Paul Pinto is a writer, composer, performer, opera-sermonizer, and multi-disciplinary dabbler who makes music, new media, micro-theatres and durational performance by himself and with his friends. Some of those friends include the collectives thingNY, Varispeed and LoveLoveLove. A few favorite projects include Patriots with Jeffrey Young, Robert Ashley's Perfect Lives with Varispeed, Peter Maxwell Davies' Eight Songs for a Mad King, and the cyclorama video installation Whiteness with Kameron Neal. He sang and danced on Broadway in Dave Malloy's Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, and wrote and performed in the electronic opera Thomas Paine in Violence starring Joan LaBarbara. Recent commissions and partnerships include HERE Arts, Prototype Festival, Colgate University, The Fisher Center, the Look + Listen Festival, American Opera Projects, Opera America, Culturehub, LaMaMa, Quince Ensemble, WNET All Arts, Media Art Xchange, The Rhythm Method, Yarn/Wire, Gelsey Bell and Kristin Marting.
8.7.26 ESTEBANICO ETUDE NO. 1 [world premiere]
Mantra Percussion premieres this theatrical etude for four players on a single marimba as part of a series of wordless images from an epic forthcoming opera about the titular 16th Century captive/conquistador.
Prototype237. Paterson.
9.4.26 THE APPROACH - EP. 1-3 [new album]
Quince Ensemble drops their latest recording on Gold Bolus, the first half hour of an episodic choral song cycle about love and the New York City subway system.
Digital download. GBR093.
9.18.26 RIVER SONGS ON THE HUDSON [world premiere]
Con Vivo Music presents the live premiere of the ritual/procession/protest/concert for our urban water systems, staged by Larissa Belcic. Featuring the Stop-Shopping Chorus, Zach Herchen, Steph Tames, Guy Dellecave, Brian McCorkle, Caitlin Cawley, Larissa Belcic and Alla Ilyasova.
Exchange Place. Jersey City.
10.10.26 RIVER SONGS ON THE HACKENSACK
A totally different sunset arrangement of the work for the deceptively placid Hackensack River up in Bergen County. We'll still be joined by the Stop Shopping Choir, but we'll also have an assemblage of kayaks from the Hackensack Riverkeeper joining us. NJ Transit, drive or paddle right up and into the performance.
7:30pm. Foschini Park. Hackensack.
10.12.26-10.16.26 ESTEBANICO WORKSHOP
Center for Southwest Studies
Texas State University, San Marcos
10.16.26 PROPOSITIONAL ATTITUDES / SCOREBOOK / OPEN SCORE(D)
wildUp presents an evening of open scores and artist-made propositions, promtps and possibilities grappling with the democratic ideals slipping away from us in 2026. My score for Codex1528 is published in this year's scorebook.
Human Resources. Los Angeles.
10.20.26 ESTEBANICO ETUDE (AMERICA: BOOK TWO) [world premiere]
A theatrical concerto (of a sort) for four percussionists on one marimba, electronics and chamber orchestra. Commissioned and performed by Recap Percussion and Contemporaneous. Also on the bill works by Lila Meretzky, Brendon Randall-Myers and Annie Blythe.
7:30pm. Roulette. Brooklyn.
01.19.27 ESTEBANICO: PART ONE
As part of the Under the Radar Festival.
The Kaufman Center. New York.
Mantra Percussion and thingNY will join me in performing music from the first hour of this five-hour epic.
Paul Pinto is a writer, composer, performer, opera-sermonizer, and multi-disciplinary dabbler who makes music, new media, micro-theatres and durational performance by himself and with his friends. Some of those friends include the collectives thingNY, Varispeed and LoveLoveLove. A few favorite projects include Patriots with Jeffrey Young, Robert Ashley's Perfect Lives with Varispeed, Peter Maxwell Davies' Eight Songs for a Mad King, and the cyclorama video installation Whiteness with Kameron Neal. He sang and danced on Broadway in Dave Malloy's Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, and wrote and performed in the electronic opera Thomas Paine in Violence starring Joan LaBarbara. Recent commissions and partnerships include HERE Arts, Prototype Festival, Colgate University, The Fisher Center, the Look + Listen Festival, American Opera Projects, Opera America, Culturehub, LaMaMa, Quince Ensemble, WNET All Arts, Media Art Xchange, The Rhythm Method, Yarn/Wire, Gelsey Bell and Kristin Marting.
