Born in Torres Vedras, Luís Vicente grew up in Lourinhã, where he, similarly to many other musicians of the same generation, began his path in music as a self-taught musician in the context of the local philharmonic band, having subsequently chosen the trumpet as his instrument of preference.  After moving to Lisbon, Vicente got more deeply involved with the musical milieu and enrolled at the Hot Club Jazz School, where he studied jazz in parallel to his academic studies. Since then, this prolific and multifaceted trumpeter has been developing an intense work in different formats and creative contexts, both alongside many of the most prominent names from the broad-spectrum Portuguese music scene (such as Marco Franco, João Pais Filipe or Marcelo dos Reis), as well as in collaboration with great figures of European and North-American jazz (namely Paal Nilsen-Love, Alexander Hawkins, Hamid Drake, William Parker or Tony Malaby, among others). A trumpeter and composer with a clear penchant for trios (the same format that featured his recording debut, in 2012, with the album “Outeiro”), Luís Vicente is engaged with an authorial work in the context of several groups, among which we may highlight, due to its recent activity, the ensemble Chamber 4 (alongside, among others, the virtuoso violinist Théo Ceccaldi) and the jazz-rock band Fail Better!.

Gonçalo Almeida (b. 1978, Lisbon) is a bassist and composer based in Rotterdam, and with a strong presence in the European circuits of improvised and tendentially experimental music. As a musician with a particular focus on the dialogic dimension of music, Almeida holds an impressive curriculum of collaboration with notable names in contemporary jazz, such as, among others, Chris Speed or Fred Longberg-Holm, while at the same time maintaining a constant and effective activity with the musical scenes of Portugal and The Netherlands. In addition to his career as sideman, Gonçalo Almeida develops also relevant authorial work under his own name – both solo as well as accompanied by other musicians, as it is the case of his most recent album “States of Restraint”, recorded with Susana Santos Silva and Gustavo Costa – and in the context of his own formations (the Lama Trio, Albatre and The Selva), being also the founder and main promoter of a digital record label (Cylinder Recordings).

Born in 1991, Pedro Melo Alves is one of the most prominent names of his generation on the Portuguese musical scene of the last ten years, the result of a diversified and ambitious work spread across various musical territories and formats. An award-winning and widely praised drummer and composer, Melo Alves graduated from ESMAE and the Music School of Lisbon and, since completing his studies, he has developed a pertinent body of work between composition and improvisation (essentially marked by the intersection of musical ecosystems, from jazz to classical music, from rock to electronics), while at the same time collaborating regularly and extensively with renowned musicians and formations in contemporary music such as, among others, Joe Morris, Mark Dresser or the Sun Ra Arkestra. Among his authorial projects we may highlight the band The Rite of Trio and the Omniae Ensemble, the latter being originally a septet that in 2020 was converted, at Guimarães Jazz proposal, into an orchestra and whose music gave rise to the highly praised album “Lumina”.

Born in Argentina and currently based in Berlin, Camila Nebbia is a saxophonist, composer, artist and curator with a remarkable creative activity marked by a multidisciplinary and expansive approach to music that mirrors her own unorthodox academic studies spread across the fields of jazz, cinema, dance and contemporary composition. In addition to her work as leader or solo, which resulted in several discographic editions, Nebbia shared the stage and recorded with great figures in contemporary music such as Michael Formanek, Vinnie Sperazza or Angelica Sanchez, and, in parallel to her strictly musical activity, the Argentinian saxophonist is also the co-creator and curator of artistic collectives, festivals and improvised music series.