Susana Santos Silva was born in Porto in the year of 1979.
She holds a Master Diploma in Jazz Performance '2010 from Codarts, Rotterdam, where she
worked with Eric Vloeimans, Jarmo Hoogendijk and Wim Both.
She holds a Graduate Diploma in Jazz/Trumpet '2008 from the College of Music and Performing
Arts in Porto. She also holds a Graduate Diploma in Trumpet '2004 from the same school, finishing the course at the Stlaatliche Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe in Reinhold Friedrich's Class, where she also had lessons with Prof. Edward Tarr, Klaus Schuwerk and Klaus Braker.
She is a part of Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos, with whom she records Portology featuring Lee
Konitz, OJM Invites Chris Cheek, Our Secret World featuring Kurt Rosenwinkel, Amoras e Framboesas featuring Maria João and plays with Mark Turner, Rich Perry, John Riley, Carla Bley, Steve Swallow, Bob Berg, Rick Margitza, Perico Sambeat, Conrad Herwig, Ingrid Jensen, Joshua Redman, Dan Weiss, John Hollenbeck, Theo Bleckman, Jordi Rossi, Maria Schneider, among others. The orchestra has been playing on the jazz festivals all over Portugal and in Milano, Brussels, Boston and New York.
She is a member of the European Movement Jazz Orchestra, with whom she played in Germany,
Slovenia, Austria, Belgium, Portugal and Egipt. The orchestra recorded EMJO Live at Coimbra that will be released in June 2011 by the Lisbon based label Cleanfeed. With LAMA, a Rotterdam based trio with Gonçalo Almeida on bass and electronics and Greg Smith on drums she records an album that will be released by Cleanfeed in 2011.
In 2010 she records her first album as a leader of her own Quintet, Devil's Dress, released in April 2011 by the Lisbon based label TOAP Records. With this quintet she played, among other places, at Casa da Música in Porto, Festival de Jazz Valado dos Frades and 12 Points! Jazz Festival, Dublin in May 2011.
