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Eldevina Materula, also known as Kika Materula served as Minister of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Mozambique from January 2020 to January 2025.
Eldevina Materula began her musical studies at the age of 7 at the National School of Music in Maputo (Mozambique). In 1995, already in Portugal, she continued her musical studies and had the first contact with oboe. She finished her degree at ESML in the class of Andrew Swinnerton (oboe), and Olga Prats (Chamber Music). At the Malmö Academy of Music, she finished her post-graduate studies in the class of Professor Bjorn Carl Nielsen. She has performed concerts from North to South of Portugal, as well as in Spain, Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden, Angola, Mozambique, Brazil, among others. In 2001, he won the XVI edition of the Young Musicians Award in the oboe category.
She collaborated as a guest with the Orquestra Clássica da Madeira, Orquestra de Câmara de Cascais e Oeiras, Orquestra Sinfonieta de Lisboa, Orquestra Gulbenkian, Malmö Symphonie Orchestra (Sweden), Malmö Opera Orchestra, Danish Radio Sinfonietta (Denmark), Orquestra Sinfónica da Bahia (Brazil), Kwazulu Natal Philharmonic Orchestra (South Africa) among others.
She played solo with the Chamber Orchestra of Cascais and Oeiras, National Tagus Orchestra, Gulbenkian Orchestra (PJM 2001), Symphony Orchestra of Bahia, Portuguese Chamber Orchestra, Kwazulu Philarmonic Orchestra and with the Johannesburg Festival Orchestra.
As a teacher she worked at the Évora Professional School of Music, the Palmela School of Music, the Neojibá Project (Brazil) and the Costa Cabral Academy of Music. She is a guest teacher at the Neojibá Social Project (Brazil).
She is currently a soloist with the Porto Casa da Música Symphonic Orchestra.
Eldevina Materula, was Artistic Director of the Xiquitsi/Temporada de Música Clássica de Maputo Project since its foundation in 2013, and in May 2016 was awarded the medal of the Order of Merit the Infant D. Henrique by the President of the Portuguese Republic – Professor Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
Source: MITUR
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