Carla Costa

Carla Costa is a musician who specialises primarily in wind instruments, such as the Portuguese and Galician bagpipes, the Irish whistle and the Turkish ney. Her musical journey began at the age of 18 with the bagpipes, under the guidance of different Portuguese teachers and Galician masters such as Daniel Bellón and Anxo Lorenzo, she further developed her technique on the Galician bagpipes. In 2006, she founded the Tuttis project, with which she toured throughout the Iberian Peninsula, marking her first professional experience as a bagpiper. In 2015, she embarked on a new academic and professional path by joining Albaluna, a world music band. Since then, she has performed as a wind instrumentalist in various countries, including France, Italy, Germany, Montenegro, Turkey, Morocco, India and China. Carla Costa has seven albums to her name and was a soloist with the official orchestra of the Macau International Youth Music Festival (2019). As part of her further studies and preparation for various compositions by the same band, she began studying Turkish modal music and the Turkish ney. She has been guided on this journey by various teachers, including Christos Barbas (Greece), Niri Sadeh (Israel), Volkan Incüvez (Turkey) and Ruben Monteiro (Portugal). In 2025, he took part in the world’s longest-running world music festival, breaking two Guinness World Records in India at the ‘One World One Family’ World Cultural Festival, organised by the Sathya Sai Grama institution as part of the centenary celebrations of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. He was also part of the orchestra comprising the greatest number of nationalities. She recorded the album “Kairós” with Ruben Monteiro, taking charge of the “Ney Turco” track, a piece dedicated to music influenced by Mediterranean cultures.