Teresa Melo Campos (Porto 1988) sings, composes, and directs creative musical projects. She holds a degree in Education with a special interest in Education through Art and completed her Master’s in Music with distinction at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (London). She is interested in the power of traditional music as a social and creative tool and participates in educational projects and collective musical creation mainly in Portugal and France. She has been the artistic leader of Ethno Portugal since 2014, collaborates with Ethno France and Spain, and in 2021 created the Popular Music Choir in Porto. In 2022, she co-created two family shows: “Castōr e Pollūx – considerate lilia,” commissioned by the Municipal Theatre of Porto (in collaboration with Inês Campos), and “Trois voix, quatre saisons,” a project by Jeunesse Musical de France created together with Nils Peschanki and Darragh Quinn (2022). 

As a composer, she collaborates with Nenad Kovačić in creating soundtracks for Croatian dance, theater, and documentary pieces, such as “Amae” (2023), “Mileva” (2021), and “Nora oder Wie man das Herrenhaus kompostiert” (Berlin, 2024), “Dobra Ekonomija” (2022), and “Love around the world” (2021). 

She has collaborated with many renowned musicians and friends, such as José Mário Branco, Retimbrar, A Presença das Formigas, Zelig, Júlio Pereira, Amélia Muge, Mondryaan (London), and Perotá Chingó, Dúo A/R, and Ana Rossi (Argentina). 

Teresa is part of Collado, a project of eight musicians focused on Iberian traditional music. She is a co-founder of the projects Sopa de Pedra, a vocal group of ten women dedicated to collecting, rearranging, and singing a cappella Portuguese music with strong traditional roots, and çhâñt élečtrónïqùe, an international collective of seven musicians from Portugal, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, and Ireland, with the desire to explore the potential of traditional and electronic music.

Sopa de Pedra

Collado

Çhâñt Élečtrónïqùe

Nḗre linum

Presença das Formigas

Mondryaan (Londres)

Duo A/R (Argentina)