Timóteo Cuche

Mozambican saxophonist and musician, University Assistant at Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique, and doctoral candidate in music (Ethnomusicology), at the University of Aveiro, with a research project entitled, “Musical practices, Society and creative interactions in the city of Maputo”. He completed a Master's degree in Music (Ethnomusicology) at the University of Aveiro, in 2021, having defended his Master's thesis: Mozambique in Portugal: Ethnomusicological study on migrant musicians.He holds an MBA - Master of Business Administration in Project Management, from the Higher Institute of Management, Administration and Education of Mozambique, (2014) and a Degree in Music from Eduardo Mondlane University - School of Communication and Arts (2011).

He obtained a Research Scholarship from the University of Aveiro under the Sensitive Atlantic Project (AtlaS) - Memory and mediation of practices and musical instruments in circulation between interconnected communities (2022), and a Master's scholarship (2019 – 2021) from the União Program European Procultura Palop TL. He received saxophone lessons from teachers Orlando da Conceição (Mozambique), Will Ramsay (Germany – Global Music Academy), Petri Puolitaival (Finland – Sibelius Academy), and João Martins (University of Aveiro). His main areas of scientific interest are Mozambican popular music in the diaspora, collaborative processes, creative interactions, migration, the music industry, marketing, postcolonial studies, music and education, and music and dance as cultural heritage. immaterial.