MICRO-BIO

• Gil Teixeira is a prolific artist and educator that sees Sound and Community as the unifying core of his many practices. A native of Portugal, Gil grew up studying classical guitar. Alongside his classical music studies, Gil started the post-rock ba...More

  Gil Teixeira is a prolific artist and educator that sees Sound and Community as the unifying core of his many practices. A native of Portugal, Gil grew up studying classical guitar. Alongside his classical music studies, Gil started the post-rock band La La La Ressonance, a group known for their bold cross-artistic experiments. During the early part of his career in Portugal, Gil was also employed as a creative project leader by the Education Service of Porto's Casa da Musica. Through this, he worked in a wide range of community settings, leading participants through artistic processes to empower their voices while creating original performances. During these five years, Gil worked with homeless/recovering addicts, in prisons, schools, and underserved neighborhoods. Here he found his true passion. In 2012, Gil decided to take his passion a step further, and moved to London to pursue a Masters in Music Leadership at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where he developed a keen interest in the exploration of technology in collaborative music-making contexts and started working on CEEMI, a virtual band that anyone can join regardless of their training. Gil has performed, taught guitar, led workshops and artistic projects all over Europe and the US. He's currently based both in Pittsburgh PA (USA) and Braga (Portugal).

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EXPERIENCE

• Duquesne University

  • German Language Professor
  • Modern Languages
  • 2016 to Present

• Pittsburgh Music Academy

  • Classical Guitar Teacher
  • Guitar

• Casa da Musica do Porto

  • Creative Project Leader
  • Servico Educativo

EDUCATION

• Escola Superior de Musica e das Artes do Espectaculo do Porto

  • Classical Guitar Performance

• Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London

  • Masters in Music Leadership

• Universidade Aberta

  • Postgrad specialization in Classical Guitar Pedagogy

• Goethe Institut do Porto

  • KDS Diplom

• Faculdade de Letras do Porto

  • Masters in Philosophy

Links

• CEEMI - Collaborative Experiential Electronic Musical Instrument
• Artistic and educational work

Resume

• Gil_20Teixeira_20-_20CV.pdf

  Added March 05, 2020