About us

We are a female ensemble based in Berlin. We provoke and defy worn-out mundane concepts.

Our main focus is you, the audience, and we want to be your vehicle of expression, through a multidisciplinary and intimate experience that appeals to all the senses. Through the synergy of voice, piano and scenography, we highlight the human aspects of the art created: the space between the dichotomies of life.

The current ongoing projects are “Alma, Vida e Coração” and “Kurt Weill im Licht”.

Artists

Margarida Pinheiro

Margarida studied classical singing at the University of Music in Lisbon. Her curiosity and interest in exploring music and its special colours and corners led her to move to Germany, where she met her second love: Old Jazz and Blues, in the art of music and dance.

She feels at home finding new ways to combine different performative art forms and musical genres, especially in collaborative and collective settings, which has been the main focus of her recent professional work.

As well as performing, Margarida also teaches singing and is the director of the women's choir "Havel-Chorifeen".

Inês Pinto

Inês Pinto is a Portuguese soprano based in Berlin. She completed her Bachelor's degree in Singing and her Master's in Music Pedagogy at the University of Évora, Portugal. Currently, she works as a freelancer throughout Europe performing regularly with Berliner Schlosskonzerte and im Frauenland Ensemble, and collaborating with the Portuguese guitarist Márcio Silva. Since 2021, Inês has been privately studying with Abbie Furmansky and runs her own private singing studio in Berlin.

Soprano

Soprano

Maria João was born in Lisbon and started having piano lessons at 7 years old. In 2013 she finished her Bachelor in Music Theory and Choral Conducting in Lisbon. Since then she grew an interest in Chamber Music so she decided to study Piano Pedagogy based on the Kodály Concept, in Hungary, while having chamber music lessons. After that she emigrated to Germany to study Piano for Chamber Music and Accompaniment in Leipzig, having finished her studies in 2020. After having worked in diferent music schools in Portugal and Germany, she based her own music studio in Leipzig, where she teaches piano and music theory on a daily basis until today.

Besides teaching she's occasionaly part of projects and plays concerts mainly in Portugal and Germany with diferent ensembles and singers.

Maria João Maia

Pianist

The Japanese pianist Nanami Nomura studied at the Aichi University of the Arts and the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, specializing in Lied interpretation under Prof. Wolfram Rieger. Based in Berlin, she works as a freelance pianist, collaborates regularly with various choirs, and has been a lecturer for vocal accompaniment at the Berlin University of the Arts since 2022.

Nanami Nomura

Guest Pianist