António Quintino

António Quintino was born in 1988 and raised in a rather musical family, despite the fact there were no professional musicians in it. He taught himself to play the guitar and accordion, which I played on occasion with his father. In 2004, Quintino started to play the electric bass at JB Jazz School, in Lisbon, with the teachers Gustavo Roriz and Francesco Valente, and the next year decided to take up the acoustic bass and studied with Yuri Daniel, Nuno Alan, and Demian Cabaud. He later enrolled at the Superior School of Music of Lisbon (ESML), studying with musicians such as Pedro Moreira, Nelson Cascais, Afonso Pais and Bernardo Moreira, and taking masterclasses from the likes of John Taylor, Lee Konitz, Dan Weiss and Ohad Talmor. António Quintino represented his school in various occasions, particularly at the S.Luiz Jazz Fest where I got the Outstanding Musician Award, in 2011. During this study he spent a period of time abroad, first at the Conservatoire National Supérieure de Musique et de Danse de Paris, where he worked with such musicians as Fred Hersch, Billy Hart, Larry Grenadier, Anders Jormin, Riccardo Del Fra and Dre Pallemaerts, and later in New York City, taking private lessons with Matt Penman, Joe Martin, Ian Froming and Ben Street. Throughout the years he also got the opportunity to participate in numerous workshops and masterclasses, playing and learning with people such as Danilo Perez, Mulgrew Miller and Steve Nelson. On October 8th 2011 he got his first big band piece "Tout n'est pas blanc et noir" with the Hot Clube Jazz Orchestra at the Great Hall of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation with the guest soloists Susana Santos Silva and João Mortágua, conducted by Pedro Moreira. Since 2016 he's part of various bands and projects, mainly Dead Combo, Cassete Pirata, Samuel Úria and Trio de Jazz de Loulé. In Novembrer 2020 he took part of the project "Aqui e Agora", from the English saxophonist Julian Argüelles. At the same time António Quintino writes and records original music for ads and short-films. He's in movie soundtrack recordings such as Refrigerantes e Canções de Amor directed by Luís Galvão Teles and written by Nuno Markl, which won 2017 Sophia Award for Best Song, and Patrick, by Gonçalo Waddington, with original music by Bruno Pernadas. Along the years he has also worked and recorded with José Mário Branco, Mário Laginha, Maria João, Sara Serpa & André Matos, Scott Reeves, Dan Weiss, Ohad Talmor, Mário Laginha, John Ellis, João Paulo Esteves da Silva, André Santos, Gianni Gagliardi, Manuel Paulo, Nancy Vieira, Afonso Pais, Luís Figueiredo, Luís Madureira, among others, touring in numerous countries like Spain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Algeria, Egypt, Turkey and the USA.