Patrício da Silva (1973, Portugal) received formal musical training at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (1992-95) where he studied piano with Jorge Moyano and composition with António Pinho Vargas (B.M. in piano, 1995). Following his move to the USA, da Silva pursued his composition studies as a recipient of the Betty Freeman Foundation Scholarship in Composition with Morton Subotnick, Stephen L. Mosko, and Mel Powell at the California Institute of the Arts (MFA, 1999). With support from the Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento (Portugal), he completed the Ph.D. program in composition at the University of California (2003), having studied composition with William Kraft, computer music with Curtis Roads, and algorithmic composition and music with Artificial Intelligence with David Cope. Further studies include work with Michael Gandolfi, John Harbison, and Sydney Hodkinson in the US, and seminars with Helmut Lachenman and Karlheinz Stockhausen, in Germany. His post-doctoral work as invited researcher at IRCAM in France was followed by a research grant by the Portuguese Foundation of Science and Technology in the UK. Awards include the International Barto Prize, the Gould Family Foundation Composers Award, the Ojai Festival Music for Tomorrow, the Ottto Eckstein Family Fellowship, the Susan and Ford Schumann Fellowship, and residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. His music has been recently heard at Tanglewood, Ojai Music Festival, Aspen, Ruhr Festival, Schleswig Holstein Music Festival, London Festival of American Music, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Zipper Hall, CREATE, Cistermúsica, International Music Festival Póvoa do Varzim, Yamaha's YASI, SCRIME, and Los Angeles Sonic Odyssey. His music has been played by notable soloists and ensembles including the California Ear-Unit, Lontano, Moscow Piano Quartet, New Century Players, New Fromm Players, Orquestra do Algarve, Shakespeare & Co., Stefan Asbury, Tzimon Barto, Gloria Cheng, Cesário Costa, Lorenz Gamma, David Gutkin, Michael Kudirka, Mark Menzies, Brian Pezzone, José Rodilla, Tara Schwab, Ming Tsu, Laurent Wagner, and Lei Weng. Since 2008, American pianist Tzimon Barto has toured with da Silva's piano music to enthusiastic audiences in Europe, including a special fund-raising concert for the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn to acquire the manuscript of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations. He's currently composer in residence with the Berkeley Symphony in California.