Ricardo J.Martins & Fernando Ponte - Danças na eira (23rd December 2018 - Delhi )

Although mostly dedicated to accompany Fado, he sees in Portuguese Guitar a enormous capacity as a solo instrument, playing both the Lisbon Guitar and the Coimbra Guitar. He recorded in the year 2014 his first instrumental Portuguese Guitar album called “Ricardo J. Martins”, essentially made of adaptations of themes outside the musical environment of Portuguese Guitar and versions of typical songs of the instrument with own arrangements. From this disc stands out the original theme and single “Danças na Eira”.

Fernando Ponte was born in Faro (Algarve/Portugal) and started his musical studies in the Conservatório Regional do Algarve “Maria Campina” in 1989. Finished the 8th grade in Classical Guitar with the teacher Eudoro Grade. Graduated in music, variant of execution, in the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, with Piñero Nagy. Has the master level in Music Teaching by ISEIT – Almada, Instituto Piaget.