{"id":18984,"date":"2026-08-26T11:15:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T11:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lab.classicfest.pt\/?post_type=artista&#038;p=18984"},"modified":"2026-08-26T11:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T11:17:17","slug":"sofia-costa","status":"publish","type":"artista","link":"https:\/\/lab.classicfest.pt\/en\/artista\/sofia-costa\/","title":{"rendered":"Sofia Costa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sofia Costa was born in Vila Nova de Gaia and began her musical studies at the age of three. She studied at the Perosinho Music School (Escola de M\u00fasica de Perosinho) and the Porto Music Conservatory (Conservat\u00f3rio de M\u00fasica do Porto), where she received the Madalena S\u00e1 e Costa \/ Porto City Council Award.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She earned her Bachelor\u2019s degree in Percussion from the Porto Higher School of Music and Performing Arts (ESMAE). Currently, she is pursuing her Master\u2019s studies at ESMAE and the School of Applied Arts (ESART).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a percussionist, she has collaborated with the Gulbenkian Orchestra, Drumming GP, the Portuguese Philharmonic Orchestra (Orquestra Filarm\u00f3nica Portuguesa), the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, and the European Union Youth Orchestra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She has worked with conductors such as Susanna M\u00e4lkki, Vasily Petrenko, and Iv\u00e1n Fischer, among others.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She has shared the stage and participated in masterclasses with musicians such as Nuno Aroso, Nick Woud, Vanessa Porter, Christian Dierstein, Gimpas D\u00fao, Viviane Vassileva, and Jean-Fran\u00e7ois L\u00e9z\u00e9.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She has performed in concerts at Casa da M\u00fasica, the S\u00e3o Jo\u00e3o National Theater (Teatro Nacional S\u00e3o Jo\u00e3o), the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UNESCO Paris, the Konzerthaus Berlin, Het Concertgebouw, and the Wolkenturm Grafenegg.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":18985,"template":"","categories":[49],"ano":[58,7],"com-pagina":[],"class_list":["post-18984","artista","type-artista","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pagina_artistas","ano-58","ano-corrente","entry","has-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.classicfest.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artista\/18984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.classicfest.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artista"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.classicfest.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artista"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.classicfest.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.classicfest.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.classicfest.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18984"},{"taxonomy":"ano","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.classicfest.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ano?post=18984"},{"taxonomy":"com-pagina","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.classicfest.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/com-pagina?post=18984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}