Biography
As an organist her main fields of interest are Early Music and Music Performance Studies, with particular emphasis on the Iberian organ heritage. Célia completed her organ degree graduated at Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (2008). She followed her studies with a Master's degree in Music, specializing in Organ, at the University of Évora (2010). She studied at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen in Germany between 2010 and 2012 with Harald Vogel, Hans Davidsson and Edoardo Bellotti, in Historical Interpretation, specializing in Organ, having simultaneously received a scholarship from the Universidade de Évora. She was a guest student in 2011 at the Eastman School of Music in the United States. Célia completed his Masters in Music Teaching at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (2017).
Alongside her teaching activity, she has performed in solo recitals, with orchestra and with vocal/instrumental groups in Portugal, Italy, Germany, England and the United States. She was invited by the Instituto Camões and the Consulate General of Portugal in Manchester to perform an organ recital in the Cathedral of this city, as part of the celebrations on the Portuguese National Day 2018. Between 2016 and 2018 she was invited to perform commented recitals with the aim to value the pipe organ heritage of Mafra. She was artistic director of Ciclo In'Musica in 2019, a cycle dedicated to baroque music held at Palácio de Mafra. Under the authority of Turismo do Patriarcado de Lisboa/Signinum, she was an organist in the Lunchtime Recitals project (2017-2020) at the Igreja da Conceição Velha in Lisbon, in which he performed commented recitals valuing the Portuguese and European organ repertoire. Collaborates with the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra at the São Carlos National Theatre. She is currently undertaking a PhD in Historical Musical Sciences at Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
Doctoral Project
Title
Livro de Obras de Órgão de Fr. Roque da Conceição: portuguese organ repertoire from the 17th century
Advisor
Abstract
This project aims to produce a new critical edition of the manuscript P-Pm MM43, Livro de Obras de Órgão de Fr. Roque da Conceição. It is hoped that a more in-depth analysis of this repertoire in its historical and interpretative contexts will allow its reintegration into the organ repertoire and bring new perspectives on Portuguese organ music in the 17th century.
Funding: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (2023.00377.BD)
AdvisorAbstractThis project aims to produce a new critical edition of the manuscript P-Pm MM43, Livro de Obras de Órgão de Fr. Roque da Conceição. It is hoped that a more in-depth analysis of this repertoire in its historical and interpretative contexts will allow its reintegration into the organ repertoire and bring new perspectives on Portuguese organ music in the 17th century.Funding: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (2023.00377.BD)Research Group: Historical and Cultural Studies in Music