Choir
Consisting of about 50 choir members and instrumentalists, the Choir Alma de Coimbra is conducted by Maestro Augusto Mesquita, author of all the arrangements that the choir sings.
It promotes Portuguese and Portuguese-speaking poets, authors and performers, both in Portugal and abroad. It is accompanied by piano and double bass, and often by violin.
The choir members, who are now scattered throughout the country and the autonomous regions, regularly travel to Coimbra, where they carry out their artistic training, finding in music a space that brings them together and fosters the cultivation of the ideals that have guided their academic life.
Over the course of its 18 years of existence, it has carried out around three hundred concerts all over the country and abroad, having performed in Macau, Timor, the United States, India, Tunisia, Cape Verde, São Tomé, Spain, Belgium, Austria, Italy, the Czech Republic, Ethiopia, Hong Kong, Poland, Chile and Thailand.
Guitar group
The Alma de Coimbra Guitar Group, made up of a Portuguese guitar and a classical guitar, aims to promote instrumental music created for the Portuguese guitar, the Coimbra variant
The Paredes family is inextricably linked to the instrument, with Artur and Carlos Paredes being two of the most important composers/instrumentalists in the history of the Coimbra guitar, whose work has formed the group's main repertoire.
However, Coimbra was a generous cradle for several other authors, including Flávio Rodrigues, João Bagão, António Portugal, Jorge Tuna, Octávio Sérgio or Francisco Martins, whose themes are also revisited.