Rodrigo Cardoso (1997) was born in Cinfães (Portugal).
He finished his bachelor in Composition in 2018, at Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, studying with composers such as João Madureira, Luís Tinoco and António Pinho Vargas.
In 2015 he received the 1st Prize of the “Concurso de Composição séc. XXI” with
“Reflexos”, for solo bass clarinet, in 2018 he received the Golden Prize of the “Oskar Rieding Internacional Competition for Young Musicians” – Slovenia, and in 2019, obtained the 2nd Prize of the SPA / Antena 2 Composition Award.
In 2018, he received, from the “Prémio Jovens Musicos” and Antena 2 – RTP, an order to write the mandatory piece of the contest in the clarinet category.
Nowadays, he is taking his Master degree at Royal Northern College of Music, where he studies with Adam Gorb and David Horne.