António João dos Santos Fernandes e Malta Gomes

António João dos Santos Fernandes and Malta Gomes (b. 1998), born in Macedo de Cavaleiro. From a young age with connections to music, with an incision in traditional music, he began his musical studies at the Municipal Conservatory of Bragança in the class of Professor Hugo Rodrigues. In the academic year 2013/2014 he joined ESPROARTE-Escola Profissional de Arte de Mirandela, also in the class of Hugo Rodrigues. He finished the course with a high rating. As a researcher, the elaboration of a monograph entitled “Traditional Journey: Bagpipes from the perspective of Trás-os-Montes and Galicia” was a remarkable moment in his student life, culminating in a public presentation of the same in which he obtained the classification maximum, was included in an e-book entitled “Good Practices of Professional Aptitude Tests” published by the Portuguese Catholic University, presented within the scope of the ArRiscar Meetings at the same institution, was also the 2nd prize winner in the Escola Empreendedora contest, promoted by the CLDS project. 3G de Mirandela, was also recognized and praised by the Secretary of State for Science, Technology and Higher Education, Dr. Maria Fernanda Rollo. In 2016 she enters the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo do Porto in the class of teacher Marta Eufrazio, where she still is currently studying. During this time he had the opportunity to work with great conductors such as Pedro Neves, Osvaldo Ferreira, Peter Askim, António Saiote, Thomas Hauschild, Andreas Stoehr, José Eduardo Gomes, Jan Wierzba, among others. He also had the privilege of working with great violinists, such as Jela Špitková, Zofia Wóycicka, Augusto Trindade, Pedro Piñol, Ilya Grubert, Afonso Fesch, Yossif Grinman, among others. As for Chamber Music, he studied with Gustavo Delgado, Ryszard Wóycicki, Afonso Fesch, Marta Eufrazio and Pedro Meireles, and had masterclasses with Juan Carlos Garvayo and Caspar Frantz.c