João Francisco Távora

João Francisco Távora has a degree in Early Music from the School of Music and Performing Arts (ESMAE-P.PORTO), in the class of Professor Pedro Sousa Silva. He began his studies on the recorder at the Artistic School of the Calouste Gulbenkian Conservatory of Music, Aveiro (2008/2009), where he took classes with Daniela Lousã, Mónica Resende and Jorge Ferreira and attended workshops and masterclasses with Fernando Paz, Marco Magalhães and António Carrilho. He took part in ESMAE’s International Early Music Course (2018), the ‘Open Recorder Days Amsterdam’ (3rd edition) and the course ‘The Recorder in the Renaissance’, directed by Pedro Sousa Silva. João is currently enrolled in the Master’s Degree in Early Music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater ‘Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’ in Leipzig, in the class of Professor Robert Ehrlich. He collaborates with the Ensemble Arte Minima, a musical group specialising in Portuguese Renaissance music, with which he recorded his first album in December 2021. He plans to record three more discs with the same ensemble, one with music by Francisco de Santa Maria and the others with music by Vicente Lusitano.