Susana Santos Silva

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Susana Santos Silva at the 2016 Moers Festival.
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Susana Santos Silva in Aarhus Denmark 2018.

Susana Santos Silva (born 3 January 1979 in Porto, Portugal) is a Portuguese jazz and free improvisation musician (trumpet, flugelhorn, and flute).

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Biography

Santos studied jazz trumpet at the Music College in Porto until 2008 and then the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe with Reinhold Friedrich, Edward Tarr, Klaus Schuwerk and Klaus Braker, subsequently Jazz Performance at the Rotterdam Conservatory (Diplom 2010), where she played with Eric Vloeimans, Jarmo Hoogendijk and Wim Both. She played in the Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos (inter alia with Lee Konitz, Chris Cheek, Kurt Rosenwinkel and Maria João as guest musicians in CD productions), in European Movement Jazz Orchestra (EMJO Live at Coimbra, Clean Feed Records 2011) and in the Dutch trio LAMA (with Gonçalo Almeida and Greg Smith). In 2011 Santos released her debut album Devil's Dress (Toap). She is currently[ when? ] working with the bassist Torbjörn Zetterberg (Almost Tomorrow, 2013, Clean Feed) and with the ensemble SSS-Q (Songs from My Backyard, 2014). All About Jazz refers to Santos as one of the most original and articulate voices of European avantgarde jazz and non-idiomatic music. [1]

As of 2022 into 2024, Santos is a performing member of the music and dance ensemble ICTUS, based in Brussels, Belgium. [2]

Discography (in selection)

Solo albums

Susana Santos Silva Quintet (Demian Cabaud, Marcos Cavaleiro, André Fernandes, Zé Pedro Coelho)
With Torbjörn Zetterberg
With João Pedro Brandão, Hugo Raro, Torbjörn Zetterberg, and Marcos Cavaleiro
With Torbjörn Zetterberg and Hampus Lindwall
With Santos Silva/Wodrascka/Meaas Svendsen/Berre
With Santos Silva/Stadhouders/Almeida/Costa
With Lotte Anker, Sten Sandell, Torbjörn Zetterberg and Jon Fält

Collaborations

With The European Movement Jazz Orchestra
With LAMA
With SSS-Q (Jorge Queijo)
With De Beren Gieren
With Fire! Orchestra
With Fred Frith
With Kaja Draksler
With Fred Frith Trio

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References

  1. Review of the album Songs from My Backyard, 2014 at AAJ
  2. "Susana Santos Silva". Ictus. Retrieved 2024-03-24.
  3. Sharpe, John (2015-01-22). "Kaja Draksler / Susana Santos Silva: This Love". All About Jazz . Retrieved 2017-11-18.