Porto University Choral Society is touring Brazil

From 28 August until 10 September, students from the Porto University Choral Society the University of Porto (OUP) will be touring Brazil, with an array of performances scheduled in Rio de Janeiro and in São Paulo.

The OUP carries out summer cultural and artistic tours since its inception, in 1912, and has already travelled the four continents, showcasing the ethnographic and musical heritage of Portuguese music and sonorities.

This year, the Chorus Society of the UP is in Brazil, once again, a country they have visited in 1965, 1991, 1998 and 2005.

"The greatest aim is to reinforce the OUP's mission as one of the most relevant ambassador of Portugal, always in close connection with our vast Portuguese community in the diaspora", explained artistic regent and maestro António Sérgio Ferreira.

Porto University Choral Society has taken 35 of its members to Brazil from 28 August till 10 September, and they will present a comprehensive performances' programme in several Portuguese associations, taking to the stage choral singing, dances from the Douro and the Azores regions, popular choir, The Pauliteiros Group dances, Alentejo singing, Fado from Coimbra, Lisbon and also the Tuna Universitária do Porto, the oldest "Tuna Académica" in the country (set up in 1888). 

Porto University Choral Society is a non-profit institution, established in 1912, composed of university students that are devoted to the pursuit of educational, musical, academic and cultural values. The OUP has been granted the Municipal Council Gold Medal for Merit by Porto City Hall, in 1950.