Mário Costa was born in 1986 in Viana do Castelo and his academic curriculum includes a graduation in jazz by ESMAE, complemented by private lessons and workshops in the USA with several influential jazz musicians. During the last decade the multifaceted work of this drummer and composer, both in jazz (materialized in collaborations with prominent names of this genre such as Tim Berne, Chris Corsano or Wynton Marsalis) as well as alongside pop music figures, such as renowned fado singer Ana Moura, allowed him to achieve a significative reputation in global music. Of his most recent work we may highlight the group sFumato, alongside Émile Parisien, Michel Portal and Joachim Kühn, and the album “Oxy Patina”, released by the Portuguese record label CleanFeed, a project that represented Mário Costa’s debut as leader and composer, and in the context of which he collaborated with epicentral instrumentalists of French contemporary jazz, namely the pianist Benôit Dellbeccq and the guitarist Marc Ducret.

As idiosyncratic musician, permanently positioned on the edges of contemporary creation, Bruno Chevillon is nowadays unanimously considered one the most relevant creators of the European avant-garde jazz movement. The professional trajectory of Chevillon, a former arts student, was decisively influenced by his relation of intense creative complicity with Louis Sclavis and Michel Portal, two unsurmountable names of French jazz, and has unfolded over time through many fruitful collaborations with countless musicians with whom he shares his proclivity to experimentation and to the intersection of aesthetical frontiers, a body of work that is documented in more than fifty discographic editions.

The trumpeter of Vietnamese descent Cuong Vu is a prestigious musician with a wide-spectrum curriculum of collaborations with prestigious artists not only of jazz but also from other musical territories, such as Pat Matheny, Laurie Anderson or David Bowie. Currently residing in New York, Vu has released to this date eight albums under his own name or as leader.

A native of Belgium currently residing in Paris, keyboardist Jozef Dumoulin is recognized for his technical skills and his personal approach to piano and organ, materialized in a creative work expanded through various musical aesthetics. Besides his compositional work solo, Dumoulin’s has authorial projects in the field of jazz, namely the trio The Red Hill Orchestra (alongside Ellery Eskelin and Dan Weiss) and the duo he maintains with Benoît Dellbecq, and his professional curriculum also includes collaborations with great jazz musicians such as, among others, Mark Turner, Michael Brecker or Dave Liebman.

Carlos Azevedo is an arranger, composer and maestro from Vila Real and trained at the Music Conservatory of Porto, at ESMAE, where is currently teaches, and at the University of Sheffield (England). Among his vast work in the musical field, we may highlight the commissions for the National Orchestra of Porto and for the Symphonic Orchestra of Lisbon, among other prestigious institutions of Portuguese classical music. In the field of jazz, he has developed an intense activity as pianist and composer, including compositions and recordings for the Matosinhos Jazz Orchestra and collaborations with the European Youth Jazz Orchestra and the Brussels Jazz Orchestra.