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António Jorge Nogueira

Founder and Pedagogical Director of the Lisbon Music Institute. Graduated by the School of Music of the National Conservatory of Lisbon, in the class of professor António Oliveira e Silva. He studied Electronics Engineering at the Higher Institute of Engineering of Lisbon. Licensed in orchestra instrumentalist by the National Superior Orchestra Academy (METROPOLITANA) in the class of Professor Aníbal Lima. He has participated in Music Improvement courses with Marc Destrubé, Yossi Zivoni, Gerardo Ribeiro, Rainer Sonne, among others. He is a guest musician of the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra and the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra. Violin teacher, specialized in the Teaching of Children by the Suzuki Method, started in 2005 at the Metropolitan Conservatory of Music in Lisbon and since 2012, is part of the faculty of the School of Music of the Modern College. An artist of recognized versatility, he recorded, as a session musician, various musical genres and performed live with pop rock bands such as The Gift, Room 74, Ena Pá 2000 and Irmãos Catita, Íris, Anjos, among others. He collaborates regularly with jazz musicians like Filipe Melo, Marta Hugon and João Paulo Esteves da Silva, and participated in projects led by Fernando Tordo, Carlos do Carmo and Dutch saxophonist Henk Van Twillert. An invitation from METROPOLITANA's artistic direction was a soloist in the recitals of "The Evil Machines" at Teatro São Luiz by Terry Jones and music by composer Luís Tinoco. Founder of TEMPUS, a Jazz String Quartet, he participated in the launch of the documentary "José e Pilar" at the LUX discotheque accompanying Pedro Granato (Brazil) and Pedro Gonçalves (Dead Combo). With a very comprehensive formation and innate entrepreneurship, he created, together with a friend, VINYL. Since 2008 it is referred to as a space where they have passed all cultural expressions, from jazz to poetry nights, marking a special territory both in gastronomy and in Lisbon culture. Between 2007 and 2010 he was a producer of Workshops - OML Júnior - an Orchestra Stage that during the Easter and Summer holidays promoted the extracurricular training of music students from all over the country, which included the participation of Eunice Muñoz, António Rosado and Camané. Mentor of the project "Helder Moutinho and the Fadistas", project dedicated to Great Fadistas, designed for the Feast of the Fado in 2012, with arrangements of Daniel Schvetz. He founded, in 2012, the FESTIVAL MÚSICA JÚNIOR, an initiative that takes place in the region of Alto Tâmega and that is a reference in the Portuguese musical environment. Since its first edition, has an average of participants of more than 250 young musicians. It had as main guests: Maria João and Mário Laginha, Carlos Moura, Sofia Escobar and Mário Augusto and finally Helder Moutinho.

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