Miguel Amado // Bio

Discography

Born in 1973
 .Studied classical guitar with guitarist Piñeiro Nagy, at Academia de Amadores de Música, where he completed the sixth grade.
However he started to study Jazz and the Electric Bass some years later. Studied at the jazz school of the Hot Clube de Portugal, and also took private lessons with teachers like guitarist Pedro Madaleno with who he studied improvisation, composition and arrangement.
Attended several workshops with important musicians like Phil Markowitz, Ed Neumeister, Arnie Lawrence, Bruce Barth or Henry Martin.
He also started teaching for some years now. Teaching some private students, as well as at the jazz school of the Hot Clube de Portugal where he teaches the electric bass and combo.
He had the opportunity to teach some workshops and master-classes.
Started his own project, and recorded his fisrt CD as a leader “Mensagens de Fumo” in 2004. Now in 2010 he released his second CD “This is Home” under the jazz label Tone Of A Pitch (TOAP).
He also has been playing with several others instrumental music projects like the Pedro Madaleno Trio (with Pedro Madaleno and Bruno Pedroso), Ficções, Underpressure, Spill (of guitarist André Fernandes), the Hot Clube Septet, the Rodrigo Gonçalves 5tet or LUME (Lisbon Underground Music Ensemble) bigband.
In Pop-Rock music he played with people like Fausto, João Gil, Lucia Moniz, André Sardet, Nuno Guerreiro, Lena D’Água, Anabela Duarte or David Ripado.