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Victor Gama is an Angolan-born composer currently residing between Luanda, Lisbon, and Bogotá. His work spans diverse areas, including music, image, field recording, audiovisual installation, and contemporary musical instrument design. Gama has received commissions from notable ensembles and institutions such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Kronos Performing Arts Association, the National Museums of Scotland, the Tenement Museum in New York, the Prince Claus Fonds, the Amsterdam Fonds for the Arts, the Royal Opera House of London, and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. He holds a degree in Electronics Engineering and a Master's in Organology and Music Technology from the Sir John Cass College of Art, Architecture and Design at London Metropolitan University. Gama has been a guest artist at the Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics and the MIT Center for Arts Science and Technology. His notable works include "Rio Cunene," which premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York with a European premiere at the Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon. The multimedia piece "Vela 6911," commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra/MusicNOW and supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, premiered at the Harris Theater in Chicago and was later presented at the Dinkelspiel Auditorium in Stanford and the Haus der Kultur der Welt in Berlin. Gama's multimedia opera "3 thousand RIVERS," commissioned by the Prince Claus Fund and the Gulbenkian Foundation, premiered in Lisbon in 2016 and in

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