Carla Caramujo completed her Bachelor and Masters in Music Performance with distinction at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, having graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Opera Course. She studied with Laura Sarti and Patricia MacMahon. She was also a scholar of the Samling Foundation in the UK.

Carla Caramujo won first prizes in a number of competitions including the Luisa Todi National Singing Competition (Lisbon) and at the Musikförderpreis der Hans-Sachs-Loge (Nürnberg,).

Carla Caramujo made her début at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Lisbon as Gilda Rigoletto and was invited back to sing Donna Anna Don Giovanni. She also sang in a Concert Gala at TNSC with Vesselina Kasarova. Her other opera engagements in Portugal include Adina L’elisir d’amore at the Teatro da Trindade, Lisbon, and Nena Lo frate ’nnamorato and Vespina La Spinalba with Os Musicos do Tejo at CCB in Lisbon and in Vigo.

Carla Caramujo’s operatic roles include Violetta La traviata, Madame Herz Die Schauspieldirektor, Fiordiligi Cosi fan tutte, Valetto L’incoronazione di Poppea, Armida Rinaldo, Flight Controller Flight (Jonathan Dove), She in Douglas Templeton’s Night Square, Usignuolo and Fata Azzurra in Respighi’s La bella dormente nel bosco.

Carla Caramujo’s UK concert engagements include performances in The New Sage Gateshead , Fairfield Hall, St James Piccadilly and Barbican, as well as in Germany, the Czech Republic, Mexico and Portugal where she has performed at the Centro Cultural de Belem, and the Gulbenkian Foundation, as well as many of the major music festivals. Her concert repertoire includes Brahms Requiem, Bach Magnificat, Handel Messiah, Mozart C minor Mass, Beethoven Mass in C, Mendelssohn Elijah, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, and Mozart Concert Arias.

Carla Caramujo’s recent engagements include Adele Die Fledermaus at Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon and the role of Salome in the world premiere of O Sonho by Pedro Amaral with the London Sinfonietta in London and at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. Her future engagements include further performances as Nena Lo frate ’nnamorato with Os Musicos do Tejo, and Norina Don Pasquale at Teatro Nacional de São Carlos.