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.