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Curriculum Vitae de Maria João

Maria Antunes was born in Porto, Portugal in 1994.

*Education*

Maria started her music studies at ARTAVE – ESCOLA PROFISSIONAL ARTÍSTICA DO VALE DO AVE,( Santo Tirso - Portugal), from 2006-2012. She accomplished the Performer Course - Strings & Keys – 4th Level (High School) & 2nd Level (Basic Education).
She has accomplished her Bachelor Degree in 2015 at Escola Superior de Musica e Artes do Espetáculo and currently, Maria is finishing her last year of Postgraduate Master in Music at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, UK.
Maria is studying the modern viola with Dr. Louise Lansdown and baroque viola with Kate Fawcett.


*Masterclasses*

She played in masterclasses with Louise Lansdown, Tatjana Masurenko, Martin Outram, Mathew Jones, Thomas Riebl, Timothy Ridout, Keneth Martinson, Ryszard Wóyciki, Alicia Marie Valoti, Robin Ireland, Chris Yates, Adam Romer, Aida- Carmen Soanea, Roland Glassl, Margaret Fingerhut, Mathew Sharp, António Saiote, Filipe Quaresma, Stefano Carlini, Yossi Zivoni, Alexei Mijlin, Dimitri Sitkovetsky.


*Chamber Music*

Maria is passionate about Chamber Music and has played alongside leading chamber musicians such as Timothy Ridout, Peggy Nolan and Dimitri Sitkovetsky. Maria is a founder member of Impetus Trio and she has been collaborating with Hermes Ensemble since 2016.
Maria also plays with the baroque ensemble, Ensemble La Notte, formed in early 2018, saw the release of their first CD and three broadcasts on BBC Radio 3, where they were invited to join the BBC Music Introducing scheme and performed at the Proms 2019 BBC Music Introducing Showcase.
Most recently Maria won the First Prize of Lemington Spa Competition, and performed the Dvorak Piano Quintet at Birmingham Symphony Hall.
Maria had the opportunity to play Solo with Orchestra. She played the Premiere “Limb” with Hallam Sinfonia.


*Orchestra Experience*

Whilst her studies, Maria has been working as a freelancer musician. She participated in many orchestral projects, including CBSO Orchestral scheme, Royal Birmingham Ballet Scheme, RBC Symphony Orchestra, Miagi Orchestra, Rococo Revival Baroque Orchestra, and preformed around Europe in many different venues including Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Kozerhaus in Berlin, Elbiphilarmonie in Hamburg, Casa da Musica in Porto, Centro Cultural de Belem in Lisboa, Bozar in Brussels, Yehudi Menuhin in Brussels European Parliament, Birmingham Symphony Hall in Birmingham and Henry Wood Hall London within many different music festivals.


*Music Festivals*

Maria has participated in many festivals such as:
Verbier Festival in Switzerland, Mahler Festival in Italy, Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiel, Young Euro Classic, Immling Festival, Kanglabor Kammermusik Festival, in Germany, Cecil Aronowitz International Viola Competition and Festival In England, Le Fimu Festival in France, Stellenbosch Music Festival and Guimarães Jazz Festival in Portugal.

She worked with amazing conductors such as Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Klaus Mekela, Collin Metters, Michael Seal, Duncan Ward, Christoph König, Jeffrey Skidmore, Jan Zarycki, Luís Machado, Ernest Schelle, Cesário Costa, Emílio de César e António Saiote.


*Teaching Experience*

Maria has been building her career as a Violin, Viola and Orchestra Tutor.
She worked in different schools such as TEMPUS Academy - Portugal (2012-2015); BE SMART ACADEMY - Portugal (2016-2017); MUSICOS D’OURO, Gondomar -Portugal (2016-2017); VALENCA ACADEMY, Valenca - Portugal, (2016-2017);

Maria has been teaching at Arco Project since 2017, where among instrument individual lessons, she has been leading the chamber music distance learning programme. (Arco is pedagogy project that enables students within the strings department of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire to gain vital experience teaching. Weekly individual instrumental lessons, mentoring and string quartet coaching via video conferencing system, ZOOM. Regular events occurring within Royal Birmingham Conservatoire’s String Department, such as masterclasses, workshops and performances are streamed live to South Africa for the benefit of the MICM students. Throughout the year, Arco teachers from the UK travel to South Africa for ARCO festivals - an immersive musical experience, building on and solidifying skills learnt throughout the year.)
Maria works as a violin and viola teacher at Birmingham Services for Education since February of 2020. She is teaching at St. Vincents Primary School, Nishkam High School and Blakesley Hall, all Birmingham based.


Languages & IT Skills

Portuguese – Native speaker | English – Fluent speaker
Music & Composition Software - Sibelius, Finale, MuseScore, Audacity, iMovie, ProTools
Microsoft Office tools - Word, Excel, Power Point, Publisher