FILIPA MOTA

​Filipa Mota has been engaged with music for as long as she can remember. Her official education started at 6 years old on the piano and developed into a lifetime commitment to art, specifically music. 

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She graduated from ESMAE (Porto-PT) and  Conservatorium Van Amsterdam (NL) with degrees in classical piano, and from Koninklijk Conservatorium (Den Haag-NL) and Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Basel-CH) with degrees in Early Music - Viola da Gamba.  Filipa performs regularly around the world on the viola da gamba as a part of ensembles including Hesperian XXI (Jordi Savall), Sollazzo Ensemble (Anna Danilevskaya), Gli Incogniti (Amandine Beyer) and Profetti della Quinta (Elam Rotem), among others. 

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Filipa is passionate about teaching the fundamentals of the musical language to children, and has more than 20 years of experience teaching piano.

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Filipa believes that music is a way for children to express themselves from early on in their lives, and that the teacher’s task is to assist their students in mastering the technical means to this expression.

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She is particularly fascinated by working on self-motivation with her students, and how, as a teacher, she can best adapt to each one of them.