António Pinho Vargas graduated in History by the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto, Pinho Vargas completed a Piano Degree from the Porto Conservatory and a Master's degree in Composition by the Music Conservatory of Rotterdam, with a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. António Pinho Vargas is a professor at the School of Music in Lisbon, since 1991. From 1994 to 2000, he was a consultant for the Serralves Foundation and from 1996 to 1998 for Centro Cultural de Belém. As a classical composer Pinho Vargas wrote three operas and several pieces, including works for the Arditti String Quartet, Ensemble Galliard, the Scottish Royal Academy Brass, The Northern Sinfonia, among others. As a jazz composer he has seven albums edited, the first, Other Places, edited in 1983. In 2002 he published the book About Music (Afrontamento,) and in 2008 gave five conferences at Culturgest. Pinho Vargas completed a PhD in 2010 at the University of Coimbra under the guidance of Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos (C.E.S. Coimbra University) and Prof. Max Paddison (University of Durham) with the title Music and Power: for a sociology of the absence of Portuguese music in the European context published in 2011 (CES/ Almedina). Currently he is a Fellow Researcher at the Researcher Study Center Social of the University of Coimbra.
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