L'ASPIRATION
Born in 1987 in Guimarães and began her musical studies at age 14 with Pedro Lira. Three years later she continued her studies at the Academia de Música Valentim Moreira e Sá, Guimarães. A year later, she joined the Escola Profissional de Música de Espinho where she studied for three years, during which she had the opportunity to work with conductors such as Victor North, Cesario Costa, Pedro Neves and Jean-Marc Burfin as a member of the Classical Orchestra of Espinho. In this school she had as main teachers Emilia Vanguelova and Nuno Soares and participated in masterclasses with Yuri Nasushkin, Zofia Wóycicka. In 2009 enters in the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo (ESMAE) where she started her career in Early Music (bachelor) with Amandine Beyer, Sabela Garcia Fonte and Denys Stetsenko. In this area has participated in masterclasses with Olivia Centurioni, Antoinette Lohmann and Benjamin Chénier and integrates CMA’s Baroque Orchestra where has worked with conductors such as Marco Ceccato, Pedro Castro, Pedro Sousa Silva and Ana Mafalda Castro. Is currently part of Concerto Ibérico Orquestra Barroca with the direction of João Paulo Janeiro.
Sofia Fernandes
Baroque Violin
Born August 5, 1986. Studied music (violin, piano, singing and viola da gamba), dance and theater since her childhood, having passed through the Juventude Musical Portuguesa, the Pequenos Cantores do Estoril (with whom she recorded a CD of Christmas), the Conservatório Nacional de Música de Lisboa, Escola de Dança Ana Mangericão, Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, by Sjöviks Folkhögskola, the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo and currently studying at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. As an actress, singer and dancer has participated in performances of Musical Theatre (Um Sonho Mágico, José e o Deslumbrante Manto de Mil Cores, Cabeças no Ar, Cantastórias, O Segredo da Floresta, A boneca de Trapos e o Homem de Lata), as Assistant Director participated in the opera Fausto by Gounod (Teatro Nacional São Carlos), as singer in Coro Sinfónico da Casa da Música, as Musical Director in performing the Cântico dos Cânticos (in collaboration with TeatroEnsaio and Teatro Nacional São João). Has viola da gamba player, plays with various groups in Portugal and Sweden, both Ancient Music (Historically Informed) as Music Traditional Portuguese and Swedish.
Carmina Repas Gonçalves
Viola da Gamba
She began her musical studies in 1993 at the Escola de Música do Município de Loulé in classical guitar and recorder, and later she joined the Conservatório Regional de Faro “Maria Campina”. Since 1998 she has been attending courses, workshop's and master improvement in early music and in recorder such as: Encontros de Música da Casa de Mateus, Encontros de Música Antiga de Loulé, Cursos de Verão Jovens Músicos de Caldas da Rainha e Cursos Internacionais de Música Antiga de Castelo Branco beyond Masterclasses de Música Antiga na Universidade de Évora e na Escola de Música do Conservatório Nacional. She has been perfecting herself in internationally renowned professionals such as: Bart Spanhove (Belgium), Dorothee Oberlinger (Germany), António Carrilho (Portugal), Bert Honig (Netherlands), Monika Mush (Netherlands), Lara Morris (Israel), César Viana (Portugal), Pedro Couto Soares (Portugal), and Ricardo Kanji (Brazil), Antoinette Lohman (Netherlands), Javier Aguirre (Spain), João Paulo Janeiro (Portugal) and Rafael Bonavita (Spain). She has participated in concerts with groups Bancheto Musicale, Ensemble Barroco do Chiado, Orquestra Barroca do Centro Cultural de Belém Divino Sospiro, Agrupamento Musical da Accademia di Santa Cecila (Roma), Projecto Orquestra Barroca, Amato Lusitano - group of early music, and more recently is member of Concerto Ibérico Orquestra Barroca. In 2011 she was awarded the first prize in the category of soloist and first prize in the category of chamber music in the competition Concursos de Jovens Intérpretes de Música Antiga ‘11, Jornadas de Música Antiga Conde de Oeiras. She is currently completing a degree in Recorder at Escola de Artes Aplicadas do Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco in the class of Professor António Carrilho.
Born in 1988 in Lisbon. He began his formal musical studies with 12 years in the Gregorian Institute of Lisbon, where in 2008 he graduated complementary studies in harpsichord under the supervision of his teacher Cristiano Holtz. He attended masterclasses with Davitt Moroney, Ketil Haugsand, Elizabeth Joyé and Rinaldo Alessandrini, among others.
In 2008 he moved to Porto, where he graduated in Early Music - Harpsichord at the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo (ESMAE) in the class of Ana Mafalda Castro. During the bachelor, he attended workshops with Andrea Coen and Siebe Henstra (harpsichord), Marco Ceccato and Pedro Castro (orchestra) and Pedro Sousa Silva (Renaissance ensemble). Currently he is attending the Masters in Performance at the same institution. Besides his activity as harpsichordist, he also appears on stage with various groups in the area of rock and jazz and participates in composing soundtracks for short films.
André Lourenço
Hapsichord
