António Quintino

With a degree in jazz from the Lisbon Higher School of Music (ESML), and after spending three years at the JBJazz School, António Quintino (b. 1988) studied with musicians such as Nelson Cascais, Pedro Moreira, John Taylor, Lee Konitz, Omer Avital, and Dan Weiss.

In late 2010, he attended the Paris Conservatory, where he studied with Riccardo Del Fra, Larry Grenadier, Billy Hart, and Fred Hersch, among others.

In 2011, he spent time in New York, where he took classes with Matt Penman, Ian Froming, and Joe Martin. He also participated in various workshops, such as the Lisbon Jazz Summer School (2008 and 2010 editions), playing and working with musicians such as Ben Street, Steve Nelson, Danilo Pérez, Rodney Green, and Mulgrew Miller.

In 2011, he received the 2nd Prize ex aequo in the jazz combo category at the Antena 2 Young Musicians Award (in a trio with Daniel Bernardes and Pedro Felgar). That same year, he represented ESML at the S. Luiz Jazz Festival, where he was awarded the Best Instrumentalist Prize. In October 2011, the Hot Clube de Portugal Jazz Orchestra performed his first piece for big band—Tout n’est pas blanc et noir—at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s Grand Auditorium with guest soloists João Mortágua and Susana Santos Silva, under the direction of Pedro Moreira, at the closing ceremony of the Antena 2 Young Musicians Award.