João Pedro Viegas

João Pedro Viegas is a Portuguese clarinetist and improviser active in experimental and freely improvised music. His principal instruments include soprano and bass clarinets, whose contrasting registers allow him to move between detailed upper-register gestures, low resonances and the grain of air and reed.

His work is closely connected to collective performance and the use of extended instrumental techniques. In different ensembles he places the clarinets in dialogue with strings and electronics, treating changes in tone colour and density as elements of an unfolding, jointly shaped musical form.

On Creative Sources, João Pedro Viegas is credited on 2 releases, including stills (CS100), Old School New School No School (CS224).