Mané Fernandes is a guitarist, composer and improviser based on Porto and Copenhagen. After studying jazz at ESMAE (Porto) and at the Copenhagen Conservatory, Mané began to create his own music influenced, besides jazz and improvised music, by beat music and the boom bap of the 1990’s. To this date, Fernandes released three albums under his own name, among them the most recent “ENTER THE sQUIGG”, and in parallel the guitarist collaborates with several prominent jazz Portuguese musicians such as João Barradas, Pedro Melo Alves, João Mortágua and Rita Maria.

Born in the United States of America, Brittanie Brown is a dancer and choreographer graduated at the prestigious Julliard School, in New York. Throughout her years of artistic activity, Brown has worked with important names of contemporary dance, such as William Forsythe and Stijn Celis, and since 2019 she has been pursuing a freelance artistic activity that allows her to explore her own creations and projects.

Mariana Dionísio is a vocalist, improviser and composer of contemporary music with formal classical education and studies in jazz. Besides her work solo or as guest in other projects, Dionísio maintains a regular activity in several duos: the band LUMP with trumpeter João Almeida, the duo with flautist Clara Saleiro devoted to the interpretation of pieces composed by living authors, the partnership with drummer João Lopes Pereira and the voice duet with Leonor Arnaut. In parallel, she conducts a vocal ensemble of singers with whom she explores improvisation and the interpretation of contemporary music.

A native of Braga, Sofia Sá is a vocalist and composer currently residing in Copenhagen in the context of an artistic collective. With a diversified education that included studies of classical piano, jazz, chant and multimedia art, Sofia Sá has been pursuing a work both solo as in collaboration with, among others, artists Adriana João and Sara Ribeiro, with whom she recorded the album “Do acaso”. In parallel, the vocalist and composer is also involved in artistic education, having participated in pedagogic projects promoted by the Matosinhos Jazz Orchestra.

Vera Morais, a native of Porto and based in Amsterdam, studied classical music at the Conservatory of Porto, and jazz at ESMAE and the Conservatory of Amsterdam. Her artistic efforts are mainly centered on the intersection between composition and improvisation, as well as in the exploration of the instrumental nature of voice. Some of Vera Morais’ most recent works include the duo with saxophonist Hristo Goleminov and the interdisciplinary project “Gesture Within a Frame”. In parallel to her strictly artistic activity, Vera Morais is also the director of the Queer Choir Amsterdam.

With a formal education in piano and musical composition, João Grilo descbribes himself as “musician, composer and poet” whose work is focused on the relation of music with other artistic forms of expression, materialized in collaborations with filmmaker Miguel C Tavares and choreographer Inês Campos, among others. Within the field of music, Grilo has worked with important Portuguese jazz musicians such as Demian Cbaud, Marcos Cavaleiro or João Hasselberg, and has released to this date two albums of his own original compositions.