DAN PINTO, ANIMATOR
GABE PINTO, ILLUSTRATOR
MUSIC @ CARNEGIE MELLON
JOE HALLMAN, COMPOSER
COMA @ ABC NO RIO
GOODBYE BLUE MONDAY, BROOKLYN
ANIMAL NUDITY, GUITAR IMPROVISER
JEFFREY YOUNG, COMPOSER
ERIN ROGERS, COMPOSER
ANDREW LIVINGSTON, COMPOSER
ANDREA LA ROSE, COMPOSER
BARRY SEROFF, COMPOSER
New York native, Paul Pinto is quickly making himself known in the avant-garde music circles of the metro area as a "cutting-edge" composer, an exciting performer and founding director of the city's freshest experimental band, thingNY.
Paul began his composition training at Carnegie Mellon University studying with Leonardo Balada and Nancy Galbraith and earned his Master's from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, studying with John Maxwell Geddes and James Macmillan. His various conducting teachers include Robert Page, Frank Nemhauser, Alastair Mitchell, Duain Wolfe, David Hayes and Gary Walker.
With Ensemble Thing under his baton, he led the premiere performances of several works of his peers and the noteworthy Scottish premieres of Gerard Grisey's Partiels and John De Simone’s Section 58. Paul's also led major performances of his own works, including the Magnificat with the RSAMD Chamber Chorus and Percussion Ensemble, Music to Accompany the Slow, Painful Death of with thingNY and the dance drama Miseke with the Academy Now! Players and the Reid Kerr College Contemporary Dancers. The successful performances of the latter led to its DVD and CD recording and distribution throughout Great Britain by Learning and Teaching Scotland.
Paul continues to be a devoted advocate of the music of underperformed experimentalists in classical music. In addition to directing the avant-garde new music band, thingNY, Paul curates the monthly Comformer Perposers Series, a forum for new solo works by experimental classical composers. Some of the musicians involved in this series include sound artist Yoni Niv, percussionist Lukas Ligeti, saxophonist Erin Rogers and guitarist Terrence McManus.
As a multi-instrumental and vocal improviser, Paul has lent his talents to collaborative projects in theatre and film. His own improvised compositions and performances were employed in Glasgow’s 2005 Shakespeare in the City Festival, and more recently, in the charming animated short by his brother Daniel, Hedgehug, which has been cited by numerous international film festivals. Paul's music and improvisations have been featured in the International Istanbul Theatre Festival and his debut vocal album, The Gentlemen, is available on Amie Street. Paul has collaborated with a diverse group of artists including composer/accordionist Pauline Oliveros, Co-Op Theatre East, the Panoply Performance Labs, flutist Andrea La Rose, clarinetist Thomas Piercy and bassist Andrew "Scrap" Livingston. His compositions have been performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Cuarteto Latinoamericano, the Royal Scottish Academy Chamber Chorus, ensemble loadbang, The Will Lang/Andrew Kozar duo, the Carnegie Mellon Concert Chorus, ai Ensemble and of course, thingNY. Paul collaborated with fellow thingNY composers to create the experimental opera, ADDDDDDDDD, which sold out it's first performance at the Tank in New York. His ongoing work with music improvisers, painters, directors and dancers continues to be the foundation of his own artistic creations.
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AND HERE ARE SOME SOUNDS:
MINI_004 FOR SOPRANO, CLARINET AND CELLO PERFORMERS
PERFORMED BY SOPRANO AMANDA DEBOER AND THE AI ENSEMBLE (ALEJANDRO ACIERTO AND ISABEL CASTELLVI)
EXPLETIVES FOR SOLO PIANO
PERFORMED BY PAUL PINTO
THE COURTING DANCE OF THE THUNDER GOD, FROM THE BALLET MISEKE
PERFORMED BY THE ACADEMY NOW! PLAYERS, CONDUCTED BY PAUL PINTO
MINI_002 FOR TRUMPET AND TROMBONE PERFORMERS
PERFORMED BY ANDREW KOZAR (TRUMPET) AND WILL LANG (TROMBONE)
PETER PEARS FROM THE GENTLEMEN
PERFORMED BY PAUL PINTO - AVAILABLE ON AMIE STREET
"HANDS... MY HANDS"
PERFORMED BY THE 2008 SOUNDEXCHANGE ENSEMBLE WITH PAULINE OLIVEROS
CHORD POEM NO. 3
PERFORMED BY PAUL PINTO