Jaime Reis

Adjunct Professor, Specialist

Jaime Reis

jaimereis@ipcb.pt

Jaime Reis (b. 1983) is a Portuguese composer.
He studied Composition and Electroacoustic Music with João Pedro Oliveira, Emmanuel Nunes, and K. Stockhausen. He continued his Ph.D. Studies at Nova University in Ethnomusicology.
Reis’ music is informed by both his keen interest in cutting-edge research in the natural sciences and his abiding attention to Asian musical - and indeed spiritual - traditions.
One of his focuses is the dynamics of forms, forces, and fluxes in music. He explores spatial polyphonic paths through dome-shaped immersive sound systems.
Another striking feature of his music is the presence of fairly complex concepts that underpin the construction of his pieces, whilst not in any manner distracting from their sensible beauty. Ideas work as hidden functions which, their intellectual rigor notwithstanding, generate voluptuous musical forms.
Reis is a Professor of Composition and Electroacoustic Music in the Lisbon College of Music (ESML), Escola Superior de Artes Aplicadas (ESART), and a researcher at the Nova Institute of Ethnomusicology. He is the artistic director of Projecto DME and of Lisboa Incomum, both of which develop an intense activity of research and creation in contemporary music.
His music has been performed worldwide by ensembles and musicians such as Christophe Desjardins, Pierre-Yves Artaud, Aida-Carmen Soanea, Ana Telles, Ensemble Fractales, Ensemble Horizonte, Grupo de Música Contemporânea de Lisboa, Machina Lírica, Orchestre de Flûtes Français and Aleph Gitarrenquartett.