Discipline: Music Composition

Patricio da Silva

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Goleta, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2008

Patrício da Silva received formal musical training at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa where he studied piano and composition followed by composition studies in the U.S. at CalArts (M.F.A.), and the University of California (Ph.D). His composition teachers include António Pinho Vargas, Mel Powel, Stephen L. Mosko, Morton Subotnick, William Kraft, David Cope, Curtis Roads, Michael Gandolfi, John Harbison, and Sydney Hodkinson. Following his graduate studies, da Silva engaged in post-doctoral work in algorithmic composition at Ircam (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique / Musique) in Paris and during the following year in the U.K. His awards include the Second Biennial International Barto Prize, the Gould Family Foundation Composers Award, and other prestigious awards from the Ojai Festival Music for Tomorrow, Foundation of Science and Technology, Fundação Luso-Americana, Betty Freeman Foundation, American Music Center, Composers Forum, and Meet the Composer. Da Silva has received the Otto Eckstein, Norton Stevens, and the Susan and Ford Schumann fellowships as well as residencies at MacDowell and the Atlantic Center for the Arts.

Studios

Chapman

Patricio da Silva worked in the Chapman studio.

Chapman Studio was funded by Mrs. Alice Woodrough Chapman in memory of her husband, composer George Alexander Chapman. Symmetrically massed, the building is stuccoed on the exterior with a natural, unpainted cement. Its unusual half-timbered ornament consists of slender, knotty spruce poles painted a dark green color. A central, peak-roofed entrance porch appears on the north side…

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