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Bassist and composer Gonçalo Almeida (Lisbon, 1978) lives in Rotterdam, Netherlands, where he studied at the Rotterdams Conservatorium with Hein van Geyn, Stefan Lievestro, Marius Beets and Peter Leerdman. He has been making a mark as one of Netherlands’s most interesting new generation bass players. His projects involve the forerunners of the Dutch and Portuguese jazz scenes, bridging modern jazz, free jazz, jazzcore and free improvisation. He has shared the stage with improvisers such has Ab Baars, Balasz Pandi, Chris Speed, Carlos Zíngaro, Fred Lonberg-Holm , Jasper Stadhouders, Jorrit Dijkstra, Martin van Duynhoven, Rodrigo Amado, Tobias Klein, and Wilbert de Joode, among others. In addition has worked with video artists, modern dancers, poets and theater makers, such as Arnold Dreyblatt, Julyen Hamilton and others. João Almeida (1997) is a portuguese trumpeter, improviser and composer based in the city of Lisbon, Portugal. At the age of 8, he started his musical studies in the local philharmonic band and, later, started studying at the National Conservatory. In 2015, he joined the Luiz-Villas Boas Jazz School and the following year he was accepted into the Jazz course at the Lisbon Superior School of Music, where he studied under Gonçalo Marques and João Moreira. During his degree, he had the opportunity to work and collaborate with some of the most relevant musicians in the portuguese music scene, including Pedro Moreira, André Fernandes, Nelson Cascais, Luís Candeias, Hugo Antunes, João Mortágua, João Lopes Pereira, João Sousa, Pedro Branco, Gonçalo Marques, André Carvalho, André Santos, André Matos, André Rosinha, among others.
During this period, he started collaborating with Jazz Orchestra of the Hotclub of Portugal, where he had the opportunity to share the stage with Julian Arguelles, Perico Sambeat, Guillermo Klein and John Hollenbeck.
On the last year of his degree, he started taking classes with Peter Evans and started learning about Free Jazz and non-idiomatic improvisation, having collaborated with Peter Evans, Albert Cirera, Gabriel Ferrandini, Hernâni Faustino, Pedro Alves Sousa, Rodrigo Amado, Ernesto Rodrigues , Guilherme Rodrigues, Susana Santos Silva, Yaw Tembe, Ricardo Martins, Norberto Lobo, Abdul Moimême, Alvaro Rosso, Rodrigo Pinheiro, Pedro Melo Alves, João Valinho, Péter Ajtai, Mia Dyberg and Fred Lonberg-Holm.
On May of 2020 he has released his first solo album, “SOLO SESSIONS *||||”, a work centered on the exploration of extended techniques and the use of objects to manipulate sound.
He has played in festivals and venues such as Teatro S.Luiz, Teatro do Bairro, Capitólio, Salão Brazil, Hotclube de Portugal, Sala Porta-Jazz, Zaratan, Café Dias, Sociedade Guilherme Cossoul, Galeria Zé dos Bois, Centro Cultural de Belém, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Outfest 2019, Festa do Avante, Robalo Jazz Festival, QuebraJazz, ACUD Theater, Madame Claude, LOOPHOLE and has toured extensively through Europe.
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