PAUL PINTO.
Composer, writer, performer of multi-disciplinary music, opera-theater, installation.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY.
Paul Pinto creates multi-disciplinary music, opera-theater, installation and performance, sometimes with his longtime friends thingNY and Varispeed. Some highlights include Meredith Monk's Indra's Net, Patriots with Jeff Young, Gelsey Bell's mɔɹnɪŋ, Peter Maxwell Davies’ Eight Songs for a Mad King, the cyclorama video installation Whiteness with Kameron Neal, an ongoing re-arrangement of Robert Ashley’s Perfect Lives, and his first opera Thomas Paine in Violence. He sang and danced on Broadway in Dave Malloy's Great Comet of 1812. Recent and upcoming projects include Water Music (an album and soundwalk on Gold Bolus Recordings), String Quartet No. 3 ‘Octet’ (Rhythm Method and Bergamot Quartets), The All-Father (a new take on Wagner’s Ring Cycle), and the operatic monodrama Mano a Mano, directed by Kristin Marting. A child of immigrants, born and raised in Richmond Hill, Queens, Paul now proudly calls Jersey City his home, because that's where his wife, child, and vegetable garden are.
ARTIST INTERVIEW.
Interview released on February 2, 2026.
"Good art stands for something and needs to have an urgency... It’s not really a discussion... It’s the emotions surrounding the discussion. The emotions are spilled out and laid naked in art. The emotions are digested and pondered by people in the room. Then, we can go back to the everyday volunteerism, donations, good citizenship, and standing up for good people and good policies, with maybe a renewed vigor..."
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One of the most
EXCEPTIONAL COMPOSERS
with a sensibility that can handle
DEADLY SERIOUSNESS & WICKED HUMOR.
THE WIRE
GALLERY.
Discover photos and videos from Paul's work.
CREDITS: WHITENESS, by Paul Pinto and Kameron Neal, image by Kameron Neal; headshot by Amanda Pinto; Mano a Mano, by Paul Pinto, directed by Kristin Marting, photo courtesy of the artist; THE APPROACH, by Paul Pinto, performed by Liz Pearse, Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, Carrie Henneman Shaw, and Kayleigh Butcher, performed at the Kaufmann Center; Mano a Mano Graphic, by Paul Pinto; RIVER SONGS, album cover by Paul Pinto; THOMAS PAINE IN VIOLENCE, by Paul Pinto, performed by Joan La Barbara, Nick Choksi, Ryan Krause, and Paul Pinto, Culturemart, photo by Benjamin Heller; OCTET, by Paul Pinto, video by Paul Pinto and Zach Herchen.