Virginia Figueiredo is a Los Angeles based clarinetist where she performs regularly as a freelancer and with local music ensembles. The idea for Virginia Figueiredo's debut solo album Seule began in 2009, and sprung from the desire to explore music by Los Angeles composers and music by composers from her native country Portugal. It features works by American composers Daniel Kessner, Ken Walicki, Pamela Madsen, David Lefkowitz, Jenni Brandon, and Portuguese composers Clotilde Rosa, and Maria de Lurdes Martins. Big Dog by Ken Walicki, Riverly is the Moon by Pamela Madsen, and The Starlight Night by Jenni Brandon, were all composed for and premiered by Virginia Figueiredo. Many of these works include extended clarinet techniques, but it is their lyrical and expressive character that really shines through, and features the beauty of music for clarinet alone.