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Maria-Eduarda Mendes Martins is a composer, conductor, and arts administrator living in Toronto, Canada. Featuring a wide variety of ensembles and sonic colours, her music questions the nature of time, the intricate relationships between past, present, and future, as well as other philosophical matters which are constantly present in history. Ultimately, Maria-Eduarda hopes to foreground human connections between different times and cultures. Born and raised between two Brazilian capitals (Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre), Maria-Eduarda did not have access to musical education until her adolescence, when she discovered an ability to create medieval-sounding melodies. Since then, she completed a bachelor’s degree in music composition at UFRGS with Celso Loureiro Chaves, a master’s degree in music composition at University of Victoria with Dániel Péter Biró and Christopher Butterfield, and she is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in music composition (DMA) at University of Toronto, having Gary Kulesha as her supervisor. Her involvement with the local music community led Maria-Eduarda to stay in Canada, receiving honours such as the 2021 Friends of Canadian Music Award, and becoming a Canadian citizen in 2023. Maria-Eduarda’s music has been recorded by Ablaze Records, Redshift Music, Musicworks (edition #129) and by Urban Arts Berlin collective. Her works have been performed by the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, Filharmonie Brno, Allegra Chamber Orchestra, Orkest de Ereprijs, Bozzini Quartet, Luciane Cardassi, Mark Takeshi McGregor (among others), in cities across North America, South America, and Europe.
