Tiago Morgado (b. 1988) is a violist, improviser, composer and programmer. He studied with Jorge Alves, Gerhard Doderer, Tomás Henriques, Rui Dias, Gustavo Costa and Carlos Guedes, among others. He attended semminars, workshops, masterclasses and lectures with people such as Peter Evans, Fred Frith, Mark Dresser, Jason Hwang, William Parker, Trevor Wishart, Anette Vande Gorne, Andre Bartetzki, Douglas Kahn, Hans Timmermans, Pedro Rebelo, Mario Vieira de Carvalho, Ruy Vieira Neri and Miguel Azguime. He was associated with :papercutz in the final of their lylac promotion tour, playing in venues and festivals as sxsw, exit festival, plano b (opening for High Places), and the Islington Metal Works. XS Records, the netlabel of which he was the founder and curator from 2008 to 2010, has released his music as well as music of Karlheinz Essl, Agnes Heginger, Klaus Burger, Mathew Ostrowski, among others. He is currently starting a MA Degree at Institute of Sonology in Den Haag with the title “A personal approach to hyper-improvisation and hyper-composition, in the mediation between compositional and improvisatory practices in the human-machine interaction”. There he is taking courses with, among others, Kees Tazelaar, Richard Barrett, Joel Ryan, Frank Baldé, Paul Berg, Raviv Ganchrow and Paul Jeukendreup.