Susana Santos Silva


Susana Santos Silva is a Portuguese Jazz and Free improvisation musician.

Biography

Santos studied jazz trumpet at the Music College in Porto until 2008 and then the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe with Reinhold Friedrich, Edward Tarr, Klaus Schuwerk and Klaus Braker, subsequently Jazz Performance at the Rotterdam Conservatory, where she played with Eric Vloeimans, Jarmo Hoogendijk and Wim Both. She played in the Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos, in European Movement Jazz Orchestra and in the Dutch trio LAMA. In 2011 Santos released her debut album Devil's Dress. She is currently working with the bassist Torbjörn Zetterberg and with the ensemble SSS-Q. All About Jazz refers to Santos as one of the most original and articulate voices of European avantgarde jazz and non-idiomatic music.

Discography (in selection)

Solo albums

; Susana Santos Silva Quintet
; With Torbjörn Zetterberg
; With João Pedro Brandão, Hugo Raro, Torbjörn Zetterberg, and Marcos Cavaleiro
; With Torbjörn Zetterberg and Hampus Lindwall
; With Santos Silva/Wodrascka/Meaas Svendsen/Berre
; With Santos Silva/Stadhouders/Almeida/Costa
; With Lotte Anker, Sten Sandell, Torbjörn Zetterberg and Jon Fält
; With The European Movement Jazz Orchestra
; With LAMA
; With SSS-Q
; With De Beren Gieren
; With Fire! Orchestra
; With Kaja Draksler