ABOUT
João Luís is a composer who crafts music for film, video games, and more. Originally from Madeira, Portugal, and now based in Northern Ireland.
He has collaborated with industry professionals, including three-time Emmy-nominated composer Sheldon Mirowitz, re-scoring a silent-era film performed live to a sold-out audience in Boston. He has also worked on multiple projects with filmmaker Nuno Serrão, including Madeira FIlm Experience which features V.O. by Eduardo Rêgo, a renowned Portuguese voice actor, but most notably The Third Attempt, which was selected for the Short Film Corner at Cannes Festival.
In the video game industry, João composed the majority of the music for Nocturne: Prelude, an RPG-rhythm game with a 97% positive rating on Steam. He currently continues his work with Pracy Studios on the full release of Nocturne, serving as the music composer, music implementor in Wwise, and Sound Design Supervisor.
His versatility is further showcased through his symphonic metal project, Lights of Nightmares, and contributions to the Vivaldi Metal Project's album EpiClassica, where he collaborated with Mistheria, the current keyboardist for Bruce Dickinson (singer of Iron Maiden), by arranging two tracks and writing one of the album's tracks.
João's adaptability allows him to craft unique musical identities for each project, whether shaping orchestral melodies, metal epics, or ambient soundscapes. His compositions aim to deepen emotion and narrative, trying to make the audience forget the outside world for a brief moment.
João enjoys communicating and sharing his experience about a world that can seem insular and about which not much is known by a wider audience.
He has been invited to provide talks and has participated as a panelist on several occasions regarding what goes on behind the scenes in film/game music and about the life of a professional music composer.
Below is a list of those places:
- Conservatório Escola das Artes da Madeira
- Escola da Apel, Madeira
- Westminster University, London
- RUA RED Arts Center, Dublin
- Dublin Conference Center, Dublin
- Games Academy NI