Biography

Filipe Raposo began his piano studies at the National Conservatory of Lisbon. He holds a master's degree in Jazz Piano Performance from the Royal College of Music (Stockholm) and was a scholarship holder at the Royal Music Academy of Stockholm. He holds a degree in Composition from the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa.

As a pianist, composer and orchestrator, he has collaborated with numerous international orchestras, performing in important venues such as Sala de São Paulo, Bozar, Ópera de Rouen, Fundação Gulbenkian, CCB.

He has collaborated in concerts and on recordings with some of the leading names in Portuguese music: Amélia Muge, Sérgio Godinho, José Mário Branco, Jorge Palma, Rita Maria and Vitorino.

He also works regularly as a composer for film and theatre. He composed the original music for the documentary "Um Corpo que Dança - Ballet Gulbenkian 1965-2005", by Marco Martins. In 2022, he produced, in partnership with Antonio Jorge Gonçalves, the documentary "O Nascimento da Arte". In the same year he wrote the opera "As Cortes de Júpiter" (Gil Vicente), directed by Ricardo Neves-Neves. In 2025, he won an award at the Malaga Film Festival for his original composition for the film "Lo Que Queda de Ti" by Gala Gracia.

Since 2004, he has worked with the Cinemateca Portuguesa as a resident pianist for silent film accompaniment. At the invitation of the Cinemateca Portuguesa, he composed and recorded the soundtrack for the DVD editions of Portuguese silent films: "Lisboa, Crónica Anedótica" by Leitão de Barros, having won an Honorable Mention at the Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna, "O Táxi nº 9297" by Reinaldo Ferreira, "Frei Bonifácio" and "Barbanegra" by Georges Pallu, and "Nazaré, Praia de Pescadores" by Leitão de Barros.

Under his own name, he has released the following albums:

• First Falls (2011)

• A Hundred Silent Ways (2013)

• Inquiétude (2015)

• Rita Maria & Filipe Raposo Live in Oslo (2018)

• ØCRE vol.1 (2019)

• Art of Song: When Baroque Meets Jazz (2020)

• Øbsidiana vol.2 (2022)

• Art of Song: Between Sacred and Profane (2023)

• Variações do Brancø vol.3 (2025)

- IMDb mini biography by: Filipe Raposo