Susana Santos Silva

Susana Santos Silva is a Portuguese jazz and free improvisation musician.

Biography

Santos studied jazz trumpet at the Music College in Porto until 2008 and then the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe with Reinhold Friedrich, Edward Tarr, Klaus Schuwerk and Klaus Braker, subsequently Jazz Performance at the Rotterdam Conservatory, where she played with Eric Vloeimans, Jarmo Hoogendijk and Wim Both. She played in the Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos, in European Movement Jazz Orchestra and in the Dutch trio LAMA. In 2011 Santos released her debut album Devil's Dress. She is currently working with the bassist Torbjörn Zetterberg and with the ensemble SSS-Q. All About Jazz refers to Santos as one of the most original and articulate voices of European avantgarde jazz and non-idiomatic music.
As of 2022 into 2024, Santos is a performing member of the music and dance ensemble ICTUS, based in Brussels, Belgium.