PERFORMING | COMPOSING

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PERFORMING | COMPOSING

with pangeia instrumentos

Victor Gama (Angola) is a composer, performer, designer of contemporary musical instruments as well as an electronics engineer. Gama has collaborated with the Kronos Quartet who premiered his piece "Rio Cunene" at Carnegie Hall in March 2010. He was commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to write "Vela6911", his most recent piece premiered at Harris Theater in Chicago in March 2012. His piece "Rio Cubango", commissioned by the Prince Claus Fund and the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts has been premiered in November 2011 at the Concertgebow in Amsterdam and his exhibition Instrmnts, curated by Yinka Shonibare was staged at London's Royal Opera House, Fundacion Carlos de Aberes in Madrid, National Anthropology Museum in Luanda and many other venues around the world.
Several of his music works have been recorded on CD including Pangeia Instrumentos for AphexTwin's Rephlex Records and the most recent album Naloga released on PangeiArt.

Performing Sol(t)o at Grahamstown National Arts Festival in South Africa, part of the Makakata Exchange project produced by the Resonace Bazar in 2009.

With Kronos Quartet at Carnegie Hall New York, premiering Rio Cunene in 2010.

THE FOLK SONGS TRIO - with William Parker and Guillermo E. Brown at Culturgest, Lisbon.

DINO - performing with dino and electronic loop station at Centro Cultural de Belém in 2010.

With Naná Vasconcelos, Kituxi and Inô at the Awesome Africa Festival, Durban 2004.

Victor Gama and Pedro Carneiro at the Gulbenkian Foundation in June 2011, Next Future Festival of contemporary art and culture, performing on the GigantikArpz with ten 75 meter piano wire strings across the lake.