Joana Raposo

Joana Raposo (born in Minde, Santarém, Portugal on October 25, 1984) is a Portuguese choir conductor.

Biography
She finished the 8th degree of guitar at the Jaime Chavinha Music School, Minde, and went on to study at the Professional Music School of Almada, where she studied, among others, with the well-known guitar players Dejan Ivanovic and Júlio Guerreiro. She finished her graduate studies in Choral Conducting at the Superior School of Music of Lisbon (ESML) in 2007, where she worked with conductors Vasco Azevedo and Paulo Lourenço, among others. In 2008 she got admitted at the post-graduation in Children Studies - Musical Education, at the Institut of Children Studies (IEC) at the Minho University (Braga), where she works in a thesis about the music for children for children's choir and piano of the important portuguese composer Sérgio Azevedo (b. 1968). Joana Raposo attended also several master-classes with Edgar Saramago, Dejan Ivanovic and Maurizio Padovan, among others. She is the founder and conductor of the children choirs "Nossa Senhora da Encarnação do Espinheiro" (Espinheiro) and "Dó-Ré-Mi" (Alcanena), and teaches at the Conservatório de Música Jaime Chavinha (Minde), and at the Conservatório Regional de Cascais. Joana Raposo premiered several works by composer Sérgio Azevedo dedicated to her, the more important beeing Uma pequena Cantata de Natal (2005), played in Minde in January 2006, and Natal do Menino (2007), performed also in Minde at Christmas Eve of 2007. besides these two works for children's choir and instrumental ensemble, she premiered several other works for choir and piano and adult choir, like the Madrigal V, from the 6 Madrigais on poems of Fernando Pessoa, by the same composer, at the ESML, in 2006. apart from her activities as conductor and teacher, Joana Raposo often colaborates with AVA - Edições (editions-ava.com) drawing the covers and ilustrations of children's pieces. Due to her work with composer Sérgio Azevedo, one of the most well-knwon portuguese composers of his generation, and the quality of her work with children's choirs, Joana Raposo is becoming one of the most active and proeminent portuguese children's choirs conductors.

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