João Moreira, Trumpet João Moreira was born on 11 June 1970 in Lisbon and has been playing the trumpet since the age of 11. He has held a degree since January 1999 in Jazz and Contemporary Music from the New School for Social Research (New York), where he had the opportunity to study counterpoint, atonal theory and composition with Henry Martin, jazz composition and motivic development in improvisation with Richie Beirach, and trumpet with Charles Tolliver and Jimmy Owens. He has performed with various Portuguese musicians (such as Mário Laginha, Maria João and Carlos Barretto) and foreign musicians (Rick Margitza, Bruce Barth, Phil Markowitz, Robert Sadin, Tom Harrel, Tim Hagans, Mark Turner, Ira Coleman, Troy Davis, John Ellis and Sylvia Cuenca). He is currently a member of several ensembles: Pedro Moreira's Septet, Bernardo Moreira's Sextet, Nuno Ferreira's Quintet, Lena d'Água, the Big Band of the Hot Clube de Portugal and the resident orchestra of the Guimarães Jazz Festival. With the latter he has worked with musicians such as Markus Stockhausen, Julian Arguelles, Martin France, Nguyen Lê, Carles Benavente and under the direction of Gianluigi Trovesi, Bob Mintzer, Maria Schneider, Gil Goldstein and Michael Gibbs. Verdes Anos (Carlos Paredes), João Moreira and Ri