Ricardo Ribeiro was born in Aveiro on 30th January 1971. After having graduated in Composition at Lisbon Higher School of Music, supervised by Christopher Bochmann and António Pinho Vargas, he took the Course of Alto Perfezionamento Musicale (Composizione) in Italy for the two years after. The course was coordinated by the composer Franco Donatoni. Between 1998 and 2002, he carried out his composition and investigation work in Paris with the composer Emmanuel Nunes, who has been since the...

Joan Riera Robusté began his musical studies at the Conservatori Superior de Música de Barcelona and at the Aula de Música del Conservatori del Liceo, and the teacher Lluís Vergés, where he learned both classic and Jazz music, later obtaining a scholarship to study jazz composition at the Berklee College of Music. He took further studies in classical composition at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya, where he re...

1992 – 1993 studies in composition (Ladislav Burlas) 1993 – 1999 Faculty of Medicine of the Comenius University in Bratislava 1994 – 2000 Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (composition – Vladimír Bokes) 2006 – 2010 postgraduate study of composition and electroacoustic music at the University in Aveiro, Portugal (thesis: Gesture Interaction in Music for Instruments and Electroacoustic Space...