Yes, she is one of the best voices in Portugal nowadays.
Check her at the final of the 1st Lyric Singing Contest held by the Portuguese Rotary Foundation, where she got the 2nd place plus the public prize:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ioTfbAJ0nQ
and also from the same contest:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKYHUzrUM4Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyrtc_rZtqI
I meet Cátia in the symphonic choir Lisboa Cantat, where I’ve been singing since the end of 1999… unfortunately, she left the choir a long time ago and I myself have been absent for over a year now, first to finish my MSc thesis and then because I’ve moved to the UK…
I’ve been singing all my life, first with my mother, my older brother being a very special listener, and then in a few choirs. I don’t really like singing alone, but I love the choir effect – not just many people singing at the same time, but singing different things together.
In my hometown I grew up with the Eborae Music Association, first in the children’s choir, then the youth choir and finally the polyphonic choir. This Association was created to bring back to knowledge and increase awareness of the 17th century Évora Cathedral Music School and has now become the Regional School of Music.
http://eborae-musica.org/
When I moved to Lisbon to begging my undergraduate studies I took part, for a couple of year, of the recently revived choir of my university – Universidade Técnica de Lisboa.
http://www.utl.pt/page.aspx?idCat=132
Then came an opportunity to sing the Carl Orf’s Carmina Burana with Lisboa Cantat, indeed a very special concert in a very special place… and I haven’t quit them since then. This allowed me to sing big master pieces: Mozart’s, Verdi’s, and Braham’s Requiem, as well as one from a Portuguese author – Eurico Carapatoso; Haydn’s The Creation; Prokofiev’s Oktober Cantata; part of Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances; Portuguese folk songs arranged by Lopes-Graça and Carrapatoso; and many more.
http://www.lisboacantat.com/
Check her at the final of the 1st Lyric Singing Contest held by the Portuguese Rotary Foundation, where she got the 2nd place plus the public prize:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ioTfbAJ0nQ
and also from the same contest:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKYHUzrUM4Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyrtc_rZtqI
I meet Cátia in the symphonic choir Lisboa Cantat, where I’ve been singing since the end of 1999… unfortunately, she left the choir a long time ago and I myself have been absent for over a year now, first to finish my MSc thesis and then because I’ve moved to the UK…
I’ve been singing all my life, first with my mother, my older brother being a very special listener, and then in a few choirs. I don’t really like singing alone, but I love the choir effect – not just many people singing at the same time, but singing different things together.
In my hometown I grew up with the Eborae Music Association, first in the children’s choir, then the youth choir and finally the polyphonic choir. This Association was created to bring back to knowledge and increase awareness of the 17th century Évora Cathedral Music School and has now become the Regional School of Music.
http://eborae-musica.org/
When I moved to Lisbon to begging my undergraduate studies I took part, for a couple of year, of the recently revived choir of my university – Universidade Técnica de Lisboa.
http://www.utl.pt/page.aspx?idCat=132
Then came an opportunity to sing the Carl Orf’s Carmina Burana with Lisboa Cantat, indeed a very special concert in a very special place… and I haven’t quit them since then. This allowed me to sing big master pieces: Mozart’s, Verdi’s, and Braham’s Requiem, as well as one from a Portuguese author – Eurico Carapatoso; Haydn’s The Creation; Prokofiev’s Oktober Cantata; part of Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances; Portuguese folk songs arranged by Lopes-Graça and Carrapatoso; and many more.
http://www.lisboacantat.com/
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