Fátima Fonte is a Portuguese composer living in Portugal.

She studied Composition at ESMAE (Porto) and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam (Netherlands). She also studied Hindustani Music in Pune (India) with a scholarship from the Orient Foundation (Lisbon).

Her works have been performed at Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (Huddersfield, UK), Gaudeaumus Music Week (Utrecht), Festival 33.7 (Luxembourg), CCB (Lisbon), UNESCO House (Paris), Festival de Saint-Denis (Paris), Festival Música Viva 2023 (Lisbon), Casa da Música (Porto), Milton Court Theatre (London), among others.

She was a Young Associate Composer at Teatro Nacional de São Carlos (Lisbon) in its 2017-2018 season, and in 2021 she premiered her opera Concílio Celeste (libretto by Patrícia Portela) at FIO – Festival Informal de Ópera (Braga), which she co-organised as part of a collective. In 2022, she wrote the songs Tabaco and Voar na Diagonal for Cristina Branco, Bernardo Couto, and Ensemble Des Équilibres, which were performed at Casa da Música (Porto), and recorded for Cristina Branco’s album Fado em Movimento. She composed the soundtrack for Ana Morphose – a stop-motion animated short film by João Rodrigues, which premiered in 2023 and was screened at approximately 250 international film festivals. She has also written for Sound’Ar-te Electric Ensemble, Orquestra Portuguesa de Guitarras e Bandolins, Orquestra Gulbenkian, Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa, and Orquestra Filarmónica Portuguesa. 2025 saw the premier of her piece Passiflora by the Ensemble Contemporâneo da Póvoa de Varzim, and of Harpa de Ervas, an audio-visual installation designed in collaboration with videographer Adriana Romero for the opening of Museu Nacional da Música (Mafra).

She has recently completed a PhD in Composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London), with a focus on visible music.