André Codeço (b. 1981) is a composer, conductor, researcher, and pianist, with more than 40 premiered works. His main research focuses on the Sonic Domain Theory, which crosses the fields of Music, Mathematics, and Philosophy. He holds a Ph.D. and a Master's in Music (Creative Processes), both from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). During his Ph.D., he was a Fulbright fellow researcher at Louisiana State University (USA). He also holds bachelor's degrees in Composition, Theology, Music Education, and Mathematics, and trained as a pianist and conductor.
He is currently Adjunct Professor at the Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP), Brazil.
He has performed as a composer, pianist, and conductor in Brazil and abroad (the United States, Argentina, Portugal, and Germany, among others). He conducted the String Orchestra of Itaperuna (2014–2021), the Federal Fluminense Institute Choir (2021–2023), and the Musica Nova Camerata (2017–2019).
André has shaped his compositional language around the Sonic Domain Theory, the core of his original compositional thinking. The theory comprises a set of analytical and compositional tools grounded in original concepts of time and space in music, supported by a philosophical and mathematical foundation. His main research interests lie at the intersection of Composition/Musical Analysis, Mathematics, and Philosophy.
He also has an interest in the Philosophy of Religion. In this field, he published a book in Portuguese, Entre o aqui e o Além: brevíssimas considerações acerca da temporalidade divina (available in the Books section).
André is the host of Compocast, a podcast dedicated to composition (in Portuguese).
He is a member of the Brazilian Association of Music Theory and Analysis (TeMA), the Society for Music Theory (SMT), the Society of Composers, Inc. (SCI), and the Baixo Clero Composers Collective.
For the full Curriculum Vitae in English, click here.
For the full Curriculum Lattes in Portuguese, click here.
MAIN RESIDENCIES, PRIZES AND HONORABLE MENTIONS:
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Resident composer at abeceda.institute (Slovenia), 2025/2026
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Ruth Crawford Seeger Prize, 2nd place (USA), 2024
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Selected work, IX SIMA – International Symposium of Music in the Amazon (Brazil), 2023
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Selected work, Panorama of Current Brazilian Music (Brazil), 2020
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Fulbright Scholarship, Louisiana State University (USA), 2018–2019
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3rd place, UFRJ National Composition Contest (Brazil), 2016
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Selected work, New Music on the Bayou Summer Festival (USA), 2016
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Selected work, Imani Winds Festival (USA), 2016
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Selected works, Panorama of Current Brazilian Music (Brazil), 2014, 2016
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Finalist, Goiás Philharmonic Orchestra Composition Contest OPUS 21 (Brazil), 2015
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Selected works, ENCUN – National Meeting of Composers (Brazil), 2012, 2015
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Ibermúsicas Scholarship, artistic residency at the National University of Córdoba (Argentina), 2014
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Honorable mention, VI International Composition Contest of Póvoa de Varzim (Portugal), 2011
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2nd place, National Composition Contest of the Villa-Lobos Institute (Brazil), 2010
