28/11/2019
HUGO GAMBOIAS, DIOGO PASSOS (Portugal)
HUGO GAMBOIAS
Hugo Gamboias was born in Coimbra, on May 23rd 1988. He began his studies in Portuguese guitar, at the Escola de Guitarra, Viola e Fado of Coimbra, with professor Ricardo Dias. The following year he continued his studies in the Coimbra’s Academic Association and began to accompany some of the city’s fado most celebrated performers. Hugo Gamboias is inspired by the music of Carlos Paredes, the greatest exponent of Portuguese guitar, example and technique of Coimbra. In 2012, he started his collaboration with the cultural association Fado ao Centro, where he is currently one of the resident musicians. After completing his master’s degree, he joined the Music course at Coimbra’s Superior School of Education, to explore and deepen his theoretical knowledge.The following year he joined the punk rock band Fitacola, where he has been playing electric guitar and in 2015, the project Pensão Flôr, taking the roots of the Portuguese guitar to other musical adventures, going through fado, tango, bossa nova and morna. He also began teaching Portuguese guitar at the Fado ao Centro Music School where he currently is the coordinator.During the year of 2017, he participated in Pedro Caldeira Cabral’s masterclass Acerca da Cítara Portuguesa, where he debut the original theme Variações Sob Memórias Perdidas. In the same year he began studying the Lisbon style of the Portuguese guitar with master Custódio Castelo.Throughout his musical career, in collaboration with Fado ao Centro, he has taken Coimbra’s fado and its music to the biggest concert halls in Portugal and around the world with performances Spain, French, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland and Brazil. Simultaneous to his education, Hugo participated in several Coimbra’s Fado CDs, where he contributed with original soundtracks with instrumental music and for voice. In 2018, he wasinvited to participate in the soundtrack of the film Pedro e Inês. In 2019, he began to prepare his own CD, which brings together the original instrumental themes he composed over ten years.Hugo Gamboias will perform with Diogo Passos who will accompany him on the Classical Guitar.
DIOGO PASSOS
Diogo Passos was born in Porto, on 9th 1991. By the age of 9 he started his musical education learning the Piano at Centro Cultural Musical in Santo Tirso, where he finished the 3rd degree. Then he started to study the Classical Guitar at the same institution under the guidance of Professor Óscar Flecha, where he finished the 6th degree. He attended the masterclasses of Dejan Ivanovic, Joaquin Clerch, Joaquim Santos Simões and Miguel Carvalhinho. He also studied with Amadeu Magalhães and Rui Poço Ferreira. Nowadays he’s a student at the Masters in Musical Teaching at Escola Superior de Artes Aplicadas (ESART) from Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco (IPCB), where he also proceeds his guitar studies with Miguel Carvalhinho and João Tiago Correia.In 2014 he finished his Bachelor in Music (special context option) at Escola Superior de Educação from Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra.During his 1st Bachelor period (2011-2014) he was Artistic Director of Estudantina Universitária de Coimbra, founded Grupo de Fado Canto da Noite and was also a member of Grupo de Cordas da Secção de Fado da Associação Académica de Coimbra. Also during the same period he performed in many special academic ocasions such Serenata da Festa das Latas e Imposição de Insígnias (2011, 2012, 2013) and Serenata Mounumental (2012, 2013, 2014); he toured at EUA, Kosovo, Poland, Sao Tome and Prince, Spain, United Kingdom; he recorded the a CD “ComTradições” (2012) and was the Artistic Director of the show “Concerto para Coimbra” (2014).He recorded the CD “Coimbra Abril: Fados em Canções” of António Dinis that was distinguished with Prémio Edmundo Bettencourt in 2015. He also recorded and produced the CD “Margens da Noite” (2018) from the same author.In 2019 he finished his Bachelor in Music (Instrument option – Classical Guitar) at ESARTfrom IPCB. In his last year of bachelor he had the function of university monitor at ESART.He was involved in musical community projects at Hospital Psiquiátrico Sobral Cid, where he worked in partnership with the occupational therapy service from that institution.He performed alongside names as Né Ladeiras, Janita Salomé, Vitorino.He works actively in the defense and promotion of Coimbra’s Song, performing weekly at different places of the city of Coimbra, nationally and worldwide. In 2018 he toured in EUAwith Coro dos Antigos Orfeonistas da Universidade de Coimbra and Italy with Grupo de Fado Canto da Noite.
