cultural project manager
Ana Carolina Capitão
Born in Esposende, in recent years she has developed an intense activity as manager of some of the most innovative and internationally recognized cultural projects in Portugal and abroad.
She is the co-founder and manager of Orquestra da Costa Atlântica - a music and culture association, and is responsible for the organization's various activities, such as the Orquestra da Costa Atlântica, the Portel International Music Festival and the International Academy of Orchestra Conducting.
She is co-founder and manager of the Eklética Cultural Association.
Since 2016 she has been Co-Artistic Director and Conductor of the Esposende Senior Choir, a project awarded by BPISeniores 2016.
He has been responsible for organizing orchestral conducting masterclasses in Portugal, Italy, Japan and Taiwan since 2015.
Founder and Executive Director of the National Wind Orchestra Internship in Esposende, which took place in 2013 and 2014. She was co-founder and executive director of the Atlantic Coast International Music Festival in 2016 and 2017, a project awarded the EFFE seal of artistic quality.
She has a degree in clarinet from ESMAE, in the class of Professor Nuno Pinto, and completed her master's degree with professionalization in music teaching at the Catholic University of Porto with Magna cum laude distinction. She taught clarinet at the Chaves Academy of Arts between 2008 and 2010 and at the Esposende Music School between 2007 and 2018.
She studied orchestral conducting with conductor Luis Miguel Clemente at the Center for Wind Orchestra Conducting Studies. Between 2009 and 2014 she was conductor of the Belinho Music Band and pedagogical director of the Belinho Music Training Center. In 2012, she received an honorable mention in the Orchestra Conducting Competition, as part of the National Wind Orchestra Internship - Portel, and in 2013, she was awarded 1st place in the same competition.
She took part in music therapy training with Márcia Vasconcelos and Liliana Ferreira.
She has professional training in the areas of Management of Cultural Organizations and Projects and Project Management and Application Writing, certified by Suggestus .
She attended the online course "Digital marketing: an asset in culture?" with Catarina Medina.
In 2019, she completed a postgraduate degree in Creative Industries Management at the Portuguese Catholic University - Porto.