Hearts up High
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Date
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Location
Founder’s CollectionAv. de Berna, 45A, Lisbon
Maximum capactity: 20 visitors
Hearts up High is the result of a challenge faced by a group who are to interpret, with their bodies and voices, a set of pieces built out of listening to the religious celebrations held in the city of Lisbon. Some draw on shared origins in the works of art present in the room hosting this performance – the Museum’s Gallery of Islamic Art. This also features other works equally inspired on the religious hymns of Egypt, the Islamic Far East, Armenia and the former Ottoman Empire, which have pieces in the Collection.
Conducting the choir, its physical and vocal orchestration
With a background in Education for Childhood, Sound Design and Dance at Fórum Dança.
Has developed artistic creativity works for childhood with a particular emphasis on the theme of poetry: “Everything turns”, “Poems for little mouths” and the “Ballad of twenty chilly girls”; and, with other characteristics, the “Marinho” project.
Has run various projects in the field of VOICE/CHOIR alongside specific communities: “Coral Bestial” in Viseu; the “Cantares de Espinheiro” group, Alcanena; the “Oxalá” piece for the Circular Festival in Vila do Conde; the Speech/Concert: “Alento” in Ferreira do Alentejo; the “Hearts up High”, TODOS Festival 2013, in Lisbon and in Aljezur; and the “Popular Recitals” I and II, at the Festival of Silence, Lisbon.
She studied voice in New York with Shelley Hirsch and Lynn Book; at the nomadic Institute for the Living Voice and at the Roy Hart International School, Malérargues, France.
Holds a Master’s Degree in the Performing Arts – Theatre of Movement.
Research and support for the musical arrangements
Harpsichordist, organist, choir conductor and teacher of the Alexander technique, she was born in Sabadell (Barcelona). She studied piano and accompaniment at the Conservatories of Sabadell and Barcelona and choir conducting under Gaby Baltes in Palma de Majorca.
In Paris, she received her Teaching Diploma in Willems Musical Education and joined the Choeur de Maîtrise de Notre-Dame de Paris. She performed as an accompanying pianist for recitals of Spanish music and dance in Paris and conducted choirs in Malaga (Spain) and Sao Paulo (Brazil).
In Portugal, she founded the Barlavento Choir and studied the harpsichord with Elsa Mathei, Ana Mafalda Castro and Joana Bagulho at the Lisbon Higher School of Music. She was the organist for the first ever Ponte de Lima Encounter of Medieval Music and at the Rates Sacred Music Festival. She currently conducts the International Choir of Aljezur.