Inés
Badalo

Inés Badalo (1989, Olivenza) is a Spanish-Portuguese guitarist and composer. She finished her guitar studies with Antonio Jorge Gonçalves and Evaristo Valentí, and composition with Luís Tinoco at the Superior Music School of Lisbon. At the same time she complements her training by attending master classes by the composers Franck Yeznikian, Christopher Bochmann and José Manuel López López. She is currently studying for a PhD in Music and Musicology, Composition, with Pedro Amaral at the University of Évora. She has received commissions from several official and private institutions as well as the National Centre of Musical Diffusion (CNDM), Antena 2, Mixtur Festival, Philharmonic Society of Badajoz, Arte no Tempo, Ensems Festival, DGArtes, Densité 93, National Institute of Performing Arts and Music INAEM, among others. Inés Badalo is the recipient of scholarships from the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Goulbenkian Foundation. Her music is performed by renowned ensembles, soloists and orchestras, including Gulbenkian Orchestra, Plural Ensemble, Hand Werk Ensemble, WDR Sinfonieorchester, Ensemble vocal Soli-Tutti, Ensemble Sonido Extremo, Neopercusión, Mikrokosmos Ensemble, Extremadura Symphony Orchestra, Grupo de Música Contemporânea de Lisboa, Kuraia Ensemble, OCAZ Grupo Enigma, in Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Croatia, Portugal, Italy, United Kingdom, Brazil, Mexico, Japan, Germany and France.