About

Clara Saleiro, flutist, loves the constant new experiences and challenges that music brings to her life. She’s interested in the creative process of pieces and performances, the possible interactions between interpreter and composer and between music and other artistic areas, the symbiosis with electronic music and digital technology, and the interpretation of notated music as well as improvisation.

Clara Saleiro is regularly invited to collaborate with orchestras, ensembles and in different chamber formations, ranging from classical to contemporary repertoire, with exploratory and improvised music groups, as well as with dance and circus companies. She debuts every year dozens of pieces from composers with whom she works directly and participates at several international music festivals.

Founding member of Noviga Projekto (AT) and the duo Clara Saleiro & Mariana Dionísio (PT), flutist of the ensembles Vertixe Sonora (ES), Barcelona Modern (ES), SUPERNOVA (PT), Concrète [Lab] (PT), of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (CH), Pedro Melo Alves’ Omniae Large Ensemble (PT), Companhia Coração nas Mãos (PT).

Clara began to play the flute when she was eight years old at Academia de Música S. Pio X de Vila do Conde, in her hometown in Portugal. Throughout her musical career she studied at renowned institutions of Portugal such as Artave, ANSO-Metropolitana and Universidade de Aveiro. Additionally, she completed a master’s degree at Royal Academy of Music in London, specialized in contemporary music at the flute studio of Stephanie Wagner (Remix Ensemble), completed postgraduate studies in contemporary music at Kunstuniversität Graz (Austria), with the Klangforum Wien, and was part at the Lucerne Festival Academy (Switzerland). Furthermore, she studied improvisation with João Grilo and Mané Fernandes.

The current season includes her participation in an artistic residency in Lille; at the festivals Circular, Create Culture Eco, FIMPV, Fluctuations, ISCM WNMD, Kultursommer Wien, Tampere Jazz Happening, as well as concerts in Austria, Finland, France, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain.

Updated: April 2025