Ângela da Ponte (b. 1984, Azores) is a Portuguese composer whose work explores sound as a field of deep listening, where instrumental, electroacoustic and mixed-media practices are brought into dialogue through finely shaped perceptual and dramaturgical processes. Since 2016 her work has increasingly engaged with Portuguese traditional music and instrumental practices, developing a distinctive contemporary language in which memory, materiality and resonance are continuously re-imagined. She is a pioneer in integrating the Azorean viola da terra into contemporary composition, extending its sonic, structural and expressive potential within new musical contexts.

She holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham (UK) and is Professor at the Vila Real Conservatoire and the Superior School of Music and Performing Arts, as well as a researcher at CESEM – Centre for the Study of Music. Her artistic formation includes studies with João Madureira, Dimitris Andrikopoulos, Carlos Guedes and Marina Pikoul, and later with Jonty Harrison and Michael Zev Gordon, alongside collaborations and workshops with ensembles such as BEAST, BCMG, EXAUDI and HERMES, and composers including Magnus Lindberg, Emmanuel Nunes, Dai Fujikura and Pierluigi Billone.

Her music has been commissioned and performed internationally by leading soloists, ensembles and orchestras including the Remix Ensemble, Smirnov Quartet (Basel Music Academy), Drumming GP, BEAST, BLAST (Bogotá Los Andes Sound Theater), the Gulbenkian Orchestra, the Orchestre National d’Île-de-France, Oregon Symphony, Vertixe Sonora and Ensemble New Babylon, as well as numerous specialist performers. Her works have been presented at major contemporary music festivals and platforms across Europe and the Americas, including Visiones Sonoras (Mexico), Audiokineza (Poland), Kulturfabrik – 33,7 Festival (Luxembourg), Música Viva Festival (Portugal) and BEAST FEaST (UK).

In 2021 she represented Portugal at the International Rostrum of Composers, and in 2023 her music was selected for the ISCM World Music Days in South Africa. Further distinctions include the Ibermúsicas Prize for Composition and Premiere (2022), the First Prize at the Álvaro García de Zúñiga International Lied Composition Competition, and her appointment as Young Composer in Residence at Casa da Música (2011). Her music is published by Scherzo Editions, Arpejo Editora, MIC and Tot Per L’Aire, with recordings released by Scherzo Editions and Miso Records.