mano

Elmano Coelho was born in Vila Franca de Xira - Portugal on November 25, 1982.Elmano is graduated in Saxophone in High school of Music Lisboa......... In the last years, he attended many Workshop with Victor Santos, Jose Massarrão, Pierric Leman, Stephane Laporte, Joel Batteau, Henk Van Twillert, Jean-Yves Formeau, David Binney, Massimiliano Donninelli and Ohad Talmor....Since 2003 is Professor at the Santa Cecília Musical Academy, Santarem Conservatory and Lisbon Metropolitan Conservatory . He is a founding member of LisbonUndergroundMusicEnsemble (Lume BigBand), and Lisboa Saxophone Quartet (Cutsax).... He was part in 2003Tour of Portugal Youth Jazz Big Band... In Addition Elmano has performed with Orchestra Of The Gulbenkian Fundation, Cascais and Oeiras Chamber Orchestra, Reunion Big Jazz Band, Claus Nymark Big-Band, ToraToraBig-Band and Big-Band do Hot-Club, Paulo de Carvalho, Carlos do Carmo, Fernando Tordo, Carlos Mendes, amongst others, having also participated in several televison programs and Musical Theatre in the last four years.... He is a member of the European Movement Jazz Orchestra..... Toured in England, Germany, Spain, Croatia, Austria, Slovenia, Angola, Luxembourg and Switzerland.... Elmano Coelho nowadays lives in Lisbon, and is currently playing as a freelancer in a number of projects, and proceeds his studies with Pedro Moreira in Lisbon’s Hot Club jazz school.