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Andreia Pinto Correia wins the DSCH – Shostakovich Ensemble 2023 Prize for Composers
The composer Andreia Pinto Correia, born in Lisbon (1971) and currently living in New York City, is the DSCH – Shostakovich Ensemble Composition Prize winner. With a Doctoral degree by the New England Conservatory of Boston, Andreia Pinto Correia is a prominent figure within the international contemporary creation, mainly in the USA where her works have been commissioned and played by the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics, under the musical direction of the acclaimed Venezuelan Maestro Gustavo Dudamel.
Praised by the North American specialized critic, her music has been described as a “aural fabric” by The New York Times and “compellingly meditative” by The Boston Globe.
Andreia Pinto Correia has been commissioned by reference institutions, such as the Washington Performing Arts and Kennedy Center, the Tanglewood and Boston Symphony Orchestras, the League of American Orchestras, the European Union Presidency, the Symphonic Orchestra of São Paulo (OSESP), the American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, the Fromm Foundation/Harvard University, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Toulmin Foundation, the Chamber Music America, the National Ballet Company, the CGD-Culturgest Foundation, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation where, on last 12th October, her Cello Concerto Reverdecer was premiered by the Gulbenkian Orchestra, conducted by Aziz Shokhakimov, and the North American cellist Jay Campbell.
Andreia Pinto Correia began her studies in Lisbon at the Academia de Amadores de Música and at the portuguese Escola do Hot Clube, having done her Masters and Doctoral degrees at the New England Conservatory, in Boston, USA.
Distinguished with the Arts and Letters Award in Music, by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, Andreia Pinto Correia was the curator of the contemporary music festival Fertile Crescent, at the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, and resident composer and guest speaker in Canberra, Australia, having received the honorary title of Fellow of the Australian National University. Recently, she was a Guest Associate Professor at the Jacobs School of Music, in the University of Indiana.
Currently she is the curator, resident composer and co-director of the composition program at the Chamber Music Festival Bowdoin International Festival, in the coast of Maine.
In 2024, in May, the premier of a new symphonic work by the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and, in June, the premier of her new Piano Quintet by the DSCH – Schostakovich Ensemble at the Festival de Músicos dos Capuchos 2024, in Almada, stands out.
The DSCH – Shostakovich Ensemble Composition Prize was created in 2019 by the DSCH – Associação Musical, and is intended to reward a portuguese composer by their work and trajectory. It has the goal to encourage and publicize the Portuguese contemporary classical music creation of excellence. It is awarded by the DSCH – Schostakovich Ensemble and the previous winners have been the composers Luís Tinoco (2019) and Eurico Carrapatoso (2021).
DSCH – Schostakovich Ensemble, created in 2006 by the pianist and artistic director Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro, is considered to be one of the most relevant Chamber Music formations, in today's time. It has in its discography, albums dedicated to Schostakovich and Beethoven, edited and distributed by the Paraty/Harmonia Mundi PIAS, which have received the highest distinctions, by the national and international specialized critic.
The DSCH – Shostakovich Ensemble Composition Prize has a value of 6.000 € and the support of the Direção-Geral das Artes of the Portuguese Ministry of Culture.