Soprano Camila Mandillo is currently an artist in residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel

(Belgium), under the guidance of Sophie Koch and Stéphane Degout.

She graduated from the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, where she completed both her

Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees with distinction, studying with Martin Bruns and Uta Priew, and

supported by a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. She also received several

merit-based scholarships, including the Deutschlandstipendium, Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now

Berlin e.V., the Vladimir Piontkovsky Memorial Scholarship, Bernbeck Stiftung, Freunde Junger

Musiker e.V. Berlin, and the DMR Stipendienprogramm 2022, as part of Neustart Kultur.

She has participated in masterclasses with artists such as Sabine Devieilhe, José van Dam, Deborah

York, Jill Feldman, Janet Williams, Scott Weir, Robert Dean Smith, and Sarah Maria Sun, among

others.

Camila began her musical studies at the Escola de Música do Conservatório Nacional de Lisboa,

where she trained in classical singing and guitar. She was also a founding member, soloist, and

assistant artistic director of the Children’s and Youth Choir of the University of Lisbon.

She performs regularly in chamber music recitals, Lied, opera, and contemporary music – a field in

which she is gaining increasing recognition.

Her operatic roles include Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart), Donna Anna and Zerlina in Don

Giovanni (Mozart), Pamina in Die Zauberflöte (Mozart), Giulia in La Scala di Seta (Rossini), Morgana in

Alcina (Handel), Belinda in Dido and Aeneas (Purcell), and Ser I in A Laugh to Cry (Miguel Azguime) –

an award-winning opera that has toured nationally and internationally since 2022.

She also premiered the roles of Hana in Blown off Course (Pedro Rebelo), Penélope in O Regresso

(João Quinteiro), and Eurydike IIb in Eurydike (Feliz Anne Reyes Macahis), part of the Neuen Szenen

IV production at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

In the field of contemporary music, highlights include her performances as soloist in the ENOA

workshops “Composing for Voices and Orchestra” with composers Kaija Saariaho (2023) and Luca

Francesconi (2024), alongside the Gulbenkian Orchestra; representing Portugal at the “Art’s Birthday

– Euroradio Ars Acustica Special Evening 2023”, broadcast live on international radio; opening the

Música Viva Festival 2024 with a performance of Mysteries of the Macabre by György Ligeti with the

Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa; and her interpretation of Reinaert Fantasie by Hans Vercauteren

at the Antwerp Spring Festival 2025 with the Orchestre National de Lille.

Camila has collaborated with various ensembles including Il Gardellino Orchestra, Orchestre de

l’Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège, Philharmonisches Orchester des Staatstheaters Cottbus,

Preußisches Kammerorchester, IEMA Ensemble, Echo Ensemble, Concrète {LAB} Ensemble, the

Gulbenkian Orchestra, the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa, and the Baroque Orchestra of Casa

da Música. Since 2020, she has been actively involved in projects with the Sond’Ar-te Electric

Ensemble.

She is featured as one of the main performers in the World New Music Days 2025 in Lisbon, with

particular prominence in the opening concert at the Centro Cultural de Belém, alongside the

Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa.

Following a joint nomination by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Casa da Música, and BOZAR,

she was selected by the ECHO network as one of its six Rising Stars for the 2026–2027 season, with a

tour across some of Europe’s most prestigious concert halls.