Aimed at babies aged 0 to 3, Concerts for Babies are, first and foremost, concerts. Considering babies to be audiences in their own right, here and now, Concerts for Babies were the first organisation to bring events such as these into the main programmes put together by concert halls. From the very start, they have set themselves apart from a growing number of other artistic projects aimed at children, thanks to the absolute respect with which they lend themselves entirely to babies, parents and grandparents.
Monteverdi, Bach and Mozart are only a few of the hosts of a vast selection of composers, from classical to jazz; traditional Portuguese to world music; electronics to improvisations and balls held with parents and babies.
Concerts for Babies have been, and are to this day, a longstanding source of inspiration for hundreds of other early childhood projects around the world with a focus on Music and Performing Arts, but also in the fields of Education, Health and Wellbeing. This project from Leiria has had a global impact, demonstrated by the large number of permanent invitations its Artistic Director, Paulo Lameiro, receives to Conferences, Training courses and Artistic Residencies.
Born in Leiria, from the “Berço das Artes” (Cradle of the Arts) programme run at the SAMP – Artistic Musical Society of Pousos, in 1998, the programme went on to play in Portugal’s leading concert venues, even becoming a resident project in several theatres across the country and performing in close to 90 rooms and festivals at events in Europe, Asia and Brazil.