Date
5/3/2026

Mariana Costa, a master’s student in Music Education at the School of Applied Arts (ESART) of the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco (IPCB) in the violin class of professors Augusto Trindade, Alexandra Trindade, Nuno Vasconcelos and Tiago Santos, was the guest on the latest Editions of A Minha Pauta on Antena 2.

The programme, created by Rui Gomes, airs on Wednesdays after 3 p.m. during the Tarde Antena 2 broadcast, hosted by Mafalda Serrano. Each episode, approximately 10 minutes long, is then made available on the programme’s page on RTP Play and complemented by multimedia versions on social media.

The weekly radio programme, which seeks tо explore the motivations, challenges and dreams of music students, started in 2025 with the participation of trumpeter Bruno Ribeiro Santos, a student at ESART-IPCB.

As for the students of the institution’s bachelor’s and master’s degree courses, violinists Sara Ferreira de Castro and Inês Alves Cordeiro, clarinettist Inês Pereira Simões, bassoonist Diogo Barros da Silva, flutist Ana Beatriz Pinheiro and trumpeter Gonçalo Viana have already appeared on the programme.