The Choir
Lisbon Community Choir (LCC) is an English speaking choir founded by Rosie Brown in November 2017, which aims to bring together singers from all over the world, with and without singing experience, to celebrate the magic of music and interculturalism!
Our repertoire is varied, including pieces from several genres, like rock, pop, jazz and even classical music, from well-known songwriters such as Michael Jackson, Bonnie Tyler, Toto, among many others.
Rehearsals take place every week, on Mondays, at Mercado de Culturas, from 8p.m. to 10:00 p.m. and we have some concerts throughout the year. In 2018, we participated in the Lisbon Summer Choirs Festival, which hosted national and international choirs. We also participated in OnStage festival in 2019 and, most recently, in World Choral Expo, Sep 2022.
We are a very young group,
full of enthusiasm and eager to grow!
The Conductor
Alberto Araújo (Portugal, 1996) started his musical studies at the age of 6 at the Conservatório de Guimarães, in piano and choral singing. In 2015, he studied at the Kodály Institute of the Liszt Academy of Music, in Kesckamét, Hungary, as an Erasmus student and returned in 2017 to complete the Diploma in Advanced Choral Conducting with Péter Erdei. In 2016, he finished the bachelor degree in Choral Conducting and Music Education at Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (ESML). At this moment, Alberto is taking the Music Teaching masters program at ESML.
He is currently teaching Music Education and Music Initiation at Academia de Música do Colégio de S. Tomás and at Academia Vocal Lisboa Cantat. He is one of the trainers of the project “Música nas Escolas” organized by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and an artist/animator of the “Mu-se Programme” organized by Yehudi Menuhin Association in Portugal.
He is the conductor of Lisbon Community Choir and Coro do Hospital Fernando da Fonseca. He is also assistant conductor of Coro Sinfónico Lisboa Cantat.
