Paul Pinto is a writer, composer, performer, opera-sermonizer, and multi-disciplinary dabbler who makes music, new media, micro-theatres and durational performance by himself and with his friends. Some of those friends include the collectives thingNY, Varispeed and LoveLoveLove. A few favorite projects include Patriots with Jeffrey Young, Robert Ashley's Perfect Lives with Varispeed, Peter Maxwell Davies' Eight Songs for a Mad King, and the cyclorama video installation Whiteness with Kameron Neal. He sang and danced on Broadway in Dave Malloy's Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, and wrote and performed in the electronic opera Thomas Paine in Violence starring Joan LaBarbara. Recent commissions and partnerships include HERE Arts, Prototype Festival, Colgate University, The Fisher Center, the Look + Listen Festival, American Opera Projects, Opera America, Culturehub, LaMaMa, Quince Ensemble, WNET All Arts, Media Art Xchange, The Rhythm Method, Yarn/Wire, Gelsey Bell and Kristin Marting.
2.12.25 The All-Father: Part One (Side One: Rheingold)
A new musical ritual performed by Dax Valdes, Alex Gibson, Michael Chinworth, Paul MinChul An, Brian McCorkle and Paul Pinto.
With Nick Brooke's Hypnogogia
The Brick. Brooklyn.
3.13.25 Grain
Music for Meagan Woods' sonic dance duet with Shawn Brush
As part of FOCUS: a series of innovative choreography.
Art House Productions. Jersey City.
3.16.25
Selections from River Songs
Acoustic treatments of a few tunes from the decidedly unacoustic album I released on Gold Bolus in December. Featuring Zach Herchen on sax and Elena Chernova-Davis on violin. This short showing will preview the upcoming soundwalk and open the stage for Elena and pianist Ahmed Alom's recital Love Is...
Grace Church. Jersey City.
3.22.25 River Songs: an interactive album and soundwalk
A new mobile musical experience for headphones and the sweet surroundings of Jersey City's Lincoln Park and the Hackensack River tidal estuary. Move around the park to uncover a full album of songs, poems and reflections about our urban waterways.
Lincoln. Jersey City.
Paul Pinto is a writer, composer, performer, opera-sermonizer, and multi-disciplinary dabbler who makes music, new media, micro-theatres and durational performance by himself and with his friends. Some of those friends include the collectives thingNY, Varispeed and LoveLoveLove. A few favorite projects include Patriots with Jeffrey Young, Robert Ashley's Perfect Lives with Varispeed, Peter Maxwell Davies' Eight Songs for a Mad King, and the cyclorama video installation Whiteness with Kameron Neal. He sang and danced on Broadway in Dave Malloy's Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, and wrote and performed in the electronic opera Thomas Paine in Violence starring Joan LaBarbara. Recent commissions and partnerships include HERE Arts, Prototype Festival, Colgate University, The Fisher Center, the Look + Listen Festival, American Opera Projects, Opera America, Culturehub, LaMaMa, Quince Ensemble, WNET All Arts, Media Art Xchange, The Rhythm Method, Yarn/Wire, Gelsey Bell and Kristin Marting.
