Qualified teachers who support each student throughout their artistic journey.
Meet the teachers who guide and inspire the students of the Regional Conservatory of Setúbal.
The Teaching Staff of the Regional Conservatory of Setúbal (CRS) is made up of highly qualified professionals in the fields of music and dance, dedicated to providing outstanding artistic education. Their experience, pedagogical sensitivity, and passion for the arts ensure that students receive solid, creative teaching adapted to each stage of their artistic development.
On this page, you can get to know the teachers and trainers who are part of our team, responsible for guiding and inspiring students across a range of disciplines — from instrumental and vocal teaching to dance and artistic expression. Their daily commitment contributes to the cultural and artistic growth of the Setúbal community.
In the strings section, the CRS teaching team provides both technical and artistic training, developing skilled and creative musicians.
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A natural of Setúbal, she began her musical studies at the age of 10 in the articulated programme at the Conservatório Regional de Setúbal, in the violin class of Professor Inês Vieira, completing the 8th grade in 2013. In the same year, she entered the University of Évora, where she studied between 2013 and 2018, obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in Violin Performance and a Master’s degree in Music Education under the supervision of Professor Doctor Liviu Scripcaru.
Throughout her academic path, she took part in several orchestral training programmes with leading figures from both the national and international music scene, as well as masterclasses and workshops in violin and chamber music with musicians and ensembles from Portugal and across Europe.
She was a permanent member of the Youth Symphony Orchestra in Lisbon from 2012 to 2016, performing as a second violinist.
Professionally, she has collaborated with Portuguese orchestras and ensembles such as the Lisbon Film Orchestra, Orquestra Clássica do Sul, Orquestra de Câmara Portuguesa, Orquestra Filarmonia das Beiras, and Orquestra sem Fronteiras, among others.
She currently teaches violin and ensemble classes at the Conservatório Regional de Setúbal and in the Orquestra Geração Special Project of the Conservatório Nacional, while also taking an active role in the coordination of masterclasses, workshops, and orchestral training programmes. In the field of pedagogy, she collaborates with organisations such as ESTA Portugal, APEM and the Associação Guilhermina Suggia.
As a freelance violinist, she founded the DuoJARN project with violinist Joana Amorim and collaborates with various artists and musical associations. In her performing career, she has appeared in some of the country’s leading venues, including the MEO Arena, Coliseu dos Recreios, Casa da Música, the Gulbenkian Grand Auditorium, Teatro S. Luiz and Teatro Nacional de S. Carlos, among others.
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Born in Covilhã, Mariana Morais began her musical studies at the Professional School of Arts of Covilhã in the class of Professor Gonçalo Ruivo. She continued her training at the School of Music and Performing Arts, where she completed a degree in Viola, followed by a Master’s degree in Music Teaching, studying with Professors Jorge Alves and Rute Azevedo.
She attended masterclasses with Ana Bela Chaves, Máté Szűcs, Marc Tooten, Jorge Alves, Susanne Van Els, António Pereira, and John Throne.
She has performed with several national and international orchestras, including the Classical Orchestra of the Polytechnic of Porto, The World Orchestra (Alicante), ADDA Sinfónica, Casa da Música Symphony Orchestra, Remix Ensemble, and Orchestra Without Borders.
She has previously taught at the Music Academy of Viatodos, FUSA – Music Academy, Orquestra Músicos D’Ouro, PALLCO – Performing Arts School and Conservatory, and Escola Dr. Manuel Fernandes in Abrantes.
She is a member of ESTA Portugal – European Strings Teachers Association Portugal.
She currently teaches Viola and Orchestra at the Regional Conservatory of Setúbal and at Orquestra Geração.
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With experience and pedagogical sensitivity, the singing teacher inspires students to explore their vocal potential.
The mezzo-soprano Inês Constantino, from Azeitão, completed her degree in Singing at the University of Aveiro in 2016, under the guidance of Professor Isabel Alcobia.
Between 2016 and 2018, she continued her studies at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, completing a Master’s degree in Opera with top marks in the singing class of Professor Michèle Crider, as well as a Master’s degree in Lied and Oratorio, in the class of Professor Pauliina Tukiainen and in the singing class of Professor Mario Díaz. In 2018, she was awarded the Gianna Szel Scholarship in Salzburg.
She performs regularly as a soloist in several countries, including Portugal, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, and France. In Salzburg, she performed leading roles such as Filipyevna in Eugene Onegin, Zita in Gianni Schicchi, Ruggiero in Alcina, Giacinta in La Finta Semplice, the Maid in Reigen, La Voix in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, and Annio in La Clemenza di Tito.
In Portugal, she has distinguished herself in roles such as Dorabella in Così fan tutte (Coliseu do Porto), Mulher in O Tempo Somos Nós by F. Fontes, Nuno da Rocha and Pedro Lima (Calouste Gulbenkian Auditorium, Lisbon), Carolina in 1911 – A Conspiração da Igualdade by A. Victorino d’Almeida (Fórum Luísa Todi, Setúbal, and Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães), the Third Lady in Exposição Temporária: uma pintura de Chagall and The Magic Flute by W. A. Mozart, and the Fox in Rachel Portman’s opera The Little Prince at Teatro das Figuras, Faro.
Recently, she performed as a soloist at the National Theatre of São Carlos, interpreting Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s Faust, and joined the cast of the opera L’enfant et les sortilèges, in the roles of Cat, Shepherd, and Squirrel at the Óbidos Opera Festival.
Throughout her artistic path, she has worked with Alessandro Misciasci, Renata Scotto, András Schiff, Clarry Bartha, Gaiva Bandzinaitė, Dorothea Wirtz, Claire Vangelisti, Susan Waters, João Lourenço, Liliana Bizineche, Nuno Dias, Francisco Sassetti, Wolfgang Holzmair, Cesário Costa, Gernot Sahler, Hansjörg Albrecht, Jorge Salgueiro, António Vassalo, János Czifra, and José Eduardo Gomes, as well as with stage directors and actors such as António Durães, Alexander von Pfeil, Claudio Hochman, Carlos Antunes, Natalie Forester, Jorge Balça, Jean-Paul Boucchieri, and Carlos Nicolau Antunes.
Guitar lessons provide both technical and artistic training, supported by teachers specialised in different styles.
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John Fletcher is an eclectic guitarist and a teacher of Classical and Electric Guitar.
He holds a Master’s degree in Guitar Pedagogy and a Bachelor’s degree in Guitar Performance. Throughout his musical journey, he studied classical guitar and jazz with several distinguished musicians, including Lopes e Silva, Piñero Nagy, António Gonçalves, Dejan Ivanovich, Gunnar Spjuth, Göran Söllscher, Mário Delgado, Pedro Madaleno and Claus Nymark, among others.
A versatile performer, John Fletcher has appeared in public both as a soloist on classical guitar and Altgitarr (11-string alto guitar), as well as in a wide range of ensembles and musical styles. His repertoire spans from Medieval and Renaissance music, performed on replicas of period instruments, to Jazz, Rock and Gospel on electric guitar. He has a particular affinity for the Classical and Romantic guitar repertoire, as well as for Baroque music transcribed for Altgitarr. For more information, visit www.johnfletcher.info.
José Carvalho was born in Alcácer do Sal and began his musical studies at the Luísa Tody Academy of Music and Fine Arts in Setúbal. He later continued his training at the Lisbon Conservatory of Music, where he studied Guitar with Professor José Diniz and Chamber Music with Maestro Fernando Eldoro. He also studied Analysis and Composition Techniques with Carlos Caires and Maria de Lurdes Martins.
Throughout his career, he has attended advanced training courses and masterclasses in Portugal and abroad with renowned guitarists such as David Russell, Carlos Bonell, Abel Carlevaro, Robert Brightmore, Carlos Barbosa-Lima, Robert Aussel and Alberto Ponce. He also pursued private study for two years with the Croatian guitarist Dejan Ivanović.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in Music Education Teaching from the Higher Schools of Education of Lisbon and Setúbal, respectively. He is currently a Music Education teacher at Escola D. João I and has been a Guitar teacher at the Conservatório Regional de Setúbal since its opening in 1988.
His recording work includes solo albums dedicated to Renaissance, Baroque, Classical and Romantic repertoire for plucked viola/classical guitar, as well as an album of original works for voice and classical guitar, to which he also contributed as composer and arranger.
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The study of piano at CRS combines solid technique, interpretation, and musical expression, supporting each student throughout their artistic journey.
Eduardo Jordão is a pianist and composer, with a career marked by intense concert and creative activity. In Portugal, both on the mainland and on the islands, he has performed in numerous concert halls, building a solid path within the musical scene. Internationally, he has already performed in countries such as Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Luxembourg, and China, bringing his music to diverse audiences.
Since 2007, he has maintained a partnership with pianist João Vasco in the duo 20Fingers, a project that goes beyond the boundaries of the classical recital, crossing genres and musical styles. The duo made its debut at the “mEUsic partnership” Festival in Cork, Ireland, and has since performed in several countries, receiving enthusiastic reviews. The recital “From Mozart to Chico Buarque” reflects the duo’s identity, combining tradition and innovation while exploring rhythm, dance, and humour.
As a composer, Eduardo has explored different musical languages, from solo piano music to compositions for theatre. He has released several albums and singles, including Piano de Papel, Retrato a Cores — an album of original songs — and Canções sem Palavras, in collaboration with cellist Samuel Santos, bringing together music for piano and cello by the Portuguese composer Eurico Carrapatoso. Through the Cultural Association of the Regional Conservatory of Setúbal, he created the Setúbal Piano Competition, promoting emerging talent, and has collaborated with artists from various fields, including the Setúbal Opera Company, in a path that reflects a contemporary and versatile approach.
Since 2002, he has been a piano teacher at the Regional Conservatory of Setúbal, where he also serves as coordinator of the piano department.
She studied at the Academia dos Amadores de Música and at the Music School of the National Conservatory, where she completed the secondary music course in the piano class of Professor António Toscano.
She holds a pre-Bologna degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, and a pre-Bologna degree in Music, in the teaching strand with a specialisation in piano, from the University of Évora, where she studied piano in the class of Professor Elisabeth Allen.
She is currently a piano teacher at the Regional Conservatory of Setúbal, where she has been teaching since 1996. She was Pedagogical Director from 2011 to 2020 and coordinator of the piano department from 2006 to 2021.
She has also been Pedagogical Director and piano teacher at the Academia Musical dos Amigos das Crianças in Lisbon since 2022.
Alongside her teaching activity, she has developed various initiatives in the cultural field, having presented the Antena 2 morning programme O Despertar dos Músicos, and since 2021 she has been part of the board of A7M – Associação do Festival de Música de Setúbal.
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Nuno Batoca began his piano studies at the age of 8 with Maria Fernanda Macedo and later became a private student of Professor Campos Coelho. He entered the National Conservatory, where he studied with Paulo Santiago and António Toscano (piano) and Fernando Eldoro (chamber music), completing the course with high distinction.
He continued his higher studies at the Lisbon School of Music, studying with Tânia Achot and Olga Prats, and later at the University of Évora, where he completed a Bachelor’s degree (teaching strand) in the classes of Miguel Borges Coelho and Elizabeth Allen (piano), and Liliana Bizineche (chamber music).
At the same time, he has pursued a teaching career in institutions such as the Almada Professional Music School, the Regional Conservatory of Almada, the Regional Conservatory of Setúbal (since 1995), and the Music School of the National Conservatory (from 2005 to 2019), as a Piano and Chamber Music teacher.
He attended several masterclasses, either as a participant or listener, with renowned pianists such as Pedro Burmester, Sequeira Costa, and Claude Frank, and won 1st place (regional) in the Portuguese Musical Youth Competition in 1988, held in Linda-a-Velha, and 3rd Prize in the Portuguese Musical Youth Competition in 1995 in the Chamber Music category.
He was Pedagogical Director of the Regional Conservatory of Setúbal in 2003 and Coordinator of the Piano Department of the same institution from 2004 to 2006.
From 2012 to 2016, he was a jury member and organiser of the piano section of the “Cidade de Almada International Music Competition”, a jury member at the “3rd Oeiras International Piano Competition”, and a jury member at the “Sardoal International Piano Competition” (Junior category) in 2025.
He was also a trainer in the masterclass at Colégio José Álvaro Vidal (Fundação CEBI) in Alverca and a cooperating supervisor in a Master’s degree in Music Teaching at Instituto Piaget.
In the field of musicology, in 2024 he joined a team with the aim of carrying out the documentary description of 9,000 musical manuscripts from the General Collection of Musical Manuscripts of the National Library of Portugal. In 2026, he is carrying out a similar task, but with around twice as many manuscripts.
He has performed, either as a soloist or as part of chamber groups, in venues such as the Museum of São Roque, the National Museum of Ancient Art, Teatro Taborda, the Auditorium of Fórum Romeu Correia, the Noble Hall of Setúbal City Hall, the Auditorium of the University of Évora, Teatro José Lúcio da Silva, Club Setubalense, Casa de Fataúnços (Vouzela), Convento dos Capuchos (Almada), and the Lagos Cultural Centre, among others.
With more than 30 years of teaching experience, he has had several students awarded in competitions such as the “Cidade de Almada International Music Competition”, the “Oeiras International Piano Competition”, the “Ourém National Competition”, the “Czerny Competition” (organised by the National Conservatory), the “Marília Rocha Competition”, the “National Piano Competition of the Music Conservatory of Coimbra”, the “National Piano Competition – Colégio de São Teotónio”, and the “Sardoal International Piano Competition”, among others, and has also prepared several students for admission to Higher Education.
She holds a Degree and a Master’s in Music Teaching, with a final average of 16 out of 20, from Instituto Piaget.
In 2005, she taught music classes at the “Entre Linhas” after-school centre in Quinta do Conde.
In 2007/2008, she taught music classes at the primary schools of Monte da Caparica and at Monte da Caparica Basic School 2/3.
In 2008/2009, she taught piano at Lugar da Música school and at Associação Musical Clave de Sol.
From 2009 to 2021, she taught piano at the Almada Music Academy.
Since 2009, she has been teaching piano at the Regional Conservatory of Setúbal.
Born in 1978, in Castelo Branco, she began her musical training at the Regional Conservatory of that city, where she studied Piano with Professor Leonor Cardoso.
In 1996, she was admitted to the Lisbon School of Music, where she completed the Piano Course under the guidance of Professors Miguel Henriques (Piano) and Olga Prats (Chamber Music).
She attended advanced courses with Professors Edson Elias, Pedro Burmester, Richard McMahon, Tânia Achot, Jorge Moyano, Dimitri Bashkirov, and Maria Helena de Sá e Costa.
In 1993, she took part in the Piano Competition of the Regional Conservatory of Castelo Branco and the Music School of Santarém, obtaining 1st Prize ex aequo at 2nd Grade level, and in the Portuguese Musical Youth Piano Competition, where she was classified in 3rd place, Level B.
In 2003, she began attending the Master’s programme in Musical Arts – Piano at Universidade Nova de Lisboa under the guidance of Professor Miguel Henriques.
At present, she teaches Piano at the Regional Conservatory of Setúbal, while also maintaining a career as a concert pianist, having performed in various locations such as Almada (Convento dos Capuchos and Solar dos Zagallos), Cascais (Museum of Music), Castelo Branco, Évora, Lagos, Lisbon (Centro Cultural de Belém), Queluz (National Palace), and Setúbal (Fórum Municipal Luísa Todi). As part of her concert career, she has also made recordings for Antena 2.
The teachers in the Music for Babies section stimulate musical awareness, rhythm, and expression through playful and creative activities.
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Sandra de Oliveira, transverse flautist and music teacher, is responsible for the MBBC Música para Bebés e Crianças project – Histórias de EnCantar para famílias felizes.
With nearly 20 years of experience in the field of Music Education and Musical Expression, she has worked mainly with primary schools, nurseries, daycare centres, and kindergartens, as well as in activities with adults with intellectual disabilities and elderly people. However, it was in early childhood that she found her main focus and motivation.
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A number of experienced instructors guide students in learning wind and percussion instruments, fostering confidence and creativity.
He began his musical studies at the age of 12, influenced by his grandfather, who also played the trumpet. In that same year, he enrolled in the music school of Sociedade Democrática Timbre Seixalense.
Later, he entered the Professional School of Arts of Almada, where he studied with Professors António Quitalo, Mário Carolino, and Rui Borba.
In 2002, he joined the Professional School of Arts of Beira Interior, where he studied with Professors Paulo Carmo, Sérgio Charrinho, and Fernando Jorge Ribeiro, and completed his secondary education there.
Later, in 2007, he entered the National Academy of Orchestra, where he completed his degree in Orchestral Performance (Trumpet).
At the same time, he had the opportunity to further his training by attending masterclasses with several leading figures of the instrument, including Jorge Almeida, Allen Vizzutti, Mathias Höfs, Michael Sachs, Paul Merkelo, Fabio Brum, Bo Nilsson, Craig Morris, Jeroen Berwaerts, Vicente Olmos, among others.
He has worked on several musical projects across different genres, including “5’T Brass” (Brass Quintet), Thebellsbrass Ensemble (Brass Group), “Manifestum Brass Band”, “Supernova”, and “Back to Disco”, among others.
As a trumpet teacher, he has been teaching since 2007, having worked in several educational institutions. He taught at the Music Academy of Alcobaça for five years, at the Nossa Senhora do Cabo Music School in Linda-a-Velha, at Silva Marques Regional Conservatory in Alhandra, and is currently a trumpet teacher at the Regional Conservatory of Setúbal and at the Santarém Music Conservatory.
He also collaborates in the project “A Outra Banda” (a music-in-school project where he is the brass teacher), run by SFUAP (Cova da Piedade).
He also currently teaches Music Theory and Trumpet at Sociedade Filarmónica Timbre Seixalense.
Since December 2018, he has held a Master’s degree in Music Teaching from the Lisbon School of Music, where he studied under Professor David Burt.
Daniela Alexandra de Matos Ruivo was born on 25 November 1994 in Almada and began her musical studies at the age of 9 at Sociedade Filarmónica União Arrentelense.
In 2005, she was admitted to the Music Conservatory of Lisbon, where she completed her 1st grade with Professor Rita Nunes.
She later moved to the Regional Conservatory of Setúbal, where she completed the 7th grade in the supplementary instrument course between 2006 and 2012. In September 2012, she entered the free course of the Metropolitan Professional School Conservatory, until the end of that academic year, with Professor Hélder Madureira.
She won 3rd Prize in the International Wind Instruments Competition “Terras de La Salette”, in the junior category, in Oliveira de Azeméis in 2013.
In 2016, she completed her Bachelor’s degree in Performance, specialising in Saxophone, at the Department of Music of the School of Arts of the University of Évora, under the guidance of Professor José Massarrão. She attended saxophone masterclasses with Jean-Marie Londeix (France), Arno Bornkamp (Amsterdam), Alfonso Padilla (Spain), Alberto Roque (Portugal), Antonio Felipe Belijar (Spain), and Tomás Jerez Munera (Spain).
She collaborated with several ensembles such as the wind orchestra of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Band Workshops of Sociedade Filarmónica Palmelense “Loureiros”, the Wind Orchestra of the National Wind Orchestra Workshop – Portel, the Symphony Orchestra of the 9th Covilhã Symphonic Band Workshop, Cruz de Pau Light Orchestra, Metropolitan Saxophone Ensemble, National Wind Orchestra, University of Évora Wind Orchestra, and the Classical Orchestra of the University of Évora.
In 2024, she completed a Master’s degree in Music Teaching at the Department of Music of the School of Arts of the University of Évora, under the guidance of Professor Mário Marques.
She teaches at the Regional Conservatory of Setúbal and at Escola das Artes do Alentejo Litoral.
Miguel Oliveira began his musical studies at the age of 10, in Palmela, at Sociedade Filarmónica Humanitária.
In 2000, he entered the Music School of Sociedade Filarmónica Humanitária, in the class of Professor Ângelo Caleira, continuing his studies in 2006 at the Regional Conservatory of Palmela, where he completed the 3rd grade under the guidance of Professor João Letras.
In 2008, he entered the Metropolitan Professional School, where he studied with Professor Armando Martins, completing the wind and percussion instrumentalist course with a final mark of 16 out of 20.
In the 2011/2012 academic year, he attended the Preparatory Course at the Metropolitan Conservatory of Music, in the class of Professor Abel Pereira.
He completed his degree in Orchestral Performance, specialising in French Horn, at the National Academy of Orchestra, in the class of Professor Nuno Vaz, in 2016, with a final mark of 16 out of 20.
In 2021, he completed a Master’s degree in Music Teaching at the Lisbon School of Music, obtaining a final classification of 16 out of 20.
He has participated in several masterclasses and advanced training courses with Hermann Baumann, Froydis Ree Wekre, Radovan Vlatkovic, Ab Koster, Abel Pereira, Jonathan Lipton, Stefan Dohr, Fergus McWilliam, Javier Bonnet, J. Bernardo Silva, Paulo Guerreiro, Nuno Vaz, Carsten Duffin, Gabriele Amarú, Luís Vieira, Ricardo Matosinhos, Filipe Abreu, Jonathan Luxton, Andrew Sutton, Ângelo Caleira, Armando Martins, and the “Onix Brass – Brass Quintet”.
He has performed publicly with the following groups: the Metropolitan Professional School Wind Orchestra, Metropolitan Academic Orchestra, Brass Ensemble Metropolitana, Metropolitan Wind Orchestra, Youth Symphony Orchestra, Lisbon Film Orchestra, Algarve Classical Orchestra, Cascais and Oeiras Chamber Orchestra, Portuguese Chamber Orchestra, Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, and Teatro O Bando, collaborating regularly with other ensembles.
Among the conductors and soloists with whom he has worked are Michael Zilm, Emilio Pomarico, Jean-Sebastian Béreau, Jean-Marc Burfin, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Kazushi Ono, Christopher Bochmann, Sebastian Twinkle, Joana Carneiro, Pedro Neves, Pedro Carneiro, Jorge Salgueiro, Reinaldo Guerreiro, Alberto Roque, José Eduardo Gomes, among others.
He has also worked with national and international soloists such as António Rosado, Bertrand Chamayou, Chloë Hanslip, Filipe Quaresma, Pedro Gomes, Nuno Silva, Filipe Alves, Afonso Fesch, Patrycja Gabrel, Raquel Camarinha, Teresa Pereira, and the saxophone quartet “ArtemSax”.
He was a permanent member of the Youth Symphony Orchestra between 2010 and 2015, and between 2011 and 2014 he was a scholarship holder of the “EDP Foundation / Youth Symphony Orchestra”, serving as principal player. In the 2014/2015 academic year, he was also a scholarship holder of “SLEM – Youth Symphony Orchestra”. With the Youth Symphony Orchestra, he performed as a soloist, playing Mozart’s Horn Concertos No. 2 and No. 3.
In 2015, he was selected as a member of “The World Orchestra”.
In 2016, he was selected for the “Gulbenkian Orchestra Workshop” (EGO).
Pedro Carvalho has collaborated throughout his career with several orchestras, including the Sinfonieta de Lisboa, the Metropolitan Orchestra, the Cascais and Oeiras Chamber Orchestra, the Lisbon Film Orchestra, and the Gulbenkian Orchestra. He has also collaborated in various musical theatre productions and several other projects.
He has taught at the Dona Maria Campina Regional Conservatory of the Algarve, the Regional Conservatory of Baixo Alentejo, the Cascais Music Conservatory, and the Helen Keller Centre.
He pursued his artistic studies at the Lisbon School of Music, the Music School of the National Conservatory of Lisbon, the Hot Clube de Portugal Jazz School, and the Piaget Institute of Almada. He holds a postgraduate qualification in School Administration and is currently attending the Master’s degree in Management and School Administration at ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon.
Committed to specialised artistic education and to promoting access to the arts, he has been supporting and developing, through the Regional Conservatory of Setúbal, pedagogical and artistic projects focused on training in the areas of music, dance, and theatre. This work includes the creation and development of educational events and projects, as well as the establishment of partnerships with local authorities, companies, and cultural associations, fostering links between the educational community and the surrounding cultural environment.
He is currently Vice-President of the Cultural Association of the Regional Conservatory of Setúbal and administrator of the administrative, financial, and pedagogical areas of the Regional Conservatory of Setúbal. He is also a percussion teacher and ensemble class teacher at this institution.
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Born in Setúbal, where she began her musical studies at the age of 8 at the Sociedade Musical Capricho Setubalense, the Luísa Todi Academy of Music and Fine Arts (with Professor Fidélio Barrocas), and later at the Regional Conservatory of Music of Setúbal (with Professor Carlos Franco in the flute class, and Professors Maria Adelaide Rosado Pinto and Fernando Serro in piano).
She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Flute at the Lisbon School of Music, in the class of Professor Olavo Barros, and continued her studies in the Netherlands with Professor Jorge Carievschy, where she completed the Soloist Diploma with high distinction (9.5 out of 10).
In 2007, she completed her in-service professional qualification.
She was awarded by the Dutch faculty Constantijn Huygens and recorded on CD Messiaen’s Le Merle Noir and Duo for Flute and Piano by A. Copland.
She was also awarded as a soloist and in chamber music at the Portuguese Youth Musical competitions.
She took part in several youth orchestras, namely the European Union Youth Orchestra and the World Orchestra of Jeunesses Musicales. She was also selected for the Mediterranean Orchestra and the Gustav Mahler Orchestra, where she worked with names such as Bernard Haitink, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Mstislav Rostropovich, Bobby McFerrin, among many others.
She attended masterclasses with Trevor Wye, William Bennett, Rien de Reede, Vicenç Prats, Herbert Wiesseberg, among others.
In Portugal, she collaborated regularly with several orchestras, most notably as a guest flautist with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Orchestra, the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, the Northern Orchestra, and the National Orchestra of Porto.
She currently teaches at the Regional Conservatory of Setúbal, where she works as a flute teacher and flute ensemble teacher, and also takes part in a variety of chamber music programmes.
Sérgio Jerónimo was born in Lisbon on 8 September 1986. He began his musical studies at the age of 5 with his father, Manuel Jerónimo. At the age of 8, he entered the Music School of the National Conservatory, where he completed the 8th Grade in Clarinet in 2002, having studied with Professors Manuel Jerónimo, Artur Moreira, Nuno Silva, and Luís Gomes.
In addition to completing the full course at the National Conservatory, he holds a Degree in Music and a Master’s degree in Music Teaching from the Lisbon School of Music, where he studied with Professors Francisco Ribeiro and Paulo Gaspar.
He has won several National Clarinet Competitions: at the age of 8, he received an Honourable Mention in the Portuguese Musical Youth Competitions, where he performed from memory works by P. Harvey and L. van Beethoven; at 11, he won 1st Prize in the 8th Young Musicians Competition of the Municipalities of Almada and Seixal; at 14, he won 3rd Prize in the 3rd National Competition for Young Clarinetists, organised by the Portuguese Clarinet Association; and at 18, he won 2nd Prize in Class A at the 1st “Costa Azul” Clarinet Competition.
In 2015, in Loures, he gave a lecture on the topic “Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto K. 622: contributions to a modern edition of the solo clarinet score”, as part of the programme of the International Clarinet Meeting Marcos Romão dos Reis Jr.
He attended various Clarinet Advanced Courses taught by Manuel Jerónimo in Castelo Branco, Alcobaça, Oliveira do Bairro, Setúbal, Cascais, and Lisbon, as well as masterclasses with Professors Paul Meyer, Andrew Simon, E. Perez Piquer, Alberto Ferrer, Håkan Rosengren, J. Enric Lluna, Lawrie Bloom, and Walter Boeykens.
He was a teacher at Academia de Instrução e Recreio Familiar Almadense, Sociedade Filarmónica Incrível Almadense, and Academia de Música de Lisboa.
He is a member of the Almada Clarinet Orchestra, Ensemble Clarinete Modus, and Banda da Armada.
He has also been a wind instrument repair technician since 2023, after completing training at JGG Music Europa.
Tomás Moital is a multidisciplinary percussionist. His work is divided between ensemble, solo, and performance music.
He has been a performer with choreographer Marlene Monteiro Freitas since 2014, taking part in five productions, the most recent being Nôt, premiered in 2025 at the Festival d’Avignon.
He collaborates with several contemporary music ensembles and, in 2023, co-founded Associação Cigarra, which is home to Ensemble Cigarra, to which he devotes most of his ensemble work.
He has a strong connection to the music of Xenakis, which led him to develop Transformer l’Homme in 2022 at the Gulbenkian Foundation, and to Bach’s keyboard music, which he has been transcribing since 2015.
He is currently pursuing a PhD in Performing Arts and Moving Image, focusing on the transcription of Bach’s six keyboard partitas for marimba.
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Over the course of her training, she attended masterclasses with several distinguished bassoonists, including Sergio Azzolini, Stefano Canuti, Matthias Racz, Asger Svendsen and Robert Glassburner, among others.
As a performer, she has collaborated with leading Portuguese orchestras such as the Calouste Gulbenkian Orchestra, the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, Orquestra do Norte, Orquestra Clássica do Sul, Orquestra Clássica da Madeira and the POP Orchestra. Throughout her musical career, she has also worked with a number of ensembles and chamber groups, including the Double Reed Ensemble, the Wind Quintet of the Madeira Classical Orchestra, the OCCO Wind Quintet and the FAP Wind Quintet.
She has given masterclasses at Conservatório Artallis and at the Odemira Wind Course, and took part in the musical Navio dos Rebeldes at Teatro Trindade.
As a teacher, she has worked at Escola Profissional da Covilhã, Academia do Fundão, Orquestra Geração and Academia de Música de Alcobaça, among others. She currently teaches at the Escola Artística de Música do Conservatório Nacional, the Academia de Música de Almada and the Conservatório Regional de Setúbal.
Since 2003, she has been a member of the Portuguese Air Force Band, where she serves as Principal Bassoon and Section Leader.
André Nadais is a percussionist, born in 1997. He began his percussion studies at the Jobra Music Conservatory at the age of 9. In 2012, he was admitted to the Professional Course in Winds and Percussion at the same school. In 2015, he moved to England to complete his degree in Percussion at the Royal Northern College of Music, where he was awarded an ABRSM scholarship. After completing his degree, he went on to study for the International Artist Diploma, also at RNCM.
In competitions, he has received the following awards: 1st Prize in the “Tumpa-Tumpa” Competition, 1st Prize in the “Paço’s Premium” Competition, 1st Prize in the International Marimba Competition “Tomarimbando”, 1st Prize in the “RNCM Southern Percussion Competition”, 2nd Prize in the “Southern Percussion International Tuned Percussionist of the Year”, 1st Prize in the “RNCM Concerto Competition”, and a YAMAHA scholarship.
He also received the Silver Medal and was named Yeomen Young Artist by the Musicians’ Company in London. Together with chamber music groups, he was awarded: 2nd Prize with Distinction in the “Gilberta Paiva” Competition, 1st Prize in “Prémio Jovens Músicos”, and 1st Prize in the “13th National Percussion Competition” in Shanghai, China.
He has performed in countries such as Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, England, Wales, and China. He recorded a concerto for solo marimba and orchestra with the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester.
He was a percussion teacher in the Professional Winds and Percussion Course at ART’J for four years and is currently the percussion teacher at the Regional Conservatory of Setúbal. He is also a founding member of Cigarra Associação Cultural.
In this area, students develop essential skills for instrumental practice and composition, guided by an experienced teaching team.
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Originally from Latvia, she completed her secondary music studies in Choral Conducting at Staņislavs Broks Secondary School of Music (SBDMV), where she studied with Terēzija Broka and Jevgeņijs Ustinskovs.
She later entered the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music (JVLMA), where she completed a Bachelor’s degree in Musicology and a Master’s degree in Humanities, specialising in Music Theory and History. During this period, she studied with Ilma Grauzdiņa, Ludvigs Kārkliņš, Elena Lebedeva, among other distinguished teachers.
She taught Music History, Musical Analysis, and Music Theory at the prestigious Riga Cathedral Choir School (RDKS).
She currently lives in Portugal, where she works as a teacher of History of Culture and the Arts, Music Theory, and Choir at the Regional Conservatory of Setúbal.
He studied at the Academia de Amadores de Música de Lisboa and at the National Conservatory of Lisbon, where he completed the 7th year of the Piano course. At the same time, he studied drums at the Hot Club de Portugal Jazz School.
He holds a degree in Composition from the Lisbon School of Music (1999), a Master’s degree in Ethnomusicology from Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2007), and a PhD in Arts from the Faculty of Letters of Lisbon (2017), with a thesis entitled Musical Signification in Cinema.
He teaches at the Regional Conservatory of Setúbal and at Lusíada University of Lisbon, where he coordinates the Bachelor’s degree in Jazz and Modern Music. He taught at Luiz Villas-Boas Jazz School from 2003 to 2025 and was one of the founders of Barreiro Jazz School in 1999.
Throughout his career as a musician, he has joined and recorded numerous projects, mainly in the field of jazz. In 2010, he released his first solo album, Deambulações, which was widely acclaimed by critics and combines jazz with influences from Portuguese traditional music. His second album, Inquieta Luz, followed in 2014, and the third, Cinematheque, this time at the piano in a more classical and cinematic atmosphere, was released in 2021.
He is currently part of, among other projects, the group of Beatriz Nunes (Madredeus), with whom he participated in the albums Canto Primeiro and Livro de Horas, released in 2018 and 2023 respectively.
He recently released, in partnership with Luís Barrigas and João Custódio, the albums Indra, Shiva, and Brahma with the Indra Trio, the latter also featuring saxophonist Uli Kempendorff.
He also participates in the project of Mariano Deidda, with whom he recorded the albums Faust, in tribute to the writings of Fernando Pessoa, and, in 2025, Girgenti – Deidda canta Pirandello, with concerts in Portugal and Italy.
He frequently collaborates on various projects by pianist Isabel Rato. In a more pop-oriented field, he has collaborated since 2004 with singer-songwriter Paulo Ribeiro, for whom he has produced and participated in several albums.
Recently, he wrote the arrangements and orchestrations for the project Zeca Afonso Tocado por Miúdos, a tribute to José Afonso performed by children from the Regional Conservatory of Setúbal, which gave rise to an album released by Associação José Afonso.
At the same time, he has worked in theatre and film composition, having composed the soundtrack for the short film Fisherman (by Dean Radovanovic – 2018), and the feature films Raspberry1508 (by Nadina Helen Bakos – 2023) and Noites Claras (by Paulo Filipe Monteiro – 2025).
In theatre, he composed the soundtracks for the In.MEM project by Orizon.Art (Malmö, Sweden) in 2021 and for A Menina do Mar, Sophia de Mello Breyner’s masterpiece, adapted and directed by Anarita Rodrigues and premiered in Oslo in May 2022.
He frequently collaborates with the company Lêndias d’Encantar, from Beja, in the fields of theatre and dance.
In addition to his activity as a musician and composer, he develops ethnomusicological research on Cante Alentejano, the intangible cultural heritage of humanity from Alentejo.
Since 2019, he has been the artistic director of the International Jazz Festival “Jazz no Parque” in his hometown, Barreiro, Portugal.
Bachelor’s degree in Choral Conducting from the Lisbon School of Music (2003).
Professional teaching qualification from Universidade Aberta (2010).
As a conductor, he directed Coro Opus 21, Coral Luísa Todi, Coro de Câmara de Setúbal, and the Choir of Escola Secundária du Bocage. With Coro de Câmara de Setúbal, he premiered works by Eurico Carrapatoso, Vasco Pearce de Azevedo, Pedro Faria Gomes, and Carlos Marecos. With the same choir, he recorded, together with pianist Nuno Batoca, a CD of works by Fernando Lopes-Graça.
As a composer, his works have been performed by several ensembles, namely Grupo Vocal Olissipo, Coro Ricercare, the Chamber Choir of the Lisbon School of Music, Orquestra Sinfonietta de Lisboa, Quarteto Pandora’s Box (England), and Coro Autêntico. The latter recorded and released the work Três Poemas de Octavio Paz, for mixed choir and guitar quartet, under the direction of conductor Gonçalo Lourenço.
As a teacher, he taught at Conservatório de Música D. Dinis (Odivelas) and Conservatório Regional Silva Marques (Alhandra). Since 2000, he has taught at the Regional Conservatory of Setúbal, where he is a teacher of Music Theory and ensemble classes.
He is currently attending the Master’s degree in Musical Sciences, in the field of Ethnomusicology.
Sofia Amorim was born in Barreiro in 1989, where she began her musical studies at the age of 7. At 9, she entered the Music School of the National Conservatory, where she completed the complementary piano course.
At the Lisbon School of Music, she completed a Bachelor’s degree in Choral Conducting and Music Theory, and a Master’s degree in Music Theory, with the dissertation Traditional Music in Early Music Education, under the supervision of Professor Cristina Brito da Cruz.
She studied at the Kodály Institute of the Liszt Academy under the Erasmus programme, specialising in Kodály Pedagogy, where she studied with László Norbert Nemes, Katalin Kiss, Katalin Körtvési, Orsolya Szabó, and Roland Hajdu.
She attended choral conducting courses with Stephen Coker, Eugene Rogers, and Paulo Lourenço, and studied vocal technique with Paulo Lourenço, János Klézli, and Isabel Alcobia.
She was a member of the Chamber Choir of the Lisbon School of Music, sang in the octet Voct, in the jazz octet After Seven, and was one of the founding members of the female quartet Just 4 a Moment (under the artistic direction of Árpád Tóth), with which she highlights concerts at the Camões Institute in Budapest and at the Night of Choirs in Budapest.
In 2018, she sang in the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Participatory Choir in Mozart’s Requiem, under the direction of conductor Nuno Coelho.
She collaborates frequently with the choir Comtradição. As a solo singer, she performs regularly with small chamber music groups, with a wide-ranging repertoire from Baroque sacred music to the present day, including children’s repertoire.
She has also developed activity in the field of translation and adaptation of stories, as well as lyrical translation of musical works.
She has been a teacher at the Regional Conservatory of Setúbal since 2011.
In this course, students explore the language of improvisation and individual creativity, combining technical precision with the aesthetic versatility of jazz.
Born in 1982, this trumpeter hails from the island of Madeira and began his musical journey by joining the local philharmonic orchestra at the age of 11.
In 1993, he began his formal music studies at the Madeira Conservatory (CEPAM), where he studied for eight years. He continued his studies for another five years at the Hot Clube de Portugal, and completed his training in 2010 in the Netherlands, where he earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in jazz trumpet from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. As a musician, he has performed and/or recorded with many musical groups and projects across a wide range of genres, including the Madeira Classical Orchestra, the Hot Clube de Portugal Big Band, Rui Veloso, Tiago Bettencourt & Mantha, Oquestrada, Miguel Gameiro, HMB, Groove Quartet, Ramón Galarza Selma Uamuse, Emil Bovbjerg NewSeptet, João Firmino, José Dias Quarteto, among others.
He is a professor in the “Jazz and Modern Music Course at the Lusíada University of Lisbon,” Gera Jazz, and JB Jazz Clube.
He began his musical journey at the Gregorian Institute of Lisbon at the age of 12, where he studied cello and music theory. Between 2007 and 2011, he completed his bachelor’s degree in Musicology at Universidade Nova – FCSH. In 2009, he participated in the “Erasmus” program in Vienna, Austria, where he studied saxophone with Rupert Steltzer and Manfred Balasch. He studied jazz saxophone at the JBjazz school with professors Luís Santos and Guto Lucena.
He later took lessons with Professor José Menezes until he began and throughout his bachelor’s degree in Music – Jazz (saxophone) at the University of Évora, which he completed in 2018. He performs with various musical groups such as “GUME,” “Swing na Guelra,” “Stomping at Six,” “Gapura,” “24 Robbers Swing Band,” “They Must Be Crazy,” “Muri Muri,” “Reunion Big Band,” “Jungle Jazz Orchestra,” “Évora Jazz Orchestra,” and “Alão Jazz Big Band.”
He was born in 1978 in the city of Setúbal, and first began playing the piano at the age of six. At the age of nineteen, he enrolled at the Setúbal Regional Conservatory to study classical piano with Carla Seixas and Joaquim Fernandes. In 2002, he earned a degree in Music Education, at which point he began studying composition with Cristopher Bochman, and jazz piano and composition with Mário Laginha. He attended the Hot Clube Portugal Jazz School, studying piano with Filipe Melo and Rui Caetano, and has since participated in various workshops and seminars with Myra Melford, Kenny Werner, Fred Hersch, Vardan Ovsepian, John Taylor, Enrico Pieranunzi, Joshua Redman, and Shai Maestro. He completed the Advanced Jazz Program in piano at E.S.M.L. with João Paulo Esteves da Silva in 2013.
Daniel Neto was born in Germany in 1979. He moved to Portugal in 1985 and developed an interest in guitar at the age of 14.
He studied guitar at the Luiz Villas-Boas Jazz School, Hot Clube de Portugal, between 2001 and 2007.
He attended the Umbria Jazz Clinics of Berklee College of Music in Perugia, Italy, and entered the Bachelor’s degree in Music – Jazz Branch at the University of Évora in 2009.
In 2011, he obtained a scholarship to represent the University of Évora at the “Guitar Intensive” summer course at the San Francisco Jazz Institute in Berkeley, California.
He represented the University of Évora at Festa do Jazz Português at Teatro S. Luiz, Lisbon, and, through the same institution, received a scholarship in partnership with Fundação Luís de Molina for a professional internship at DerSoundmann Recording & Studio, Stuttgart.
He obtained Grade 8 in Classical Guitar from Trinity College London in 2017.
He is part of several groups: Daniel Neto Quinteto, Daniel Neto Quarteto, Daniel Neto Trio, Daniel Neto Solo, RAN, Surf & Spaghej Band – as frontman – and Not There Yet, Alexander Search, Joana Barra Vaz, José Braima Galissá, Oh Laurinda, and Búfalo Sentado as sideman.
He has released two albums under his own name – Embrião and Olho de Peixe – and seven collaborative albums: Vote Monkey, RAN, The Most Wanted, Ride the Tiger, Alexander Search, Cidade Saloia, and Invaders.
He collaborates with several music professionals, including Carlos Barretto, Alexandre Frazão, Loet Van Der Lee, Carlos Martins, Eduardo Lála, Ricardo Toscano, Mateja Dolsak, Rita Maria, Nelson Cascais, João Lencastre, Johannes Krieger, Salvador Sobral, Júlio Resende, Vitorino, Janita Salomé, Tomás Pimentel, Tomás Marques, Giusy Zaccagnini, André Rosinha, Vânia Fernandes, Pedro Segundo, Rodrigo Amado, Marta Hugon, João Hasselberg, Diogo Picão, Selma Uamusse, Benjamim, Margarida Campelo, António Quintino, Beatriz Nunes, Daniel Bernardes, Valete, among others.
Born on July 1, 1980, in Lisbon, he began his musical studies at the EJB under the guidance of Zé Eduardo, while simultaneously completing a degree in double bass at the National Conservatory with Professor Manuel Rêgo.
He also studied with Bernardo Moreira, Carlos Barreto, Nelson Cascais, Matt Penman, Gerald Cleaver, and others. Since 2002, he has been an active musician on the Portuguese jazz scene, having performed and recorded with Julio Resende, Nuno Ferreira, Mário Delgado, Jacinta, André Fernandes, Jorge Reis, Jorge Moniz, Luís Figueiredo, Bruno Santos, Luís Barrigas, Claus Nymark, Felipe Melo, Vasco Agostinho, Rita Maria, Michael Lauren, Claudia Franco, Isabel Rato, and many others. Outside of jazz, he also works with musicians such as Manuel João Vieira, Jorge Palma, Vitorino, Gisela João, JP Simões, and others. Between 2005 and 2012, he also participated in contemporary dance and theater productions with the Amalgama company, choreographer Inês Jacques, and director Hugo Mestre Amaro. Since 2010, she has taught at various schools, including the Barreiro Jazz School, Hot Clube, and now the Dos Franceses Jazz Academy, in addition to various educational projects such as the Junior Music Workshop and Jazz Goes to School, among others.
He studied at the Academia de Amadores de Música de Lisboa and at the National Conservatory of Lisbon, where he completed the 7th year of the Piano course. At the same time, he studied drums at the Hot Club de Portugal Jazz School.
He holds a degree in Composition from the Lisbon School of Music (1999), a Master’s degree in Ethnomusicology from Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2007), and a PhD in Arts from the Faculty of Letters of Lisbon (2017), with a thesis entitled Musical Signification in Cinema.
He teaches at the Regional Conservatory of Setúbal and at Lusíada University of Lisbon, where he coordinates the Bachelor’s degree in Jazz and Modern Music. He taught at Luiz Villas-Boas Jazz School from 2003 to 2025 and was one of the founders of Barreiro Jazz School in 1999.
Throughout his career as a musician, he has joined and recorded numerous projects, mainly in the field of jazz. In 2010, he released his first solo album, Deambulações, which was widely acclaimed by critics and combines jazz with influences from Portuguese traditional music. His second album, Inquieta Luz, followed in 2014, and the third, Cinematheque, this time at the piano in a more classical and cinematic atmosphere, was released in 2021.
He is currently part of, among other projects, the group of Beatriz Nunes (Madredeus), with whom he participated in the albums Canto Primeiro and Livro de Horas, released in 2018 and 2023 respectively.
He recently released, in partnership with Luís Barrigas and João Custódio, the albums Indra, Shiva, and Brahma with the Indra Trio, the latter also featuring saxophonist Uli Kempendorff.
He also participates in the project of Mariano Deidda, with whom he recorded the albums Faust, in tribute to the writings of Fernando Pessoa, and, in 2025, Girgenti – Deidda canta Pirandello, with concerts in Portugal and Italy.
He frequently collaborates on various projects by pianist Isabel Rato. In a more pop-oriented field, he has collaborated since 2004 with singer-songwriter Paulo Ribeiro, for whom he has produced and participated in several albums.
Recently, he wrote the arrangements and orchestrations for the project Zeca Afonso Tocado por Miúdos, a tribute to José Afonso performed by children from the Regional Conservatory of Setúbal, which gave rise to an album released by Associação José Afonso.
At the same time, he has worked in theatre and film composition, having composed the soundtrack for the short film Fisherman (by Dean Radovanovic – 2018), and the feature films Raspberry1508 (by Nadina Helen Bakos – 2023) and Noites Claras (by Paulo Filipe Monteiro – 2025).
In theatre, he composed the soundtracks for the In.MEM project by Orizon.Art (Malmö, Sweden) in 2021 and for A Menina do Mar, Sophia de Mello Breyner’s masterpiece, adapted and directed by Anarita Rodrigues and premiered in Oslo in May 2022.
He frequently collaborates with the company Lêndias d’Encantar, from Beja, in the fields of theatre and dance.
In addition to his activity as a musician and composer, he develops ethnomusicological research on Cante Alentejano, the intangible cultural heritage of humanity from Alentejo.
Since 2019, he has been the artistic director of the International Jazz Festival “Jazz no Parque” in his hometown, Barreiro, Portugal.
Pedro Carvalho has collaborated throughout his career with several orchestras, including the Sinfonieta de Lisboa, the Metropolitan Orchestra, the Cascais and Oeiras Chamber Orchestra, the Lisbon Film Orchestra, and the Gulbenkian Orchestra. He has also collaborated in various musical theatre productions and several other projects.
He has taught at the Dona Maria Campina Regional Conservatory of the Algarve, the Regional Conservatory of Baixo Alentejo, the Cascais Music Conservatory, and the Helen Keller Centre.
He pursued his artistic studies at the Lisbon School of Music, the Music School of the National Conservatory of Lisbon, the Hot Clube de Portugal Jazz School, and the Piaget Institute of Almada. He holds a postgraduate qualification in School Administration and is currently attending the Master’s degree in Management and School Administration at ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon.
Committed to specialised artistic education and to promoting access to the arts, he has been supporting and developing, through the Regional Conservatory of Setúbal, pedagogical and artistic projects focused on training in the areas of music, dance, and theatre. This work includes the creation and development of educational events and projects, as well as the establishment of partnerships with local authorities, companies, and cultural associations, fostering links between the educational community and the surrounding cultural environment.
He is currently Vice-President of the Cultural Association of the Regional Conservatory of Setúbal and administrator of the administrative, financial, and pedagogical areas of the Regional Conservatory of Setúbal. He is also a percussion teacher and ensemble class teacher at this institution.
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Catarina dos Santos is a singer, composer, and teacher with an international career spanning Africa, Portugal, Brazil, and the USA. Based in New York, this multicultural experience has become the central driving force of her artistic language, where jazz dialogues with Afro-Atlantic traditions, urban music, spoken word, and sound experimentation.
She trained in Jazz Performance at the City College of New York, studied Orchestration at the Juilliard School, and was a member of the Juilliard School Choral Union.
With Nation Beat, she recorded Maracatuniversal (2006, Recife) and performed in landmark venues such as The Blue Note, Joe’s Pub, and The Stone (John Zorn). Under her own name, she released the albums No Balanço do Mar (New York, 2009) and Rádio Kriola (Lisbon, 2016), which consolidate an original sound between jazz, Afro-Brazilian rhythms, and Lisbon’s transcultural landscape.
She completed a Master’s degree in Composition at Goldsmiths University of London, while also developing work for theatre and dance, notably The Power Behind the Crone (2017) and Untitled, by Gianna Burright.
In 2021, with the project Mad Nomad, she released the album Untamed, a fusion of jazz and spoken word accompanied by the bilingual book Untamed – The Mad Nomad Texts.
In 2022, she composed the music for the multidisciplinary work Parallel Cycles, commissioned by Sluice Magazine (UK).
She is currently finalising Common Ground, the second Mad Nomad album, and preparing Terra Terra, a new work that combines jazz with elements of Cape Verdean musical tradition, affirming a mature, singular, and deeply contemporary artistic vision.
She performs regularly in major festivals and projects, including the Women in Latin Jazz Festival (2023–2025), collaborating with central figures of the New York jazz scene.
At the same time, she develops teaching activity in Portugal and the USA, as an artist and guest teacher in programmes such as Samba Meets Jazz (USA/Paris). She teaches Jazz Singing, Theory and Musical Analysis, and History of Jazz at the Music Conservatory of the National Conservatory, and Singing and Jazz Choir at the Regional Conservatory of Setúbal.
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