Paulo Assis is the coordinator and principal researcher of the European Research Council Starting Grant "Experimentation versus Interpretation: Exploring New Paths in Music Performance in the 21st Century" (2013-2018), a project based on the Orpheus Institut (Ghent, Belgium), which involves fifteen artists-researchers, including performers, composers, philosophers, choreographers and instrumental ensembles, proposing new ways of thinking and making music. Between 2009 and 2012 he was Senior Researcher at the Centre for the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music (CESEM) at Lisbon’s Universidade Nova where he coordinated the area of "interpretation-composition-Experimentation". Paulo Assis studied piano, musicology, composition and instrumental direction in Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Austria, giving regular courses and seminars in various European schools (Oslo, Gothenburg, Malmo, Stockholm, Helsinki, Toulouse, Madrid, Bern, Venice, Graz and Vienna). He is the author of two books and the editor of eight. His current musical projects include experimental practices applied to musical works such as Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, Schumann’s Kreisleriana, musical works of Nietzsche, reductions for piano from Schoenberg Orchestral pieces, and a double-orchestration ... sofferte where serene ... of Luigi Nono.
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