Marise Cardoso is a DJ, music producer, researcher, and educator with over 25 years of international career. She holds a Master's degree in Musical Arts from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, with a thesis on the participatory methodology M.O.V.E and is an Official Mentor of the EMMA–UPBEAT programme, funded by Creative Europe. She is currently completing advanced training in Cultural Prescription at Universidade do Porto, an emerging field that positions culture as a tool for community health and wellbeing.
Certified in Integral Sound Studies at Svaram Sound Academy (Auroville, India) and in Yoga, Meditation, and Inclusive Movement (RYT500++, USA and India), her pedagogical practice brings together technical knowledge, academic research, and lived experience across more than 20 countries.
Marise offers workshops, masterclasses, lectures, and 1:1 mentorships in 3 languages for independent artists, music schools, festivals, and academic or institutional programmes.
Services
1. For Artists & Creators
Building a sustainable creative career requires strategic clarity, a strong artistic identity, and the ability to navigate an industry that is constantly shifting. Whether you are an emerging artist finding your voice or an established creator redefining your path, this is a space for honest, experienced, and personalised accompaniment.
Available in Portuguese, English, and Spanish.
1:1 Mentorship
Individual accompaniment for artists building a sustainable, self-managed career in music and the creative industries. Sessions cover artistic identity, project development, communication strategy, visibility, preparation for showcases and international music markets, funding pathways, and collaboration networks.
As an Official Mentor of the EMMA–UPBEAT programme, funded by Creative Europe, Marise works regularly with emerging artists across Europe navigating exactly these challenges, bringing that experience directly into each individual mentorship process.
With a strong focus on women and non-binary artists, the process combines honest feedback, deep listening, and concrete tools, always departing from what you already have and what you have not yet been able to see in your own work.
Format: single session or ongoing programme · online or in-person
Artistic Curation
An experienced external perspective for artists and projects at moments of definition or transition, whether organising a press kit, preparing an application, shaping the curatorial direction of new work, or restructuring the communication of a career in movement.
With 25 years of experience in musical curation, project management, and international circulation, this is a precise, practical reading of what a project is already saying, and what it has not yet found the language to express.
Format: single diagnostic session or project-based accompaniment
2. For Schools, Festivals & Institutions
Music education and cultural programming are most powerful when they reflect the complexity of the world we live in, integrating technology, community, and critical thinking. With over 25 years of international practice, a Master's degree in Musical Arts from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, and ongoing advanced training in Cultural Prescription at Universidade do Porto, Marise Cardoso brings programmes that are rigorous, adaptable, and genuinely transformative for participants and institutions alike.
From one-off masterclasses and lectures to ongoing training programmes and long-term residencies, every collaboration is designed around the specific needs, context, and goals of each institution.
Available in Portuguese, English, and Spanish.
Workshops
Modular programmes for music schools, conservatories, festivals, and cultural centres, designed to fit the specific profile, duration, and context of each institution. Available in-person or online.
Content integrates musical perception, rhythmic and somatic awareness, production and performance tools, and critical perspectives on the contemporary creative industries, grounded in two decades of international pedagogical practice.
Available themes include: musical perception for DJs and producers · creative processes in electronic music · wellbeing and career sustainability · cultural prescription and health · gender and diversity in the music industry.
Format: half-day · full day · modular programme (2 to 5 days)
Masterclasses
Immersive sessions for advanced academic programmes, conservatories, festivals, and conferences seeking singular perspectives on electronic music, sound technology, artistic identity, and creative careers.
Each masterclass combines academic rigour with lived artistic experience, producing conversations that are dense, honest, and genuinely useful, for emerging artists and for educators, programmers, and curators alike.
Frequently requested topics: electronic music and sonic aesthetics · technology and creativity · the body in musical performance · autonomous career management · music, wellbeing, and cultural prescription.
Format: 90 minutes to 3 hours · in-person or online
Lectures
For festivals, conferences, universities, and institutional events seeking voices with real international experience, and perspectives that move past the predictable.
Topics include: the body as an instrument of musical knowledge · women and ageism in the cultural industries · music as a community health resource · cultural prescription: what it is and why it matters · the future of independent creative careers.
All lectures draw from original academic research and are grounded in concrete biographical trajectory, which gives them a density and authenticity that is difficult to replicate.
Format: 45 to 90 minutes · in-person or online · adaptable to panels and roundtables
Institutional Programmes & Residencies
For institutions seeking a deeper collaboration, as a guest lecturer, artist-in-residence, pedagogical consultant, or curator of programming cycles.
With experience across community-based festivals, organisational wellness programmes, and international artistic residencies, every format is designed around specific objectives, with measurable outcomes and full process documentation.
Format: by arrangement · in-person or hybrid · variable duration → Let's talk about a collaboration