by cruz | May 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
The second episode of “Piper Staccato – A short interview”, this time with Marieke Van Ransbeeck Piper staccato, a podcast produced by Gonçalo Cruz, is aimed as an international pro-bono project creating cultural bridges. On this episode, this...
by cruz | Apr 20, 2020 | News, video
The 2020 FIL – Festival Interceltique Lorient, appears not to have been cancelled… At least so far. Every year a different world culture is celebrated. This year’s edition, the 50th, is under the theme “Bretagne” (Brittany) and will take place from the 7th-16th of...
by cruz | Apr 2, 2020 | News, video
Finnd’it founder, Gonçalo Cruz, presented his doctoral research “Forgotten Bagpipes – The Re-design of the Säkkipilli in Finland” at the Musiikkitalo (Helsinki Music Center) on Tuesday 10th March. He introduced the audience to our project – “The...
by cruz | Mar 15, 2020 | video
Piper staccato, a podcast produced by Gonçalo Cruz, is aimed as an international pro-bono project creating cultural bridges. On this episode, Callum Armstrong, a piper from England, lets us know how he became in love with bagpipes and tells us all about his current...
by cruz | Nov 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
FULL PROGRAM Latvian folk-group “Suitu dūdenieki”gathering Latvian traditional pipers in the Suiti region (2018 and 2019) Available seats are limited! PLEASE inform us you will be attending by filling this FORM NOTE: If you already play some bagpipe, please become...
by cruz | Sep 26, 2019 | Iconography, Uncategorized
Patrik Weckman, a recent member of our growing Finnish piper’s network, has brought to our attention an interesting artwork by the painter Juho Rissanen (1873-1950). In picture 1 – “Kolme soittajaa” (Three players) – the 1928 sketch intended as a study for...
Gonçalo was born in Porto – Portugal.
He has been a Researcher & Maker of “Iberian Gaita” Bagpipes for the past 20 years.
He is a music composer and guest musician on live and recorded performances.
Gonçalo is also a designer & Educator, having earned a M.A. in Architecture and a tutor’s pedagogical aptitude certificate.
Gonçalo lives in Helsinki - Finland and is currently a Music PhD student at the Sibelius Academy researching the lost Finnish Säkkipilli