Luís Toscano
From a tender age Luís was a chorister in the \'Coro dos Pequenos Cantores de Coimbra\' in Portugal. He had his formative musical training at the Coimbra Conservatoire under Mafalda Leite and Isabel Melo e Silva, graduating in 2002.
Luís attended choral direction courses with John Roos, Edgar Saramago and Artur Pinho and many workshops in singing and technique. More recently he specialises in the music of the 16th to 18th centuries, having worked under Owen Rees, Graham O\'Reilly, Peter Phillips, Borges Coelho, José Firmino, Vasco Negreiros, Paul Hillier and Laurence Cummings to name a few. He attended workshops with Jill Feeldman (singing), Ketil Haugsand, Peter Holtslag, Rainer Zipperling, Wieland Kuijken e Ana Mafalda Castro (chamber music).
In 2001 Luís obtained his Licentiate Diploma in Economy at Coimbra University, followed by a Licentiate Diploma in Music (2005) at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. In 2009 he concluded his Masters in Music at the Aveiro University under Professor José Abreu and António Salgado, holding a scholarship to research, edit and perform Portuguese music of the 16th-18th centuries.
Since 2000 he is vocal coach for the \'Capela Gregoriana Psalterium\' in Coimbra. He is also a member of the \'Ensemble Vocal Adarte\', \'Vocal Ensemble of Aveiro\' and has co-founded \'La Farsa\' (specialising in the repertoire for voice and plucked strings), with Tiago Matias, having broadcast for RDP-Antena 2. He is a member of the \'Coro Casa da Música\' and one of the artistic directors of \'Coro de Câmara da Universidade de Coimbra\'. He teaches vocal technique at Escola Diocesana de Música Sacra in Coimbra and a collaborator at the Centre for Research in Art Sciences and Technologies.
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