Holding a PhD from the New England Conservatory in Boston, Andreia Pinto Correia is a composer of major prominence on the international contemporary music scene, particularly in the United States, where her works have been performed by the New York Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, commissioned and conducted by the renowned Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel.

Praised by the North American specialized press, her music has been described as an “aural fabric” by The New York Times and as “powerfully meditative” by The Boston Globe.

Andreia Pinto Correia has received commissions from leading institutions such as Washington Performing Arts and the Kennedy Center, Tanglewood and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the League of American Orchestras, the Presidency of the European Union, the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra (OSESP), the American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, the Fromm Foundation/Harvard University, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Toulmin Foundation, Chamber Music America, the National Ballet Company of Portugal, CGD Foundation – Culturgest, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, where on 12 October her Cello Concerto Reverdecer was premiered by the Gulbenkian Orchestra, conducted by Aziz Shokhakimov, with American cellist Jay Campbell as soloist.

Andreia Pinto Correia began her musical studies in Lisbon, at the Academy of Amateur Musicians and the Hot Clube de Portugal School, and completed both her Master’s and Doctoral degrees at the New England Conservatory in Boston, USA.

Distinguished with the Arts and Letters Award in Music by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, Andreia Pinto Correia served as curator of the contemporary music festival Fertile Crescent at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and as composer-in-residence and guest lecturer in Canberra, Australia, receiving the honorary title of Fellow of the Australian National University. Recently, she was a visiting associate professor at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.

She is currently curator, composer-in-residence, and co-director of the composition program at the Bowdoin International Music Festival, on the coast of Maine.

In 2024, highlights include the May premiere of a new symphonic work by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel at Walt Disney Concert Hall, and, in June, the premiere of her new Piano Quintet by the DSCH – Schostakovich Ensemble at the 2024 Capuchos Music Festival, in Almada.

The DSCH Composition Prize – Schostakovich Ensemble was created in 2019 by DSCH – Associação Musical and aims to honor a Portuguese composer for their work and career, with the goal of encouraging and promoting excellence in contemporary Portuguese art music. It is awarded by the DSCH – Schostakovich Ensemble, and the winners of previous editions were composers Luís Tinoco (2019) and Eurico Carrapatoso (2021).

Founded in 2006 by pianist and artistic director Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro, the DSCH – Schostakovich Ensemble is regarded as one of the most significant chamber music ensembles on the international scene. Its discography includes albums dedicated to Shostakovich and Beethoven, released and distributed by Paraty/Harmonia Mundi PIAS, which have received the highest distinctions from both national and international specialized critics.

The DSCH – Schostakovich Ensemble Composition Prize carries a monetary value of €6,000 and is supported by the Directorate-General for the Arts of the Ministry of Culture.