Clara Saleiro & Mariana Dionísio
Music
Teatro Municipal de Vila do Conde — Salão Nobre28 Sept. (Sat.) 21:30
M/6 | Duração aprox.: 45 min. | 5 eur | bilhete combinado (permite acesso ao concerto Supernova Ensemble e Silvestre Pestana)
M/6 | Duração aprox.: 45 min. | 5 eur | bilhete combinado (permite acesso ao concerto Supernova Ensemble e Silvestre Pestana)
Based on a piece by Kate Soper – “Only the Words Themselves Mean What They Say” – Mariana Dionísio and Clara Saleiro set out to discover new ways of playing together. Ideas, games, and small themes form the basis for an exploration of the sonic fusion between voice and flute through improvisation.
Clara Saleiro - flute
Clara Saleiro - flute
Mariana Dionísio - voice
Clara Saleiro is a flutist specialized in the interpretation of contemporary music who loves the constant new experiences and challenges that music brings to her life.
She’s interested in the creative process of pieces and performances, the possible interactions between interpreter and composer and between music and other artistic areas, the symbiosis with electronic music and digital technology, and the interpretation of notated music as well as improvisation.
As the founding member of Noviga Projekto (AT) as well as flutist of the ensembles Vertixe Sonora (ES), Barcelona Modern (ES), ECPV (PT) and SUPERNOVA (PT), she debuts every year dozens of pieces from composers with whom she works directly and participates at several international music festivals.
Clara Saleiro is regularly invited to collaborate with different ensembles, orchestras and in different chamber formations, ranging from classical to contemporary repertoire, as well as with exploratory and improvised music groups.
Clara began to play the flute when she was eight years old at Academia de Música S. Pio X de Vila do Conde, in her hometown in Portugal. Throughout her musical career she studied at renowned institutions of Portugal such as Artave, ANSO-Metropolitana and Universidade de Aveiro. Additionally, she completed a master’s degree at Royal Academy of Music in London, specialized in contemporary music at the flute studio of Stephanie Wagner (Remix Ensemble), completed postgraduate studies in contemporary music at Kunstuniversität Graz (Austria), with the Klangforum Wien, and was part at the Lucerne Festival Academy (Switzerland), being a member of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra. Furthermore, she studied improvisation at the Interferência’ courses.
The current season includes her participation in an artistic residency in Lille; at the festivals Circular, Create Culture Eco, FIMPV, Fluctuations, SUN DAZE, Tampere Jazz Happening, as well as concerts in Finland, France, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain.
Mariana Dionísio is a singer, improviser, and composer who questions the role of the voice in musical tradition and explores its technical, timbral, and poetic potential as the sonic expression of words. Trained in classical piano at the National Conservatory of Lisbon and holding a degree in jazz voice from the Lisbon School of Music, Mariana is active primarily in the jazz, experimental, and contemporary music scenes. Collaborations span across various artists from different backgrounds, including Mané Fernandes, João Pereira, Pedro Branco, Ricardo Toscano, João Carlos Pinto, Pedro Melo Alves, João Grilo, Eve Risser, Mark Dresser, Jaap Blonk, Jacqueline Kerrod, Carincur, Anabela Duarte, Norberto Lobo, Bruno Pernadas, Ricardo Jacinto, and Filipe Trovão. Recent composition commissions have come from the Matosinhos Jazz Orchestra, Ensemble Theia, Setúbal Jazz Orchestra, and Culturgest/Generation/Canal180 Jogo Cruzado #5 in collaboration with Leonor Arnaut. Current projects include several duo collaborations such as LUMP with trumpeter João Almeida, TRACAPANGÃ with drummer João Pereira, Project REQUIEM with guitarist João Carreiro, the vocal duo ARNAUT/DIONÍSIO with Leonor Arnaut, and a duo with flutist Clara Saleiro. Mariana directs the vocal ensemble LEIDA, for which she composes. In December 2023, she received the "Revelation Artist" award from ANTENA2/FESTADOJAZZ.