ESílvia Mateus

Specialist at IPL, Master Degree in Music Theater Studies at Sheffield University, Superior academic Degree at Gaia Regional Conservatory. Body Mapping and Alexander Technique Course at the University of Colorado Boulton, U.S.A. Postgraduate courses with Paul Schilhawsky, Willma Lipp, Illeana Cotrubas, etc. 1st Prize of the National Singing Competition Luísa Todi in 1993 and 1st Prize of the Portuguese Musical Youth National Competition 1988. Performed as soilist in the main rooms of the country and in Spain, England, Germany, Russia, Austria, Italy, Brazil, China, Sweden, El Salvador, Venezuela, etc. In 2011 composed and edited a score for an opera, Brites de Almeida, for voice and percussion, from an original libretto translated into 12 languages. Has recorded several CDs as a soloist, notably The recording of Requiem’s by the memory of the victims of fascism in Portugal by Fernando Lopes-Graça with the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, Russia. Recently stage directed in absolute premieres the operas The Garden by Tiago Cabrita, Memory / okyia flower by Erica Liane, in a staged diretion premiere in Portugal of Peter Maxwell Davies opera 8 songs for a Mad King. She is a teacher of Singing, Movement and Scenic Interpretation classes and President of the ESML Pedagogical Council.