Mariá Portugal

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Mariá Portugal at the Moers Festival 2019

Mariá Portugal (born May 1, 1984 in São Paulo ) is a Brazilian jazz and improvisation musician ( drums , also vocals , composition ).

Live and act

Portugal began taking piano lessons at the age of nine ; later she switched to drums and orchestral percussion . In 2007 she took part in Karlheinz Stockhausen's summer course in Kürten. In 2011 she completed her bachelor's degree in composition at the Universidade Federal de São Paulo . In the subsequent master’s degree in communication and semiotics at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo , which she graduated in 2015, she examined cognitive relationships between body and sound in the context of improvised music and dance.

Portugal has recorded three albums with the instrumental quintet Quartabê and has performed internationally. She has been active as a drummer and singer in the Brazilian music scene for 20 years; she also worked with Arrigo Barnabé, toured with Dona Zica and Fernanda Takai, with whom she made albums. Deeply rooted in the Brazilian songwriting tradition, she has a great interest in electronic music; After getting to know European improvisation music, she deals with the use of improvisation in song composition and performance. As a drummer and singer, she has continued to work with artists such as Maggie Nicols , Charlotte Hug , Caroline Kraabel , Gail Brand , Elza Soares , Joëlle Léandre , Billy Martin and the Metá Metá group . The album Daytime Sketches was created in 2017 with Jasper van't Hof and Paul van Kemenade . She also composed music for dance theater, especially for the Panapaná Dance Theater Company and for Nova Dança 4 , theater, video, cinema and art installations. Together with researcher Jamille Pinheiro Dias, she produced the cross-genre online radio program Livrofonia .

In 2020 Portugal will be improviser in residence at the Moers Festival .

Web links

Commons : Mariá Portugal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c portrait (Paul van Kemenade)
  2. ↑ Brief portrait
  3. ↑ Portugal-Van Kemenade-Van 't Hof
  4. ↑ City musician with drums and voice
personal data
SURNAME Portugal, Mariá
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian jazz and improvisation musician (drums, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH São Paulo