Concerto | Sonatas by Johannes Brahms

A Portuguese viola player, she was born in 1990, and began her musical studies at the age of 10 at the Calouste Gulbenkian Conservatory of Music in Braga,as a student of Professor Luís Norberto and Dírio Alves. In 2011, she completed her Bachelor's degree at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, under the supervision of Prof. Pedro Muñoz, and in 2014 she completed her Master's degree in Teaching at the same university.

From a very young age, she took part in and was selected for various youth orchestras, such as the Momentum Perpetuum Youth Orchestra, the Latin American Youth Orchestra and the Gulbenkian Internship Orchestra, among others. She has performed masterclasses with world-renowned viola players such as Diemut Poppen, Tobby Hoffmann, Natasha Tchitch, Ana Bela Chaves, Gérard Caussé, Ryszard Wóycicki, Samuel Barsegian, David Lloyd and Jorge Alves.

In terms of chamber music, she has worked with Pavel Gomziakov, Marialena Fernandes, Gary Hoffman, Irene Lima, Clélia Vital, Khachatour Amirkhanian, Paulo Pacheco, Alexandra Mendes, Gareguin Aroutiounian, Alexei Eremine and Paul Wakabayashi, among others.

She has played several solo and chamber music recitals with pianist Isa Antunes at various Portuguese venues through the Movimento Patrimonial pela Música Portuguesa (MPMP) and has played solo with the Orquestra do Norte and the Orquestra Sinfónica da Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa.

She is also the leader of the Almada Orchestra and collaborates regularly with the Gulbenkian Orchestra, the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, the Lisbon Symphony Orchestra, the Sintra Orchestra and the Cascais Oeiras Chamber Orchestra.

In addition, she is a member of Camerata Atlântica, where she has given several chamber music and solo concerts in Portugal and abroad, in prestigious auditoriums such as the Gulbenkian Foundation Auditorium. With this group, she has premiered various Portuguese works and recorded CDs for the Naxos label. She has been a member of the panel for various music competitions in the viola category for various editions of the "Vasco Barbosa Competition", and has been invited to perform masterclasses at the Óbidos Academy and the Santarém Conservatory of Music, among others.

She currently teaches viola at the Artistic School of the Gregorian Institute of Lisbon and at the Silva Marques Regional Conservatory.

César Gonçalves began studying the cello at the age of 18 with Agostinho Henriques and Jaime Dias, following an eclectic path between orchestral and vocal music, jazz and traditional Madeiran music.

In 2005, he studied cello with Paulo Gaio Lima and chamber music with Paul Wakabayashi, having completed a Bachelor's degree in Music (2008) and a Master's degree in Performance (2009) with the same professors. He also has a postgraduation in Vocal Music Teaching (2011) and in 2014, he completed his Master's degree in Music Teaching (cello), with Clélia Vital as his sipervisor.

His academic career includes masterclasses in Portugal and abroad with teachers such as Radu Aldulesco, Antonio Lysy, Pablo de Náveran, Eckart Schwarz-Schulz, among others, in modern cello, and Miguel Ivo Cruz and Diana Vinagre, in baroque cello, with the latter profoundly marking his artistic growth.

With retards his professional career, he has mainly been a freelancer, and he has been a member of several national and international orchestras and chamber groups in various countries in the Europe and Africa, working with various conductors and composers, often playing at world premieres of their works. He was co-responsible for the creation of the Academic Orchestra of the University of Lisbon (OAUL), and was its coordinator from its foundation in 2014 up until 2017.

He is a co-founding member of the Ensemble Carlos Seixas and Prometheus Quartet, and has been teaching at the Gregorian Institute of Lisbon since 2016.

Eurico Rosado began his piano studies with Professor Gilberta Paiva at the National Conservatory, where he completed the Higher Piano Course. As the holder of a grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Secretary of State for Culture, he studied with the pianist Aldo Ciccolini in Italy and Paris.

She holds a Master's degree in Musical Arts/Piano (UNL and ESML) and worked with Jorge Moyano and Miguel Henriques throughout this stage of her academic life. She has been active as a pianist, performing in public, solo and in chamber music, namely with pianist António Rosado and violinist Aníbal Lima.

As a soloist, he has played at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, CCB and Casa da Música, with the Gulbenkian Orchestra, the Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa and the Orquestra Nacional do Porto, under the leaddrship of conductors such as Marc Tardue and Lawrence Foster. He has recorded works by Vianna da Motta, Saint-Saëns and Debussy, among others, for BMG and Numérica.

Since 1996 he has been a piano teacher at the Gregorian Institute of Lisbon.