Ethno Spain

Beatriz Rola is a musician, creator and workshop leader. She graduated in music from the Royal Academy of Music and studied Music Leadership at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She also took improvisation and jazz singing lessons.
She played and sung in different creative contexts and enjoys developing collaborative creative work in community settings.
Currently collaborates as an artistic educator and musical director with the educational service of Casa da Música, creating workshops and shows for babies and children, and is one of the artistic directors of Orquestra de Familias de Matosinhos. She works regularly with choirs, a space where she has the opportunity to explore new sounds, arrange and compose collectively.
She plays and sings in the band Retimbrar, which has its roots in Portuguese traditional music and rhythms; in tangente, released its debut album “Poemografias” in 2022 and Kalea trio – an improvisation contemporary group.
Recently, she started composing music for theatre and dance shows.

Juan de la Fuente Alcón (Madrid, 1982) trained as a percussionist at the Escuela de Música Creativa in Madrid. Since then he has specialized in traditional music, curious to explore the rhythmic repertoire of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America, as well as the influences of African and Eastern rhythms, and in working with groups, interested in the collective potential that this suggests and facilitates.

He has led several percussion ensembles, as part of artistic, creative and educational projects where the diversity of knowledge, cultures and paths can serve as a stimulus to musical creation and sharing, including Ethno Catalonia and Ethno Portugal (Associação PedeXumbo) and Acorde Maior (Village Underground). He produced and played with Martina Quiere Bailar (Madrid), with original compositions for folk dance, strongly influenced by traditional music from Central Europe and Iberia, and is currently working with Sete Lágrimas, an ancient music group, with Fado Violado, on a journey between the Fado and Flamenco, and with singer-songwriter Aníbal Zola.

In 2017, he founded the Ensemble of Ethnic Percussion in Porto.

Tiago Candal, born in Porto in 1993, is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and sound technician. Plays portuguese and european traditional music, composes music for theatre and dance shows and, as a sound technician, works in live sound, recording, mixing and mastering.
He has been participating in Ethnos for some years and has developed a special taste for the exchange of traditional music in the plural and diverse contexts that this program provides. Likes to play around with computers and creating electronic instruments which he later mixes with their acoustic counterparts.
He is addicted to learning and feels delighted to teach.

Ana Conceição, 1991, Porto, Portugal.
A singer from an early age, she began studying the cello and music in Paços de Brandão, attending EPME, where she had lessons with Raquel Andrade and Romain Garioud, and graduating as an orchestral instrumentalist from ANSO, where she was a pupil of Paulo Gaio Lima. She took part in the Musical Entertainers Training course and had jazz singing lessons with Mariana Vergueiro and Fátima Cerro. Today she is a student in the Porto Ethnic Percussion Ensemble and a member of the Popular Music Choir, from the same city.
She has played and worked with Toques do Caramulo, Daniel Pereira Cristo, Júlio Pereira, Uxía, Xabier Días, Coro Lira, April Marmara, Manuel Cruz, Teatro do Frio, Ballet Teatro school, among others. She has performed on stage in various venues in Portugal, as well as in Spain, France, Germany and Hong Kong. She co-founded the project What You Want and works regularly with the Casa da Música Education Service and the Orquestra Jazz Matosinhos, in the Orquestra de Famílias community project, where she takes on an artistic leadership role. He also collaborates with EthnoWorld, having taken part in Ethno Portugal, France and EthnoFonik.