Artists
Mário Laginha
Biography
Mário Laginha is regarded as one of the most talented and innovative Portuguese musicians.
Pianist and composer, he has been awarded several prizes and has been invited to many national and international festivals.
He has played and recorded with Wayne Shorter, Ralph Turner, Manu Katché, Trilok Gurtu, Toninho Horta, Gilberto Gil, Julian Argüelles, Django Bates, and the Hannover Philharmonic Orchestra, among many others. [more]
"Espaço" - Mario Laginha Trio
Commissioned by the Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2007, “Espaço” is more than a wonderful jazz piano trio record.
Architecture is the motive sustaining this geometric but organic music:
the idea of regular and irregular structures, continuous and discontinuous lines, plane or distorted surfaces, space and absence of space is transferred to the sound world, resulting in a unique opus about form and its contradictions.
"Canções & Fugas" - the solo album
Mário Laginha's solo album, Canções & Fugas (songs and fugues), was released on April 3 2006.
"Canções e Fugas" was premiered in the grand auditorium at Culturgest.
Since then, Mário Laginha has been presenting it all over Portugal.