Rui Paz Rui Paz was born in 1949 in the city of Lisbon were he attended the National Conservatorium and the Law School. Still as a student he participated in contemporary music concerts and in other actions against Salazar's dictatorial government and the colonial war. As a bursary of the Calouste Gulbenkian foundation he continued his studies at the Nacional Superior Musical Conservatory of Paris. In Germany he concludes the masters degree in musical sciences with a thesis about the "Instrumentation and Dramatic Context in Georg Friederich Händel Operas" and he attended the algorithmic composition course at the "Robert Schuman Conservatórium". He teached at the National Conservatorium of Lisbon and he returned to Germany in 1984 were he`s been dedicating to the interdisciplinar investigation in the fields of music, plastic arts, theater and linguistic. Nowadays he is a teacher at the Folkwang Musikschule in Essen were he directs the "Acoustic Theater". Between his compositions, performances and instalations the most meaningfull can be detached: "Szenische Skizzen", "Libera me", "Anabasis, Catabasis, Circulatio", "Rimidipo/Rimidi 4", "InterMIDIo", "Trois Piéces de Concert", "Concerto Visual", ..., wich in international festivals of music and plastic arts have been very well received by both the audience and the critics.