by cruz | Apr 15, 2021 | News, Researcher
It’s is my pleasure to announce that our working team, at the Folk Flute Academy Finland, has been awarded a grant by the Alfred Kordelin Foundation. This time around it was Mimmi Laaksonen that successfully led our team, in securing the full support of this important...
by cruz | Apr 11, 2021 | Researcher, Video
Quarenta Podcast. 40 minutes chat around Music & Finland. Pia Siirala studied at the Sibelius Academy, the Budapest Liszt Academy and at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. She is concertmaster of Ensemble XXI, founded by conductor Lygia O’Riordan, with...
by cruz | Jan 3, 2021 | Researcher, Video
“The Quarenta Podcast” means for 40 minutes of chat around Music & Finland On this episode we talked to Adriano Adewale, a doctoral candidate researching on the performance of the Brazilian “Berimbau”, at the Sibelius Academy –...
by cruz | Dec 11, 2020 | Maker, News, Researcher
It is my absolute pleasure to inform that finally, my bagpipe making workshop is up and running!!! I must say it took too long to give you this news! I feel like I have been moving around my machines since April 2019. Moving all the way from Portugal was challenging,...
by cruz | Dec 4, 2020 | News, Researcher
I am happy to announce that after being awarded by the Sibelius Academy foundation, with a “Research expenses” grant, and by the Sibelius Academy with a research position for the next 3 years, I have now been selected as one of the 2021 Kone foundation...
by cruz | Oct 16, 2020 | News, Researcher
I’m thrilled to share my recent experience at the joint doctoral Study Days between the Royal Academy of Music, London (RAM) and Sibelius Academy (SibA). This event, hosted by our academy, was a unique opportunity to share and learn about artistic and...
Gonçalo Cruz
is a Researcher, Musician, Educator & Maker of Bagpipes & Woodwinds.
He holds a Masters in Architecture, and is currently a Doctoral candidate at the Sibelius Academy - “Forgotten Bagpipes - The redesign of the Säkkipilli in Finland”. His research interests are in the disciplines of Music, Ethnomusicology, Organology, as well as Art & Design, History & Archeology, with a special interest in the subjects of Instrument building, Tuning and Temperament.
As an artist, Gonçalo has been working as a music composer and guest musician on live and recorded performances, and is keen in developing the concept of “Music as Design”