Susana Santos Silva

Susana Santos Silva is a Portuguese trumpeter, improviser and composer, born in Porto in 1979. She works across free jazz, free improvisation and contemporary music, also playing flugelhorn, and has recorded widely for Clean Feed and other independent labels in duos, small groups and large ensembles. Santos Silva studied jazz trumpet in Porto, then at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe and at the Rotterdam conservatory. She has played in the Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos, co-founded the Porto association Porta-Jazz and its label Carimbo, and played in the trio LAMA.