biography
The Associação Filarmónica Adriano Soares is the brass band of Torre de Vilela, in Coimbra. It was founded on 12 April 1992 and its main driving force was conductor Adriano Teixeira Soares, a chief musician sergeant in the Army; it began as a small ensemble.
In 2019 it opened a free music school, managed in partnership with the União de Freguesias de Trouxemil e Torre de Vilela. By 2021 the band had 30 musicians.
