July 16, 1969, Lisbon). Portuguese composer of mostly orchestral and chamber works that have been performed in Europe and elsewhere.
Mr. Tinoco studied composition with Christopher Bochmann and António Pinho Vargas at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, where he earned his BA in 1996. He then studied composition with Paul Patterson at the Royal Academy of Music in London and there earned his MMus in 1999, on scholarships from the Centro Nacional de Cultura and the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. He has studied composition with Nicola LeFanu at the University of York since 2006, where he is working on his PhD. He has also attended seminars with Sir Harrison Birtwistle and Franco Donatoni, among others.
His music has been heard in Australia, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal, Slovenia, South Korea, the UK, and the USA, including once at the ISCM World New Music Festival in Ljubljana (2003).
Mr. Tinoco is also active in other positions. He presented a program of 20th- and 21st-century music, A Partitura de um Século, for RDP in Lisbon from 2000–03 and has produced the international new music program Geografia dos Sons for RDP since 2003. In addition, he has served as artistic director of the Prémio Jovens Músicos of RDP since 2006. He has also served as artistic director of the new music ensemble OrchestrUtopica since 2001.
He has taught analysis and composition at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa since 1999 and taught composition at the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo in Porto in 2003–04.
The University of York Music Press publishes most of his music.
Website: http://www.tinocoluis.com/
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