3e Concours International de Flûte Maxence Larrieu-Nice 3rd International Flute Competition Maxence Larrieu-Nice 23-31 Octobre 2015 Conservatoire National à Rayonnement Régional de Nice Ana Maria Ribeiro / Portugal She was born in Santa Maria da Feira (Portugal), where she attended the Feira Music Academy and later the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo do Porto, with a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. She concluded her studies at the MusikAkademie Der Stadt Basel in Switzerland, under the guidance of Professor Félix Renggli. Ana Maria Ribeiro gives concerts regularly as soloist with orchestra, as a duo with piano and as chamber musician. She gives several Master Classes and is a panel member of various competitions. Was a prize-winner in competitions and some compositions were dedicated to her. She recorded several times with her orchestra and with her quintet “Versus Wind Quintet”. Ana Maria Ribeiro premiered, at the “Palau de la Musica” in Valencia, the concerto for flute, marimba and winds by composer Teodoro Aparicio Barberan. The comncerto was dedicated to her. She participated in various flute festivals, amongst which, the Festival InternacionalLusoBrasileiro, in Porto, the Sevilla Convention in Spain, and the XII Flute Festival – ABRAF, in Belém, Brazil. Currently, she is Soloist with the Porto Symphony Orchestra Casa da Música and Professor at the Aveiro Calouste Gulbenkian Conservatory in Portugal.