Henrique Portovedo

Henrique Portovedo is a professor at the University of Aveiro and coordinator of the Creation, Performance and Artistic Research Group at INET-md. He holds a PhD in the field of Science and Technology of the Arts (Performance and Computer Music) from the Portuguese Catholic University. Portovedo has also held various research positions, including a Fulbright Researcher at the University of Santa Barbara California, an Erasmus Researcher at the University of Edinburgh, and a visiting researcher at both the ZKM | Karlsruhe and McGill University Montreal. In recognition of his work, Portovedo has been awarded several prizes, including from the Portuguese National Centre of Culture and the British Society for Education, Music and Psychology. As a performer and saxophonist, Portovedo has found his place in contemporary music by working with composers as Heiner Goebbels, Clarence Barlow, Curtis Roads, Phill Niblock, Michael Edwards, Peter Ablinger, Richard Barret, Paulo Ferreira Lopes, Miguel Azguime, Sara Carvalho, João Pedro Oliveira among others.