Artist
Manuel Teles
Biography
Manuel Teles is a Portuguese saxophonist with more than twenty national and international awards. A graduate of Milan’s Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory, where he completed his master’s degree with summa cum laude, he began his studies at Conservatório de Palmela and the Lisbon Metropolitana School.
Versatile and inquisitive, Teles moves fluidly between modern, experimental, classical, orchestral, and improvised music, performing in many of Europe’s leading venues, including Teatro alla Scala, Centro Cultural de Belém, Teatro Filarmonico di Verona, Casa da Música, MEO Arena, Auditorium Parco della Musica, the Lisbon and Porto Coliseums, Teatro San Carlo, and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
His career includes collaborations with Filarmonica della Scala, Divertimento Ensemble, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, mdi ensemble, and the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra. He has worked with musicians, conductors, and composers as Riccardo Chailly, Myung-Whun Chung, Salvatore Sciarrino, Gavin Bryars, Mikel Urquiza, Luís Tinoco, Maxime Pascal, Markus Stenz, Pedro Amaral and António Victorino D’Almeida. A parallel interest in non-Western musical traditions, particularly those from India, has also shaped his artistic path, inspiring collaborations with artists such as Hariprasad Chaurasia.
Highlights from his discography include Ascolta! (mpmp, 2022) with percussionist Paulo Amendoeira; his solo debut Lisboa-Milano (Stradivarius, 2023); Stepdance (GB Records, 2025) alongside pianist Alexandra Tchernakova; Incandescenza (saldanha, 2026), his most recent live-on-tape solo release.
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