Armando Santiago

Who is Armando Santiago?

Armando Santiago is a Canadian composer, conductor, music educator, and university administrator of Portuguese birth. A member of the Canadian League of Composers, his compositional output includes a considerable amount of orchestral works and chamber works. Some of his more well known compositions are Suite for bassoon and piano, Soneto de Camões for baritone and string orchestra, Sinfonia, Sonata, Simetrias, Prismes, Heterogenia-Movimento per 32 solisti, Requies for male choir and 25 instruments, Undecassônia and Trame for orchestra, and Musique pour quatre. In 1962 he composed the film score for Ernesto de Sousa's Dom Roberto. From 1974 to 1978 he was the director of the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Trois-Rivières and from 1978–1985 he was the director of the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Québec.