Luís Salgueiro is a com­pos­er of instru­men­tal, elec­tron­ic, and mixed music. His works — often char­ac­ter­ized by tim­bral and syn­tac­ti­cal exu­ber­ance — take inspi­ra­tion from and inter­act with con­cepts drawn from a wide range of fields such as lit­er­a­ture, phi­los­o­phy, com­put­er sci­ence, and cyber­net­ics. His most char­ac­ter­is­tic pieces often include open struc­tur­al ele­ments that high­light sub­jec­tive and inter­sub­jec­tive dis­am­bigua­tion and deci­sion-mak­ing in musi­cal per­for­mance. Recent com­mis­sions include pieces for the Sond-Ar’te Elec­tric Ensem­ble and ars ad hoc.

His music has been per­formed in Ger­many, the Unit­ed States, and across Portugal’s most impor­tant venues, includ­ing the Calouste Gul­benkian Foun­da­tion, Casa da Músi­ca’s Sala Sug­gia, the Main Hall of the Nation­al Con­ser­va­toire, Palá­cio da Aju­da, Teatro Aveirense, and Forum Luísa Todi. He has par­tic­i­pat­ed in the Euro­pean Net­work of Opera Acad­e­mies, devel­op­ing work with the Gul­benkian Foun­da­tion as well as with the The­at­er­akademie August Everd­ing, in coop­er­a­tion with JOiN at the Staat­sop­er Stuttgart.

Luís holds a Master’s degree in Com­po­si­tion from the Hochschule für Musik, The­ater und Medi­en Han­nover, where he stud­ied with Ming Tsao, Gor­don Williamson, and Joachim Heintz as a DAAD schol­ar. Fol­low­ing his stud­ies, he was grant­ed the Stipendi­um für inno­v­a­tive Musikkom­po­si­tio­nen by the Nieder­säch­sis­ches Min­is­teri­um für Wis­senschaft und Kul­tur. He com­plet­ed his Bach­e­lor’s at the Esco­la Supe­ri­or de Músi­ca de Lis­boa under the guid­ance of António Pin­ho Var­gas, Car­los Mare­cos, and Luís Tinoco. He sits on the board and serves as co-artis­tic direc­tor of MPMP Património Musi­cal Vivo, an inter­na­tion­al net­work of musi­cians ded­i­cat­ed to the dif­fu­sion and study of music from the West­ern Clas­si­cal tra­di­tion in Por­tuguese-speak­ing coun­tries. In addi­tion to his cre­ative work, he has devel­oped sig­nif­i­cant work in the fields of music engrav­ing and edit­ing, with a par­tic­u­lar empha­sis on con­tem­po­rary music, hav­ing con­tributed to dis­tin­guished Euro­pean pub­lish­ing hous­es such as Peters, Casa Ricor­di, and Durand – Sal­abert – Eschig.