Jorge Ramos is a Portuguese multi-award-winning composer, sound artist, and researcher based in London. He has written solo, chamber, choral, symphony, mixed, electroacoustic, live-electronics, film, stage, installations, and advertisement music for festivals, orchestras, ensembles, and soloists across Asia, North America, Central America, South America, and Europe, while also collaborating with other artists and/or institutions on artistic contributions and computer music design.
Commissioners and partners for Dr. Ramos’ work extend beyond the concert hall to major international soloists and bodies such as Arte no Tempo, Banda Sinfónica Portuguesa, Braga Media Arts, Braga ’27, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Casa da Animação, Cat’s Cradle Collective, Frederic Cardoso, gnration, Kotsanas Museum of Ancient Greek Technology, London Philharmonic Orchestra, ORA Singers, Orquestra Clássica do Centro, RE:FLUX ’16 Festival, Ricardo Pires, RTP/Antena 2, Sónia Oliveira, The Hermes Experiment, UNDERSCORE Film Festival.
He is the recipient of some prominent fellowships, grants, and prizes awarded by the Academia de Flauta de Verão, Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, Festival Internacional de Órgão de Braga, Fernando Otero, Fundação da Juventude, Fundação Gestão dos Direitos dos Artistas, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Help Musicians, iMelody Music Club, Leões de Portugal, Miso Music Portugal, Orquestra Clássica do Centro, Banda Sinfónica Portuguesa, Royal College of Music London, Royal Music Association, RTP/Antena 2, Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores, Tomaribando, The ACTOR Project, The National Flute Association and Portuguese Republic — Ministry of Culture.
Jorge has had roles in various esteemed residencies, programs, mentorships, and composer schemes, including the ENOA Composers Residency (2017) with the Gulbenkian Orchestra and Conductor Nuno Coelho, the Jovens Compositores programme (2018-19) at Estúdios Victor Córdon under the guidance of Luís Tinoco and Victor Hugo Pontes, and Compota 2019 by Sentidos Ilimitados, mentored by Paula Pinto at Biblioteca de Marvila. More recently, he joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra's Young Composers Programme (2024/25), mentored by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and conductor Tania León, and participated in the ORA Singers Graduate Composers Showcase (2024) under Suzi Digby OBE, where his choral work Munda Me premiered. He also took part in the TalentLAB '24 program at Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg with YUM!, mentored by Alexandra Lacroix, and was a mentee in the ACTOR Mentorship Program (2021–2023), working with renowned mentors such as Ichiro Fujinaga and Pulitzer Prize winner Roger Reynolds.
He has a particular interest in perception and psychoacoustics. His current musical approach explores the intersection of technology and orchestration/timbral blend, with a focus on intuitive electronic-informed orchestration, instrumental synthesis, computer-assisted orchestration, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. More recently, his work embraces an interdisciplinary hybrid aesthetic that juxtaposes these advanced methods with vintage textures, noir atmospheres, and artistic influences drawn from both past and present. Deeply inspired by the eclectic energy of SOHO-like environments, he finds creative fuel in the collision of eras and the sensory overstimulation of urban life — a curated chaos that mirrors the hybridity of his sonic language. Dr. Ramos aims to push the boundaries of sonic experience and craft new immersive, multi-sensory auditory environments.
Jorge Ramos holds degrees from Conservatório de Música Calouste Gulbenkian de Braga, Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, and a Doctorate in Music Composition granted by the prestigious Royal College of Music London. He currently serves as a collaborator at The ACTOR Project — Orchestration practice in the 21st century (CAN) and CESEM ESML (PT). As an artist for the European Network for Opera Academies, he is the London Philharmonic Orchestra Young Composer for 2024/2025.
His upcoming projects include SOHO, a chamber orchestra work premiering with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also working on An Aria for the Mallard, a collaborative installation with visual artist Rosana Antolí and soprano Claire Rocha Santos, commissioned by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In addition, he is composing Music for a Greek Museum, a new sound work for the Kotsanas Museum of Ancient Greek Technology (2025–2026), commissioned by the museum as part of the EUROMUSE Project. The work is designed to sonically unify the museum’s exhibitions and will be part of the permanent collection, accompanied by an album release and online concerts.
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