BORN IN OVAR, MARIANA ROSAS BEGAN HER MUSICAL STUDIES AT AGE 7 WITH PIANO PROF. EMMA SORÄS. SHE CONTINUED HER STUDIES AT THE ORFEÃO OVAR MUSIC ACADEMY WITH PROF. REGINA RODRIGUES, AND LATER AT THE CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC AVEIRO WITH PROF.S NUNO CAÇOTE AND PATRÍCIA SOUSA - WHERE SHE COMPLETED THE MUSIC COURSE – CLASSICAL PIANO. AT THIS CONSERVATORY, SHE WON INTERNAL INSTRUMENT COMPETITIONS, ATTENDED COMPOSITION CLASSES WITH PROF. PEDRO SANTOS AND WAS A MEMBER OF THE SYMPHONIC BAND (PROF. RICARDO LAMEIRO) AND OF THE JAZZ COMBO (PROF. PEDRO NEVES). SHE ALSO ORGANIZED JAZZ JAM SESSIONS AND COMPOSED AN ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK FOR A SHORT FILM.
MARIANA HAS WON AWARDS IN SEVERAL PIANO COMPETITIONS: INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL COMPETITION “ONLINE SOUND RESONANCES” (2021); SANTA CECÍLIA INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION, 2022; CIDADE DE GAIA NATIONAL COMPETITION, 2023; INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION CIDADE DO FUNDÃO, 2023; PAÇOS’ PREMIUM COMPETITION, 2023). SHE HAS ALSO PERFORMED IN KEYBOARD MARATHONS (CASA DA MÚSICA PORTO, RECTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PORTO, COIMBRA PIANO WEEK) AND ATTENDED IMPROVEMENT MASTERCLASSES WITH PAULO OLIVEIRA, CONSTANTIN SANDU, JILL LAWSON, MARIA JOSÉ SOUZA GUEDES, JAIME MOTA, RASA BIVENIENE, FAUSTO NEVES, PEDRO BURMESTER, MIGUEL BORGES COELHO, SOFIA
LOURENÇO, SHAO LING, AMONG OTHERS. SHE WAS AWARDED AN HONORABLE MENTION IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA COMPOSITION PRIZE “FREEDOM - ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF APRIL 25TH” (2024). IN 2025, AS PART OF THE
“ALONE AT HOME” SESSIONS (OVAR-CULTURA, JÚLIO DINIS MUSEUM), SHE PRESENTED THE SOLO SHOW “FROM VINYL TO STREAMING”, PERFORMING HER ARRANGEMENTS OF A SELECTION OF POP-ROCK-JAZZ-FUSION SONGS FROM THE 60S TO THESE DAYS. IN THE SAME YEAR, SHE ATTENDED THE WORKSHOP “IMPROVISATION IN THE CONTEXT OF JAZZ” WITH SINGER MARIA JOÃO GRANCHA AND JAZZ PIANIST JOÃO FARINHA.
SINCE 2020, SHE HAS REGULARLY WRITTEN ON HER MUSIC BLOG PIANISSIMO (PIANISSIMO.BLOG.COM). SHE ALSO COLLABORATES WITH “RIMAS E BATIDAS” (FT. RUI MIGUEL
ABREU) ON PRESS RELEASES, ALBUM REVIEWS AND SHOWS FOLLOW-UPS, WITH SPECIAL FOCUS ON JAZZ. SHE HAS CONDUCTED POST-CONCERT INTERVIEWS WITH MUSICIANS SUCH AS TIGRAN HAMASYAN, JEFF BALLARD, BEN WENDEL, BAPTISTE TROTIGNON, MARC RIBOT, MARIA JOÃO, MÁRIO LAGINHA, CARLOS BICA, RAO KYAO, ÁBE RABADE, YUMI ITO, VIJAY IYER, RABIH ABOU KHALIL, CARMEN SOUZA, MARIA MENDES, VIRGUL, YAKUSA, JOÃO MARTINS, JOÃO MORTÁGUA,
AMONG OTHERS.
CURRENTLY, SHE IS APPLYING FOR A DEGREE IN COMPOSITION WITH PROF. SARA CARVALHO AT THE UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO, AND PURSUING A DEGREE IN JAZZ PIANO WITH PROF. PEDRO NEVES.
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