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The Portuguese tenor, choral conductor and music teacher, Frederico Projecto, began his musical studies at the age of 8, in the Guitar course at the Conservatório Regional de Setúbal, and in 2006 he entered the Singing course at the Escola de Música do Conservatório Nacional de Lisboa (September 2006-July 2009). In 2011, he graduated in Choral Conducting and Musical Training from the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (2008-2011), where he worked with professors Paulo Lourenço and Vasco Pearce de Azevedo. He studied Orchestra Conducting for three years at the Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra (2011-2016), where he studied with Professor Jean-Marc Burfin.
Frederico Projecto was a member of the Coro Gulbenkian from November 2008 to November 2023, where he had the opportunity to work with conductors such as Esa-Pekka Salonen, John Nelson, René Jacobs, Thomas Hengelbrock, David Afkham, Michel Corboz, Leonardo García-Alarcón, Lorenzo Viotti, among others. He regularly collaborates as a soloist and/or chorister with national and international groups, such as Officium Ensemble, Ensemble Vocal Introitus, Alma Ensemble, Coro Voces Caelestes, Choeur de Chambre de Namur (Director: Jean Tubéry) (Belgium), Cappella Mediterranea (Director: Leonardo García-Alarcón) (Switzerland), Capella Sanctæ Crucis and Les Talens Lyriques (Director: Christophe Rousset) (France), La Grande Chapelle (Spain), among others.
In 2013 and 2014 Frederico Projecto was Assistant Conductor of Choir and Orchestra at the Les Musicales de Grillon Festival in France, part of the Programme Européen Jeunesse en Action (PEJA). Between 2020 and 2022 he was the répétiteur conductor of the TRACTION - Ópera na Prisão (Opera in Prison) project, which had its performances in June 2022 at the Grande Auditório of the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and at the Estabelecimento Prisional de Leiria. He has directed the Orquestra da Escola de Música do Colégio Moderno since September 2017. He has been the conductor of the Grupo Coral Ares Novos since September 2010; the Coro das Nações since May 2021; the Grupo Coral Loureiros since December 2021; and the Choir of the Coro da Assembleia da República since November 2024. He currently lives in Lisbon, Portugal. |
