JOÃO BALOUTA
João Balouta is a composer, specialized in modern piano music creation with more than 50 songs, including 2 albums released worldwide, through all major streaming platforms, since 2017. Concerts in Portugal and Spain.
What's THE STORY?
When João was 17 years old, he just discovered his talent for music, when suddenly, he listened the famous Amelie's movie soundtrack. That was the click, when João decided to learn that song on piano, finishing it in few days, without ever playing piano before. After that, he developed his technical skills learning other piano songs, from classical to neoclassical composers. The most interesting part of it is that, when João was learning those songs, he just couldn't stop creating new variations on them. That was the beginning of his journey, mainly as a piano composer.
DETAILED BIO
João Balouta (Vila Real, Portugal, 24 December 1988) is a multi-instrumentist Classical Crossover composer, producer and music teacher.
Soon he showed interest in learning music. When he was 6 years old, he accompanied his father to guitar lessons in a music school, in Vila Real and learned to play recorder.
In 2005, when he was 17, João decided to learn piano on Youtube and start to compose some piano songs. In that year, he studied in Regional Conservatory of Music in Vila Real and later in Conservatory of Music and Dance, in Bragança (Portugal) on piano course.
In 2011, João Balouta completed his Bachelor in Music, in Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, in Portugal. João also studied Music, for a semester, in University of Hradec Kralové, in Czech Republic.
His curiosity about music and other instruments took him to learn and explore drums, guitar, singing, berimbau, melódica and other percussion instruments.
In 2017, João released his first album called [Morphosis] for Piano and Ensemble and began his Morphosis Tour in Portugal, in Teatro de Vila Real (his Hometown) and Spain, in Sala Eutherpe, Léon.
In 2020, João released [Aurora Borealis] album and held concerts in Portugal, in AUDIR and Teatro de Bragança.
Actually, João has composed more than 50 classical crossover pieces, reaching more than 500k streams, in 90 countries all over the world, on Spotify, Apple Music and Youtube.
Recently, is working with Inri Classic and Andante Piano labels.
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