An underground musicals artist.
Paul Pinto is a composer, writer and multi-disciplinary performer. He founded the music collectives @thingNY and Varispeed with whom he creates immersive, durational and dramatic chamber and electronic music. His latest albums include Patriots with Jeffrey Young, Empty Words with Varispeed and @Robert Ashley's Improvement. As a vocalist, Paul works on a diverse array of new projects, including performing Peter Maxwell Davies’ Eight Songs for a Mad King, originating the role of “Balaga” in the Broadway musical @Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, and in his own work including the opera Thomas Paine in Violence with @Joan La Barbara, and the Resonant Bodies Festival commission of 15 Photos.
Paul Pinto plays experimental chamber music and avant-garde opera, blending classical instrumentation, electronic sound art, and extended vocal techniques.
Paul Pinto is a composer and performer from Queens, New York, deeply rooted in the city's downtown avant-garde scene.
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