New York native Paul Pinto is a composer, vocalist and founding artistic director of thingNY. His music has been performed in the International Istanbul Film Festival, Glasgow’s Shakespeare in the City Festival, and by ensembles and performers including Pauline Oliveros, the BBC Scottish Symphony, the Cuarteto Latinoamericano, loadbang, the ai Ensemble and IKTUS Percussion Quartet. Paul is also a conductor and is an advocate of underrepresented experimentalists in classical music. At the helm of thingNY (called an "inventive new music cabal" by Time Out New York) Paul has recorded and performed the experimental opera, ADDDDDDDDD, and has premiered hundreds of works from emerging composers in thingNY's five year existence. Paul has also led premieres of more established composers like Paul Burnell, Art Jarvinen, Kyle Gann, Gerard Grisey, and Robert Ashley. Paul has also released four albums: The Gentlemen, Every Note on the Piano, NUDES, and For Stefanos Tsigrimanis, and scenes from his ballet Miseke on DVD. His scores have been published by Deep Listening.

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