Inês Thomas Almeida

Ines Thomas Almeida ( born June 11, 1976 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) is a living in Berlin and Lisbon lyrical singer (mezzo- soprano) and editor of the online magazine Berlinda.org ..

Life and career

Ines Thomas Almeida was born in the Dominican Republic and grew up bilingual in Portugal. She first studied music in Lisbon and graduated with a major in piano from. After that, she studied voice at the University of Évora. During her studies, she has been consecutively awarded as the best student of the University two years.

Then came to Germany and deepened her musical education by studying singing at the Academy of Music and Theatre with Klaus Haeger in Rostock, where she graduated in 2007. In her graduation in 2007 she sang, among others Arias from the opera Orfeo of Orpheus and Eurydice by Christoph Willibald Gluck. During her studies, she appeared in high school productions as a soloist and sang In October 2006, the game of the Orsola in Ermanno Wolf- Ferrari's opera Il Campiello. In addition, she attended master classes with Teresa Berganza, Krisztina Laki, Hanna Schwarz, Jill Feldman, Claudia Eder and Norman Shetler and also appeared in public at singing evenings on, for example, in November 2006, together with the Polish pianist Milena Piszczorowicz at the Dechower Culture Days 2006 Dechow.

2008 she was a prize winner at the International Singing Competition Chamber Opera Schloss Rheinberg and subsequently appeared in several opera productions in Rheinberg lock with. She also appeared in the same year at the " Rheinberger singer Eight " and presented himself to the audience with excerpts from the title role of the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet. She was a fellow of the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now.

In February 2009, she presented at the Palacio Foz in Lisbon as part of a conference organized by the Embassy of the Dominican Republic Culture Week with great success the concert " Poema en forma de canciones " with songs Ibero - American composers. She regularly in Portugal, in the Dominican Republic and in Germany. They not only interpreted the classical art songs of the Iberian space, but also occurs with different fado programs.

In 2011 she founded the online magazine Berlinda.org, which deals with the cultural exchange between Berlin and the Portuguese -speaking world. In this context, it launched in 2012, the festival Berlinda, which a month presented the culture of Portuguese-speaking countries in the fields of literature, film, music and art in Berlin.