Luís Madureira

Luís Madureira was born in Tomar in 1955. Graduated with the Superior Course of Voice by the National Conservatory of Lisbon, in the class of Professor Joana Silva, he continued his studies in London with Professor Peter Harrison, as a scholarship holder of the Secretary of State for Culture. He holds a degree in Music / Variant Canto, from the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (ESML). Luis Madureira divides his activity between teaching, singing, theater and cinema. He is often invited to collaborate as a teacher of vocal technique and elocution by several institutions. His repertoire covers ancient music, baroque, lied and melodie, as well as a large number of composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. After being member of the Gulbenkian Choir, where he was directed by Jorge Matta, Fernando Eldoro, Michel Corboz, Michel Tabachnik and Claudio Scimone, Luís Madureira performed regularly in concert accompanied by some of the best known Portuguese pianists including Olga Prats, Jorge Moyano, João Paulo Santos and Nuno Vieira de Almeida, in Portugal, France, Germany, Switzerland, England, USA, Brazil and Mozambique. He was a founding member of the ColecViva musical theater group, directed by the composer Constança Capdeville, performing several times at the Encontros de Música Contemporânea of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, at Encontros Acarte, at the Auditorium of the Center for Modern Art of the Gulbenkian Foundation, at the Teatro São Carlos, and in many other c…