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CAMP
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creative arts and music
project
international festival for electronic music and visual arts
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Born 1948 in Lisbon, Portugal
Carlos Zingaro undertook classical music studies at the Lisbon
Music Conservatory from 1953 to 1965, and during the two years
1967/68 he studied church organ at the High School of Sacred
Music. Also, during the 1960s, Zingaro was a member of the Lisbon
University Chamber Orchestra.
In 1967 he formed Plexus, the only Portuguese group at the time
to have developed a new musical approach based on contemporary
music, improvisation and rock; the group recorded a 45rpm single
for RCA-Victor in 1968.
From 1975 onwards Carlos Zingaro has performed with a wide variety
of improvising musicians, including: Barre Phillips, Daunik
Lazro, Derek Bailey, Joëlle Léandre, Jon Rose, Kent
Carter, Ned Rothenberg, Peter Kowald, Roger Turner, Rüdiger
Carl, Dominique Regef, Evan Parker, Günter Müller,
Andres Bosshard, Jean-marc Montera, and Paul Lovens. In 1978
he was invited by Wroclaw Technical University in Poland to
participate in the 1st Instrumental Theatre Meeting, and in
1979 he won a Fulbright Grant and was invited by the Creative
Music Foundation in Woodstock, New York to participate in meetings,
classes and performances with such composers as Anthony Braxton,
Roscoe Mitchell, George Lewis, Leo Smith, Tom Cora and Richard
Teitelbaum (a regular collaborator). He also gave lectures on
New Notation Concepts, Movement and Sound, and the inter-relationship
of Improvisation and Body Attitude. As a solist, or with other
musicians and composers, Carlos Zingaro has performed at many
of the most important new music and improvising festivals in
Europe, Asia and America.
A substantial level of Carlos Zingaro's musical activities are
associated with theatre, film and dance. In 1975 he completed
Stage Design studies at the Lisbon Theatre High School and later
served on the board of directors of the School. From 1974 to
1980 he was musical director for the Lisbon-based theatre group
Comicos, being responsible for most of the original music scores
performed during the period. In 1981 Carlos Zingaro received
the Portuguese Critics Award for best theatre music and in 1988
he worked with the Italian theatre director Giorgio Barberio
Corsetti on his Kafka Trilogy. He has also been stage and costume
designer for several other theatre productions. He has produced
several film scores and worked extensively with dancers and
dance companies such as the Gulbenkian Dance Company, the Opéra
de Genève Dance Company, Michala Marcus, Aparte, and
Olga Roriz.
Carlos Zingaro was a founding member of the Lisbon-based art
gallery Comicos, his work has been exhibited, and he has received
several prizes for his cartoons, comics and illustrations, samples
of which can be seen on a number of CD sleeves, for example,
Musiques de scène.
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Thomas Maos, Birgit Riegger 2005
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