ANDREA MOREIRA 2nd violin, vocals
Andrea Moreira was born and grew up in Salzburg, Austria. She completed the Violin and Professional Music Teaching Course at the 'Mozarteum' University of Music and Arts in Salzburg where she began to dedicate herself predominantly to chamber music, the enlargement of her vocal repertoire and to teaching the violin.
Her interest in foreign languages and different musical cultures and styles gives her great versatility and a large and varied vocal repertoire. She sings in nine different languages with various different style chamber groups, from duo to larger ensembles.
Her repertoire reaches from classical Kurt Weill/ Bert Brecht songs and French Chansons to Jazz, Bossa Nova, Forro, Tango, Klezmer and to Romanian and Russian Gypsy Folk songs.
She is the violinist and singer of the Ruby Tango Project Quintet and member of the Sabiá Quartet. With this group she has enjoyed an intense international concert schedule and made many CD recordings.
She has been living in Porto, Portugal since 1994 and teaches the violin at Porto's Conservatory of Music.