Sérgio Carolino is one of the most acclaimed tubists, with constant activity as a soloist and teacher in the most prestigious festivals, conservatories and universities of the five continents. Received for seven times the Roger Bobo Award Prize for Excellence in Recording (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2019 and 2023) in all categories (Solo, Ensemble & Jazz), the Award for Emerging Jazz Artist (2004), the Carlos Paredes Prize (2004) and won the SPA Award 2013 -Classical Music Category (Portuguese Author’s Society) for the works published in 2012 and for promoting Portuguese music throughout the World.

Collector of music works, records, awards, compliments, reputation, sunglasses, hashtags and selfies. Source of creativity and virtuosity. Eclectic, original and visionary. Curious by definition. Adventurous by choice. Owner of a pure heart and of Sparky, the Basset Hound. Trancends musicality and works to achieve excellence. Passionate about life, loves cinema, mythology, reading, fishing and spending time with his friends. Anyone who crosses with him will never forget him and leave, of that encounter, humanly and professionally richer.

Sérgio Carolino is, since 2002, principal solo tuba in the Porto Symphony Orchestra Casa da Música, a Yamaha International Artist, and an exclusive artist of the Artistic Platform Palco Improvisado.

Telmo Marques: “Waxed Floor” (2012)
The Stillness of the empty ballroom. The floor has been waxed - a mirror of crystal silence. Later will be responsible for the slip of a shoe in the middle  of a dance, bringing a wounded knee, a wounded pride, and a laugh of someone else. Different emotional perspectives. You can choose the dance. ... but be very careful with the wax!

Telmo Marques: “The Death Song of Uther Pendragon” (2020)
When a composer needs to be inspired…

According to several fragments and manuscripts in early welsh poetry the name Uther Pendragon is associated with Arthur, sometimes appearing as his father. The tittle Pendragon, meaning literally the “Head of the Dragon” was borrowed from Old Welsh into Middle English. The legend of Uther was memorialized in the Book of Taliesin under the name “The Death-song of Uther Pendragon”. Although his ambiguous character, he could be described as a strong King and a defender of his people.

I am a bard, and I am a harper, I am a piper, and I am a crowder.
Of seven score musicians the very great enchanter.
There was the enameled honor the privilege.
Hu of the expended wings.
Thy son, thy barded proclamation,
Thy steward, of a gifted father.
My tongue to recite my death-song.
If of stone-work the opposing wall of the world.
May the countenance of Prydain be bright for my guidance.
Sovereign of heaven, let my messages not be rejected.

The Book of Taliesin XLVIII

Telmo Marques: “YATTA - YARIMASHITA” Sonata for Tuba & Piano (2012)
Finally the old dream to visit Nihon became a truly certainly! So, imagination starts boiling from the very first movement and takes. Control over Future Experience providing a predictive interpretation of something that has not happened yet — like PreCogs in Philip K. Dicks’s concept. The music is a descriptive anticipation of a journey to the land of the Rising Sun, starting the very moment someone received the confirmation, until his homecoming on the other side of the globe: Portugal, land of Fado and its longing sentiment of resignation, fatefulness and melancholia.

Telmo Marques, born in Porto in 1963, is a Portuguese composer, pianist, arranger, and producer. Graduated in piano at the ESMAE-IPP (Prize Eugénio de Almeida – best classification); Master of Arts at Roehampton University in UK;
PhD in Computer Music at the UCP – Portuguese Catholic University (summa cum laude).

Marques teaches Composition, Compositional Techniques, Music Analysis, and Music Production at ESMAE-IPP/Porto. Commissioned for Porto 2001 and Guimarães 2012 Cultural Capital. Music for theatrical plays, documentaries, and hundreds of commercials. Over than 100 recording participations as pianist, arranger, composer and/or producer.; Music published in score by BIM editions, AVA editions, and Molenaar editions. Integrated Research Member of CEIS20 – Coimbra University/Portugal.

Luís Cardoso: ABBAS ALCOBATIA  (2020) for two tubas & piano
Abbas Alcobatia is a piece dedicated to Sérgio Carolino, inspired by the religious life in his birthplace monastery (Alcobaça - Portugal). The composition is for 2 tubas and piano and was premiered by Sérgio Carolino, Shimpei Tsugita and Rena Hashimoto at the Phoenix Hall in Osaka, Japan, on November 5, 2015. In 2016 was awarded with the 1st Prize of "Harvey G. Phillips Awards for Excellence in Composition", on theTuba Solo’ category, by the International Tuba Euphonium Association.

Luís Cardoso (b. 1974 in Fermentelos / Aveiro). Composer, arranger, conductor, pedagogue and saxophonist. awarded in 2021 and 2016 with the Harvey Phillips Award for Excellence in Composition by the International Tuba Euphonium Association (USA); 2014 - 2nd Prize in the Composition Competition for the Portuguese Symphonic Band; 2006 - prize of the II City of Aveiro Composition Competition, 2002 - 1st Silva Dionísio Grand Prize for Band Composition,  2013 - one of the three finalists for the Portuguese Society of Authors  Award - Classical Music category. It is published by the Dutch publisher Molenaar and in author's edition, with 140 original works and around 850 musical arrangements.

Filipe Melo: Home from “3 Songs” (2008)
When an exceptional tuba player like Sérgio Carolino asks a musician to compose something for him, one should not think of the sound of the tuba - one should think of the sound of Sérgio Carolino. A virtuoso of the instrument and a master of improvising phrasing. Carolino gives the listener a feeling of easiness - all he plays sounds very much like a human voice - and this shows what I believe his is greatest gift: no matter how complex the music is, he makes it sound simple and human.

These were guiding elements throughout the three songs - simplicity and humanity - the music, although written traditionally, is intended to the kaleidoscopical and different in every performance. I am writing this lines 13 years after these piece were written, and as I look back I see that my main goal was to write music that was very simple and direct, but that could surprise me every time I would hear it in concert. I am sure it will happen and I’ll be here, very proud, to witness it.

Filipe Melo, born in Lisbon in 1977, studied at the Hot Clube of Portugal and at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He won the Villas Boas award for best upcoming jazz musician, the "Outstanding Musicianship Award" from Berklee College and the New Talent Award by the JazzPortugal website.

After making his stage debut at the Umbria Jazz Festival in Italy, he did sideman work for Benny Golson, Seamus Blake, John Ellis, Peter Bernstein, Omer Avital, Donald Harrison Jr., Jesse Davis, Sheila Jordan, Paulinho Braga, Swingle Singers, Martin Taylor, Perico Sambeat, Herb Geller, Hotclube's Big Band, Metropolitan Orchestra, Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, among many others.

Melo also works as a composer and arranger with musicians such as The Legendary Tigerman, António Zambujo, Old Jerusalem, Carlos do Carmo, GNR, Camané, David Fonseca, Marta Hugon, Sérgio Carolino and Carmen Souza. With over 20 albums recorded as sideman, he also wrote music for many stage-plays. As a pianist, he played in some of the most important festivals and jazz clubs around the world: Red Sea Jazz Festival, Luanda Jazz Festival, Duc des Lombards, CairoJazz Festival, etc. In 2011, the Bucharest Jazz Festival and the prize Carlos Paredes with the group of bassist André Carvalho.

He is also film director and comic book writer. He won the Fantasporto in 2004 and the Méliès d´Or in Finland with his short film "I´ll see you in my Dreams", and currently writes for Dark Horse Comics in the U.S. In 2012 he was invited to write for Dark Horse Presents, alongside Frank Miller and Mike Mignola. He is the creator of the trilogy "The Adventures of Dog Pizzaboy Mendonça". These comic books have forewords of the legendary directors John Landis, George a. Romero and Tobe Hooper, and are published in several countries.

Currently, he is a professor at the Escola Superior de Música in Lisbon.