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Miguel Leiria Pereira

Double Bassist

About Me

VISIT MY BLOGGER PAGE: www.miguelleiria.blogspot.comE-MAIL CONTACT: [email protected]BIOGRAPHY: Miguel Leiria Pereira was born in Lisbon in 1971, and started his double bass studies at the Lisbon Conservatory with professors António Ferreira and João Panta Nunes. He did undergraduate double bass studies at Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra (ANSO) with Professor Bernard Madrennes and finished his bachelor degree at the Lisbon Superior School of Music (ESML) under orientation of Professor Yuri Axenov. With a scholarship from the company Grupo Alcântara he took double bass lessons with Professor Gary Karr at his Karrkamp at the University of Victoria (Canada), and with a scholarship from the Portuguese Culture Ministry studied during two years and a half at West Texas A & M University (USA-Texas), and Butler University (USA-Indiana) with Professor David Murray. In 1991 He was awarded first prize at the “Carpe Diem" national music festival (Portugal), in 1994 he was warded first prize in the Portuguese national radio's Young Musicians Prize Competition (Portugal), and in 1998 he was awarded the second prize at the Butler University Concerto Contest (Indiana-USA). As orchestra musician he collaborated with the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, Lisbon Sinfonieta, Cascais and Oeiras Chamber Orchestra, Amarillo Symphony (Texas), and Butler Symphony (Indiana). As he keeps double bass teaching positions at the Leiria Regional Conservatory (EMOL), the Setúbal Regional Conservatory, Lisbon Music Academy, and Alcobaça Music Academy, Miguel Leiria Pereira performance areas are the double bass solo repertoire, chamber music, orchestra, improvised and other forms of creative music. Since 2005 he became part of the Granular association for experimental art.
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN MORE MUSIC. MUSIC PROJECTS: DUO (Cello & Bass) EL FAD (Guitar, Violin, Contrabass & Drums) SONGBOOK (Vocals, Guitar/Portuguese Guitar & Bass) BARBACUTE (Recorder, Clarinet, Guitar/Cavaquinho, Cello & Bass) KASUTERA (Guitar & Bass) ETSUKO KIMURA & MLP (Spoken Word & Bass)SONGBOOK 2007 ACOUSTIC LIVE AT FABULA URBIS BOOKSTORE KASUTERA DUO REHEARSAL OF “BRAZIL” (WATANABE TEPPE) "ALFAMA" KASUTERA DUO'S NEW PIECE BY WATANABE TEPPE
EL FAD "EL FAD" BY JOSÉ PEIXOTO
"MUSICA DE CAMARA" VIDEO & MUSIC/SOUND PROJECT BY FITO CONESA & MIGUEL LEIRIA PEREIRA (2008)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/27/2006
Influences: MY MUSIC DOESN'T SOUND LIKE THESE ARTISTS, BUT THEY ARE SOME OF THE ONES I MOST ADMIRE.
COMPOSERS: Bach, Mozart, Schumann, Mahler, Debussy, Ravel, Satie, Messiaen, Schoenberg, Hindemith, Weill, Jobim, Bacharach...
DOUBLE BASSISTS: Serge Koussevitzky, Gary Karr (My favorite Double Bass Soloist), David Murray, Diana Gannett, Renaud Garcia-Fons, Edgar Meyer, Ray Brown, Gary Peacock, Carlos Bica...
JAZZ: Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole Trio, Jaco Pastorius, Joe Zawinul, Weather Report, Keith Jarrett, Brad Meldhau, Bill Frisell, John Pizzarelli...
SONGWRITERS: Johnny Cash, Laura Nyro, Donovan, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, James Taylor, David Crosby, Joni Mitchell, Tom Waits, Rickie Lee Jones, Victoria Williams, Lori Carson, Rebecca Martin, Sean Lennon, Sara K, Joanna Newsom...
I LOVE JAPANESE MUSIC, FROM TRADITIONAL, EXPERIMENTAL, ANIME OST, TO POP: Kodo, Elizabeth Falconer, Sakamoto Ryuichi, Yano Akiko, Hosono Haruomi, Onuki Taeko, Yoshida Minako, Ringo Shiina/Tokyo Jihen, Kanno Yoko, Sakamoto Maaya, Arai Akino, Chocolat & Akito, Kahimi Karie, Shimada Aiko, Nikaidoh Kazumi, Hi-Posi, Pizzicato Five, Original Love, Lamp (My favorite band!), Instant Cytron, Clammbon, Advantage Lucy, Bossa 51, Sen-no-Kotori, Dahlia, Naomi & Goro, Piana, Quinka with a Yawn...
OTHER ARTS: Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Murakami Haruki, Hokusai Katsushika, Vincent van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky, Hayao Miyazaki, Kurosawa Akira, Kitano Takeshi, Kim Ki-duk...
MORE INFLUENCES: The blue color, Nature with all its sounds and colors, Contrabass solo tuning (A, E, B, F Sharp)!, Beauty, Love, Peace, Respect between human beings, Traveling, Japanese culture, Yara, My family, My friends, My bass students, My bass teachers, and All the ones who gave me some of their knowledge...and I almost forgot! I love koi! so, my 3 koi and all the other in Japan also inspire me a lot!
THINGS I DISLIKE: I just try to don’t lose much time with those; if possible I just ignore them…life is short...
Sounds Like: I really don't know...but who cares... I just feel so much beauty around myself, but...why I can’t reach it?... Do these words help to describe how I sound like, or what I’m searching for?… .
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Etsuko Kimura & MLP Tomorrow at Serralves em Festa 2008

Check here for more information:  http://www.serralvesemfesta.com/gca/index.php?id=213&con tinuas Read about the project here: http://miguelleiria.blogspot.com/2006/04/etsuko-kimura-spoke ...
Posted by Miguel Leiria Pereira on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:48:00 PST

Purezento from Saeko and Yutaka!

Tomo-dachi Saeko and Yutaka sent me their CD. It arrived this morning from Japan, and it was so good to receive this special present, from faraway just in terms of distance... http://viewmorepics.mysp...
Posted by Miguel Leiria Pereira on Thu, 15 May 2008 03:46:00 PST

My birthday present from Yara...

Today is my day, so I was born 37 yrs ago... strange, it's not long ago that I use to feel in the 20's, and now I'm aproaching the 40's. Whatever is, I just want to leave in this world the best of me ...
Posted by Miguel Leiria Pereira on Fri, 09 May 2008 04:14:00 PST

"Musica de Camara" Video & Music/Sound Project with Fito Conesa

"Musica de Camera" is a video and music/sound project starting a collaboration with the artist Fito Coneso. Fito the video author named this piece playing around with two main ideas that ...
Posted by Miguel Leiria Pereira on Sun, 04 May 2008 07:56:00 PST

Saeccoro

I'm starting new music collaboration with two friends in Japan called Saeko and Yutaka. They have a guitar and vocals duo called Saeccoro. I love their music! I think one of these days we will find a ...
Posted by Miguel Leiria Pereira on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:40:00 PST

Kimura Etsuko & MLP at "Serralves em Festa 2008"

This week I had fantastic news about a contest the in which I was participating with my friend Kimura Etsuko. The contest was "Serralves em Festa 2008", and from 120 candidates we were one of the 12 p...
Posted by Miguel Leiria Pereira on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:20:00 PST

Fotografias de Etsuko Kimura - Exposição

Exposição"IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD: STREETS FROM NEW YORK"Fotografias de Etsuko Kimura 24 Janeiro> 16 Abril, 2008Fnac Almada @ C.C. Almada FórumTodos os dias: 10:00-24:00 entrada livrehttp://www.fnac.pt/im...
Posted by Miguel Leiria Pereira on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:41:00 PST

EL FAD - José Peixoto, Carlos Zíngaro, Vicky & Miguel Leiria Pereira

http://miguelleiria.blogspot.com/2007/12/el-fad.html
Posted by Miguel Leiria Pereira on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 05:39:00 PST

Remembering Joe Zawinul and Jaco Pastorius

I found today, almost one month later that one of the great musicians of ever is not anymore among us. Joe Zawinul died last September 11, so I'm posting here these words to remember him, but more can...
Posted by Miguel Leiria Pereira on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 05:08:00 PST

Read Kimura Etsuko’s words about our pieces.

Go here and read. You also can listen them on Etsuko's myspace player....
Posted by Miguel Leiria Pereira on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:00:00 PST