Portuguese clarinetist Carlos Cordeiro is stalwart in creating and broadcasting new music, collaborating with composers and different disciplines, improvising, studying, and performing on the different instruments of the clarinet family. An orchestral and ensemble player, as well as a soloist, Carlos has toured Spain, China, Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, Russia, and the United States as a former member of loadbang and TAK ensemble. He played as part of groups such as Ensemble scope, Vertixe Sonora, New York New Music Ensemble, Metropolis Ensemble, SWR Orchester, and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. The conductors and coaches he has worked with include Pierre Boulez, Matthias Pintscher, Ernesto Molinari, Marcus Weiss, Marco Blaauw, Steven Schick, Magnus Lindberg, Anssi Kartunen, Petr Kotik, Bruno Ferrandis, Chen Halevi, Larry Combs, Alain Damiens, Phillipe Couper, Eduardo Leandro, Ingo Metzmacher, Friederike Scheunchen, among others.

Carlos works freelance in Germany, both as a soloist, chamber musician and a member of Ensemble Garage and Contemporary Insights. Carlos is a scholarship holder of the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia and holds a master’s degree in contemporary performance from the Manhattan School of Music, a master’s degree from Rice University, and a bachelor’s degree from ESMAE (Portugal). As a PhD student at the Freiburg School of Music in collaboration with the Haute École des Arts du Rhin and the Université de Strasbourg, he explores New Complexity and the practice of performance.