Born in Terceira island, Azores, Luísa Toledo soon showed an interest in music and a particular taste for Singing. She began her musical studies at Academia de Amadores de Música, having later joined the National Conservatory Music School, where she completed her Lyrical Singing Course with a high classification, in the class of Professor José Manuel Araújo (2016).
Luísa has attended Masterclasses with several national and international conductors and teachers, in order to expand her technical, musical and vocal knowledge, namely with Paulo Lourenço and Jill Lawson, Susan Waters, Sergei Leiferkus, Lucia Mazzaria, Vesselina Kasarova, Orlanda Velez Isidro, Jorge Balça and Kodo Yamagishi, Anna Samuil and Matthias Samuil, Neil Semer, Rafaela Albuquerque and João Araújo. Privately, Luísa Toledo has worked vocal technique and repertoire with soprano Sandra Medeiros between 2017 and 2024. Currently, she perfects her lyrical singing with Paula Morna Dória.
Recently, Luísa Toledo was been awarded in the category Classical Voice – Professional several International Music Competitions: Maurice Ravel Competition Paris - Special Prize (Paris, 2024), International Mozart Competition Vienna - 4th Prize (Austria, 2023), London Classical Music Competition - 4th Prize (United Kingdom, 2023), Euterpe Music Awards - Honorable Mention (Germany, 2023), having also been a finalist in the XII North International Music Competition (Sweden, 2023).
Luísa was a choralist at Lisboa Cantat Musical Association, between 2010 and 2017, conducted by maestro Jorge Alves. In 2015, she was invited by conductor Teresita Gutierrez Marques to join the Lisbon Chamber Choir, a renowned Chamber Music Ensemble in the Portuguese panorama with intense activity in Portugal and abroad, group to which she belonged up to 2024.
She has attended as soloist in concerts and festivals of choral symphonic music and chamber music, namely sang as second soprano Choral Fantasy de Beethoven (CCB), The Seven Last Words of Christ de Haydn (CCB), O quam suavis and Alleluia in F Major (Marcos Portugal), directed by Teresita Gutierrez Marques (National Library, Parish Church of the Holy Family of Paço de Arcos, Church of the Monastery of Santa Maria de Arouca), Iste Confessor by Domenico Scarlatti (Parish Church of the Holy Family of Paço de Arcos, Church of the Monastery of Santa Maria de Arouca), as well as oratorio arias concerts (Church of Nossa Senhora da Guia – Angra do Heroísmo Museum). She has collaborated with conductors Cesário Costa, Theodor Guschlbauer, Jorge Alves, Teresita Gutierrez Marques and organists António Duarte, Sérgio Silva and Gustaaf van Manen.
In recital, Luísa performed at the Noble Hall of National Conservatory, Italian Institute of Culture, Foyer of Domus Vida Residence, Santiago's Church of Palmela Castle (microFIAR'23 Festival), Elos Lisbon Club and at the National Press Mint House Library, in Lisbon.
In opera projects, Luísa was Dido in Dido and Aeneas (Purcell) and Amore in Orfeo ed Euridice (Glück).
As a member of Lisboa Cantat Symphonic Choir and the Lisbon Chamber Choir, Luísa recorded 6 CDs: Fernando Lopes Graça – Obra Coral a cappella Volumes I and II, Numérica Records (2010; 2012), Compositores Portugueses XX/XXI Volume 4, Numérica Records (2011), Amizade entre Filipinas e Portugal edited with the support of the Embassy of the Philippines in Lisbon (2016), Dom Pedro De Cristo – Esplendor Musical do Mosteiro de Santa Cruz (2018) and Marcos Portugal – Música Religiosa Publicada No Século XIX (2019), both edited by the Lisbon Chamber Choir.
Furthermore, Luísa Toledo is a music therapist and develops her activity in clinical and school contexts with children with neurodevelopmental disorders and special educational needs, having a Master's degree in Music Therapy from Lusíada University of Lisbon. She holds a degree in Sociology from the Portuguese Catholic University.