The violins and flutes began to play. At center stage is Sebastião Martins, director and founder of the Iberian Medical Orchestra, which brings together dozens of doctors and medical students from Portugal and Spain twice a year with one vision in mind: put on a good musical show, help a cause. The next concert will be on September 24 at the Altice Fórum, in Braga, and you can buy tickets here.
This is not the first orchestra that Sebastião Martins creates. When he entered the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Lisbon in 2014, he noticed that others shared his passion for music. Through the school hallways, He met some people with whom he sometimes rehearsed. And that ended up being the problem. The lack of spaces to play together and the irregularity of rehearsals meant that the sporadic encounters, no matter how stimulating they were, “they only knew a little”.
At a certain point, Sebastião Martins thought about the next step. The objective was to create an orchestra composed entirely of doctors and medical students, as is the case of the World, European or American Medical Orchestra. Initially it seemed like a project that “would not bear fruit” in the country. “they called me crazy“says the teacher. The plan, as he recalls, seemed “to make no sense.” But, for Sebastião Martins, the “Lisbon Medical Orchestra” made a lot of sense.
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Source: Observadora
