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The Portuguese coloratura soprano, Margarida Paulino Pinheiro, began her musical studies as a violinist at the age of 8. She later joined the Instituto Gregoriano in Lisbon, where she had her first contact with singing. In 2014, she completed her Degree in Singing at the Escola Superior de Música in Lisbon (2010-2014). During her brief stay at the Conservatório Nacional, she was a member of the Ensemble Pictórica, a vocal quintet focused on madrigals and polyphony from the 16th and 17th centuries.
Margarida Pinheiro moved to Germany in 2016, where she still resides today, in the city of Berlin. She works regularly with mezzo-soprano Ursula Hesse von den Steinene with conductor and co-repetitor Tim Ribchester.
As a soloist, Margarida Pinheiro played Silvio in the modern premiere of L'Endimione by N. Jommelli (Orquestra Divino Sospiro, conductor Massimo Mazzeo, Palácio de Queluz), Soprano of the Ensemble Soloista in the opera project Ester by A. Leal Moreira, D. Melgaz and Sara Ross (Estúdio de Ópera da ESML, conductor Jan Wierzba, Teatro S. Luiz) and Belinda in H. Purcell's Dido and Aeneas by H. Purcell (ESML, Sílvia Mateus, Teatro S. Luiz and others). She also sang in the A Laureates of Austria Barock Akademie concert at the ORF Radiokulturhaus in Vienna.
Margarida also collaborates in a duo with tenor and guitarist Pedro Matos, focusing much of her work on the interpretation of European and Latin American popular music arrangements written by classical music composers. |
