Lisete da Silva (Baroque flute & recorders) was born in Lisbon, in 1993 she was awarded a full scholarship and entrance exhibition by the Royal Academy of Music in London to study with Peter Holtslag, Anneke Boeke and Lisa Beznosiuk and where where she won numerous prizes for her solo performances as well as for chamber music and participated in master-classes with some of the most renowned figures in Early Music such as Christopher Hogwood, William Christie, Trevor Pinnok, Paul Goodwin, Jed Wenz, Pedro Memelsdorff amongst others.
Lisete pursues a varied career as a soloist, teacher, director and ensemble player. Having been a finalist in the Moeck International Competition for Solo Recorder, professional engagements have included performances with the Handel Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment amongst others, in the UK, EC and South America. Regular Engagements with Concertante of London and Mercurius Company (of which she is a co director) provide a constant vehicle for demonstrating the great variety of repertoire for the flute and recorder in the orchestral setting. Lisete was recently a soloist playing Vivaldi´s C minor recorder concerto with Concertante at Kings Place and in September 2009 Lisete directed the music for Mercurius Company´s production Orpheus Britannicus at the Cadogan Hall in London.
Lisete has performed at some of Europe´s most prestigious venues including the Barcelona early music Festival the Aldeburgh Festival and the Cheltenham Festival, the Edinburgh Festival, the Opera Theatre of Mahon, Menorca and the City Festival in Athens. She performed for the Park Lane Group at the Purcell Room and Wigmore Hall in programmes of Contemporary music, has done numerous broadcasts for BBC Radios 2 and 3, BBC World Service, Radio and Television of Catalunia and Slovenian Radio and TV and Deutsche Welle.
Lisete co-founded Spirituoso with Ricardo Barros and Nicholas Stringfellow and in 2009 the Trio were appointed Ensemble in Residence at the Handel House Museum in London (a position they held until January 2011), they have a busy performance schedule with concerts in the UK, Ireland, Portugal and Brasil have given the world premiere in October and November 2010 of four works specially commissioned for them by the Sound and Music organisation.
Lisete worked for Sir Yehudi Menuhin´s Live Music Now! Scheme, and the South East music schemes giving concerts and workshops in schools across the UK over a period of 8 years, which lead to the co-writing of a Tudor children´s musical "Trouble at the Tudor Banquet" aimed at key stage 2 music for schools, published in 2002 by Starshine Music and distributed throughout the UK, America and Canada.
In April 2009 Lisete presented Handel Fever for Deutsche Welle´s TV Culture 21 programme a documentary celebrating Handel´s 250th Anniversary. She is currently a professor of Recorder and Chamber music at the Blackheath Conservatoire of Music and the Arts where she directs Blackheath Baroque, Watford School of Music and Blackheath High School, teaches regular masterclasses and performs in Slovenia and is part of the Early Music Academy of Lisbon International Summer Courses.
Lisete has recently recorded two CDs of music by Dornel and Bach´s "Musical Offering" available on the NAXOS and SOMM labels and was featured in Ben Wallfische´s debut CD Escape Velocity for Quartz label.
Future engagements include a tour of Spiritoso´s ´Dangerous Liaisons – Forbidden Love´ programme in China and Europe, and concerts in the UK.
