The Academia Valentim de Carvalho brings the academic year to a close with a concert dedicated to the music of Porto. The programme explores a repertoire characterised by a distinct musicality, bringing to the stage of the Sala Suggia songs that pay tribute to the city and some of its artists: José Mário Branco, Sérgio Godinho, Rui Veloso, Manel Cruz, amongst many others.

Fundado em 1995, o grupo Barbatuques é uma referência mundial da música corporal, com vasta projeção e mais de meio milhão de seguidores nas redes sociais. A sua abordagem singular e inovadora consiste em utilizar o próprio corpo como instrumento principal para a criação de sons e ritmos complexos.

Folefest has made a decisive contribution to promoting the accordion and to contemporary music-making, encouraging the composition of new works and bringing outstanding performers to the fore. In this concert, three young competition winners take to the stage: Vítor Pastor, 1st prize in the solo category and best performer (2026), and Duo Kontrast, winners in the chamber music category (2025).

He is one of the new geniuses of the bass, technically prodigious, highly inventive, brilliant at improvisation and an excellent composer. Chilean Christian Gálvez belongs to the generation of electric bassists from the post-Pastorius era and has a playing style that evokes legendary names of the instrument such as John Patitucci or Stanley Clarke.

A décima sexta edição do Estágio Nacional da Orquestra Sinfónica de Jovens da AMCC encerra na Sala Suggia com um programa que desafia os jovens intérpretes em duas frentes: a estreia de uma obra de Nuno Peixoto Pinho, que os confronta com a criação contemporânea, e a Sinfonia n.º 9 de Dvořák, “Do Novo Mundo”, uma das páginas mais emblemáticas do repertório sinfónico.

A true ambassador for Portuguese culture and language, Cristina Branco explores the more jazz-influenced side of her repertoire in this concert, accompanied by the Matosinhos Jazz Orchestra, a repertoire characterised by collaborations with composers such as Mário Laginha, João Paulo Esteves da Silva, Sérgio Godinho and José Afonso.

30 years as a musician, 30 records released. Nico Guedes presents Thank You, his most recent album of original songs with the Bluebirds, for which he is also making a film.

The encounter between an unconventional oboist and an adventurous symphony orchestra is set to take place at yet another edition of Matosinhos em Jazz. The programme, entitled Oboé Nómada, stems from a desire to blend jazz and classical music on a journey that begins in the Mediterranean.

Scattered throughout the country, philharmonic bands keep alive the tradition...

Scattered throughout the country, philharmonic bands keep alive the tradition...

Depois de 15 anos com o grupo brasileiro 5 a Seco, período que o levou aos palcos mais importantes do país e a uma nomeação para o Grammy Latino, Leo Bianchini atravessou o Atlântico com o intuito de seguir, na Europa, o caminho da improvisação, da canção expandida e das fronteiras abertas do jazz.

In the 19th edition of its festival, Orquestra Nacional de Jovens joins forces with Mercury Falls Band and guest singers to perform a programme entitled “Scorpions Tribute Symphonic Experience”, which proposes a fusion between the symphonic repertoire and the instrumentation and attitude of alternative rock.