Gonçalo Cruz
Researcher | Designer | Musician | Educator | Maker
Musician
Music composer and guest musician on live and recorded performances
Maker
Maker of bagpipes & Woodwinds
Researcher
Doctoral Researcher in Music
The Redesign of Bagpipes
My workshops & Seminars
Over the last years, Gonçalo has worked with several educational institutions carrying out pedagogical, cultural & motivational seminars and workshops.
If you’re looking for a guest speaker or would like to hear more about his seminars, please send an email.
Project & Design
Tools that help you think.
Be it the remodeling of your own apartment, producing your new record album, drafting your scientific paper or designing your live performance.
In Design process, it’s all about getting something accomplished.
Well-being
Learn to be. . .
From Music to the Visual Arts, from Meditation to Martial arts, its all about transcending technique.
Thinking > Knowing > Being
Musician
by design…
I’ve been connected to the arts since as far back as I can remember. I’ve never imagined myself doing anything other than creating “stuff”. How Music composition became an intrinsic part of “it all”, is something that took me a while to make sense of… However, since childhood having travel from Drawing to Painting, to Architecture, and ending up Making the very same musical instruments I play and compose with, has been an amazing ride. The more time passes the more everything seems to fall into place…
Latest News
Gonçalo writes for several media outlets, including the youtube channel GaitaMakerTV, or the Finndit.org initiative.
He also publishes articles and papers, that you can read here.
Workshops 2023-2024 soon!
Please come back soon! We will have more news.
My Guest lecture at MDW
I recently had the privilege of shedding light on the rich, yet often overlooked, history of bagpipes in the Baltic Sea region. This journey took place in the heart of Vienna, at an event event organised by the Institute for Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology in...
2nd Edition of the Bagpipe Network Meeting
We have successfully organised the 2nd Edition of the Bagpipe Network Meeting, at the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki. Thank you for the wonderful support of my research Supervisor Kristiina Ilmonen (prof. Folk Music) and to MuTri Doctoral school Head, Saijaleena Rantanen....
Address
Helsinki – Finland
Call
+358 45 251 87 27
Info@GoncaloCruz.com