Isabel Soveral

Isabel Soveral (born 1961) is a Portuguese composer of contemporary music. Life Isabel Soveral was born in 1961 in Porto, Portugal. She graduated from the where she studied with the composers Jorge Peixinho and Joly Braga Santos. In 1988, she attended the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she studied with Daria Semegen and Bulent Arel, having completed her master’s (1991) and PhD (1994) in Composition at that university. She was a Fellow of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Luso-American Foundation and Fulbright Program. She is part of an important group of Portuguese composers who appeared in the 1980s. Career Her music has been performed in Portugal, Spain, France, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Italy, Hungary, Switzerland, Poland, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Macao, South Korea, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba and the United States. She has had several works released on CD by the publishers Portugalsom and Strauss, EMI Classics, Nova Música, Capella, Deux-Elles, Numérica, ISCM-WMD, Miso Records, Plancton, IPCB and Musicamera, as well as scores published by Musicoteca, Fermata, Cecilia Honegger, IPCB and MIC. She has been Professor of Composition, Theory and Musical