Luís Vicente

Luis first picked up a trumpet when he decided to participate in a Philarmonic Association. Later he had private classes with Tomás Pimentel.

He attended the Escola de Jazz Luís Villas Boas/ Hot Club de Portugal, where he had the chance to study with João Moreira, Tomás Pimentel, Vasco Mendonça, Afonso Pais, Filipe Melo, Bruno Santos e André Fernandes.​

During these years, he also participated in workshop with musicians such as Mário Laginha, David Binney, Jesse Davis, Evan Parker, Julian Arguelles, Ohad Talmor, André Fernandes, Pedro Madaleno e Phil Grenadier.
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He already played in dozens of venues and festivals in Portugal: Festival Sudoeste; SuperbockSurf Fest; MED Loulé; Andanças; Planície Mediterrânica; Músicas do Mar; Boom Festival; Lisboa Mistura; Festival Cinco Elementos; Hot Club Portugal; Culturgest; Coliseu de Lisboa; Teatro Maria Matos; Santiago Alquimista; Maxime; Fábrica do Braço de Prata; Galeria Zé dos Bois; Chapitô; B-Leza; Musicbox.

He also played in several venues across Europe: Casa das Creches (Santiago de Compostela, Spain); Headphone Festival 2010, Pécs - European Culture Capital, Cokxpôn Café-Theater, Budapest, Hungary; Theater Kapelle, Wendel, Cafe Fincan, Bethanien, Cafe A, Valentin Stuberll, Galeria Arte Vitta, in Berlin (Germany); Klubovna, Praga, Boro Klub, Brno, in Czech Republic; A4, in Bratislava, Slovakia.

He performed and recorded with Tim Conley, Oori Shalev, Reiner Hess, Kaido Yutaka, Bernd Oezsevim, Vinicio Capossela, Jorg Schippa, Paulo Curado, Noriaki Hosoya, Lucia Chutková, Nuno Rebelo, Jonathan Hafner, Marco Franco, Izumi Oze, Carlos Zingaro, João Lobo, Jari Marjamaki, Anna Kaluza, Hoshiko Yamane, Hugo Antunes, Valentin Ceccaldi, Shasta Ellenbogen, Miguel Leiria Pereira, Eduardo Lála, José Ernesto Rodrigues, Pablo Ortega, Francesco Valente, Alex Steh, Thomas Zunk, Ulrich Mitzlaff, Rodrigo Amado, Tó Trips, Gabriel Ferrandini, Luís Lopes, Johannes Krieger, Jorge Moniz, Federico Pascucci, Rui Faustino, Théo Ceccaldi, Luís Desirat.

Currently he plays his own tunes in trio and quartet and he is member of: Vicente/ Marjamaki duo; ​FAIL BETTER!; Frame trio; Clocks and Clouds; Deux Maisons​ and Farra Fanfarra.