bianca varela

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Bianca hails from Lisbon, Portugal, and is also Italian. She grew up listening to music, and began singing in choirs at the age of 6. Since then, she was part of Coro Infanto-Juvenil da Universidade de Lisboa, Coro Musaico, Coro Ricercare and many others. Nowadays, she sings professionally with Coro Gulbenkian, Nova Era Vocal Ensemble, ALMA Ensemble, Coro Alto and SAJT Ensemble.

Bianca studied Piano at the National Conservatory of Lisbon until 2019, having then proceeded to study Choral Conducting and Music Pedagogy at Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa. In 2022, she graduated with a first class honours in her BA in General Studies in Music with Kodály Emphasis at the Kodály Institute in Kecskemét, Hungary.

After a year of working as a music teacher and professional choir singer, Bianca is now completing her first year of a new BA in Orchestral Conducting at the Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra in Lisbon.

As a Conductor, she has worked with Csikszerda in Budapest, conducted by Árpád Tóth, is now the Assistant Conductor of Nova Era Vocal Ensemble and Conductor of Choir JubiLis, a German community choir in Lisbon.