{"id":345,"date":"2024-12-08T11:22:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T11:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joaofranciscotavora.com\/?page_id=345"},"modified":"2025-08-29T00:33:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T00:33:40","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/joaofranciscotavora.com\/index.php\/biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"345\" class=\"elementor elementor-345\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-73aff768 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"73aff768\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3d3f47f3 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"3d3f47f3\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8e00cdf e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"8e00cdf\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-60b5e0c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"60b5e0c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Jo\u00e3o Francisco T\u00e1vora\u00a0<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ae5b658 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ae5b658\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following his studies at the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Escola Superior de M\u00fasica e Artes do Espet\u00e1culo<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Porto, and the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Leipzig, Jo\u00e3o Francisco T\u00e1vora embarked on an ambitious career as a soloist, ensemble player and musical director.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His first solo album, with recorder music by G. P. Telemann, is released in April 2025 on Coviello Classics. This debut recording precedes a second solo album containing transcriptions of works by J. S. Bach. Tours with a wide range of ensembles have taken him to Belgium, Brazil, Germany, Finland, Portugal (including the Azores and Madeira) and Spain. Since the 2023\/24 season he has performed regularly with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His long-standing passion for recorder consort is documented by a series of albums of Portuguese Renaissance music as a member of the Arte Minima ensemble, notably CDs of music by Francisco de Santa Maria and Vicente Lusitano.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jo\u00e3o is the founder and co-artistic director of Musurgia Ensemble, dedicated to the interpretation and dissemination of newly rediscovered music from the 16th to 18th centuries. 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