Rodrigo Paiva Machado is 21 years old and is a Portuguese trumpet player. He did a bachelor degree in classical music – Trumpet in ZHdK– Zürcher Hochschule der Künste with Frits Damrow. Now is continuing the studies since 2023 in the Master Orchestra in the same school with Frits Damrow, Laurent Tinguely and Balász Nemes.
He started studying the trumpet when he was 10 years old and at 12 went to Artave, a professional school of music in Portugal. He Studied there with the trumpet teachers Eliseu Correia, Angelo Fernandes and Paulo Silva.
He had masterclasses with Hannes Läubin, Philippe Litzler, Renato Longo, Konradin Groth, etc… And in orchestra worked with David Bruchez, Johannes Schlaefli, Christoph-Mathias Mueller, José Eduardo Gomes, etc…
In Portugal played with Orquestra Sinfonica Artave, Orquestra dos dias da Musica do CCB 2018, among other and in Switzerland I played with Schweizer Jugend Sinfonie Orchester, Jungen Sinfonie Orchester Zürich, Kammerorchester Musikschule Konservatorium Zürich, etc…
Rodrigo is very motivated to work in orchestra and goal minded to achieve that goal.
