{"id":107,"date":"2026-03-06T18:06:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T18:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joaoalmeida.eu\/?page_id=107"},"modified":"2026-03-12T11:32:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:32:21","slug":"02_about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/joaoalmeida.eu\/index.php\/02_about\/","title":{"rendered":"about"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"107\" class=\"elementor elementor-107\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-77da2438 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"77da2438\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a6ff316 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a6ff316\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"layout\"><div class=\"col-img\" style=\"width: 50%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; object-fit: cover; display: block;\" src=\"http:\/\/joaoalmeida.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20211021-015-cred_VeraMarmelo.jpg\" \/><\/div><div class=\"col-content\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jo\u00e3o Almeida is a Portuguese trumpet player, improviser\/composer and sound engineer based in Lisbon, Portugal. In recent years, he has collaborated and shared the stage with Nate Wooley, Peter Evans, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Brandon Lopez, Michael Formanek, Tomas Fujiwara, Mary Halvorson, Alexander Hawkins, Chet Doxas, John O\u2019Gallagher, Akira Sakata, Giovanni Di Domenico, Tony Elieh, Patrick Guionnet, Norberto Lobo, Jo\u00e3o Lobo, Jo\u00e3o Pereira, Yaw Tembe, Gon\u00e7alo Almeida, Rodrigo Amado, Susana Santos Silva, Rodrigo Pinheiro, Hern\u00e2ni Faustino, Albert Cirera, Ricardo Jacinto, Yedo Gibson, Vasco Furtado, Ricardo Martins and Pedro Melo Alves, among others.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His solo work, HOCUS, is focused on creating time-freezing noise layers, with impactful changes of scenery. Part of groups such as Peachfuzz, GARFO, Ch\u00e3o Maior and Lucif\u00e9cit, he has played in festivals and venues such as Teatro S.Luiz, TBA, Capit\u00f3lio, Galeria Z\u00e9 dos Bois, CCB, Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Calouste Gulbenkian, Culturgest Lisboa, Casa da M\u00fasica, OUT.FEST, Festival Robalo Antena 2, Guimar\u00e3es Jazz, Festa do Jazz, Cortona Jazz Festival, Area S\u00edsmica, VinterJazz 2024, Klub Primi, Mayhem, Cave12, Klankhaven, Les Ateliers Claus, FRIM, St. Lambertus Kapelle, and has toured extensively through Europe and Japan.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a sound engineer, he has worked at PENHA SCO, Sala Lisa, and Audit\u00f3rio do Liceu Cam\u00f5es, and recorded, mixed and mastered records for John Edwards, Audrey Chen, Henrik Munkeby N\u00f8rsteb\u00f8, Phil Minton, Norberto Lobo and Jo\u00e3o Lobo.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jo\u00e3o is also part of Robalo Association, Cora\u00e7\u00e3o De Boi, Cara Podre and Facada Records, releasing music, organizing concerts, festivals and events.<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jo\u00e3o Almeida is a Portuguese trumpet player, improviser\/composer and sound engineer based in Lisbon, Portugal. In recent years, he has collaborated and shared the stage with Nate Wooley, Peter Evans, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Brandon Lopez, Michael Formanek, Tomas Fujiwara, Mary Halvorson, Alexander Hawkins, Chet Doxas, John O\u2019Gallagher, Akira Sakata, Giovanni Di Domenico, Tony Elieh, Patrick Guionnet, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-107","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joaoalmeida.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joaoalmeida.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joaoalmeida.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joaoalmeida.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joaoalmeida.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/joaoalmeida.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/joaoalmeida.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joaoalmeida.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}