Piano
Born in Lisbon, he began studying piano with Gabriela Canavilhas at the Academia dos Amadores de Música and later with Ana Sousa Lima at the National Conservatory of Music, where he completed his piano studies with high honours.
He graduated in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture of Lisbon – Technical University of Lisbon. He obtained a degree in Harpsichord – Early Music, at the Higher School of Music and Performing Arts, in the class of Professor Ana Mafalda Castro. More recently, he completed a postgraduate degree in Cultural Programming and Management.
As an Erasmus scholarship holder, she studied with Siebe Henstra at the Utrecht School of Arts in the Netherlands. She attended several masterclasses with Jacques Ogg at the Casa de Mateus courses and with Ketil Haugsand at the early music courses in Lisbon.
In the field of pedagogy, she attended courses by Jos Wuytack and Edwin Gordon. She has performed in concerts as part of the Music for Babies programme. In 2005, she played with the Divino Sospiro orchestra at the Jerónimos Monastery. In 2006, as part of the Metropolitan Academic Orchestra, under the direction of conductor Jean-Marc Burfin, she performed at the Mafra Convent, the Aula Magna, the Centro Cultural de Belém and the Music Festival.
With the group Os Músicos do Tejo, which she founded in 2005 together with Marcos Magalhães and of which she is co-director, producer and harpsichordist, she has participated in opera productions such as La Spinalba, Lo Frate Nnamorato (Público, 4 stars), Le Carnaval et la Folie (Público, 4 stars) and Il Trionfo d’Amore (Público, 4 stars) at the CCB, Dido and Aeneas at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Expresso, 5 stars), which were very well received by specialist critics.
The opera La Spinalba has been performed in several theatres, such as the Teatro Viriato in Viseu, the Teatro Municipal de Almada and at the Are More Festival in Vigo.
In 2007, he formed a trio with António Carrilho and Marcos Magalhães, featuring two harpsichords and a flute, which made its debut in November 2007 at the Eugénio Almeida Forum in Évora. He participated in the Maio Barroco Óbidos Festival in 2008, in the Mês da Música in Setúbal and in the Raízes Ibéricas – Música em Diálogo Festival, with conductor José Atalaya. With this group, he recorded for RDP – Antena 2 in 2008. He participated in several concerts by Os Músicos do Tejo, such as As Árias de Luísa Todi, at the Cartuxa Music Festival, Nos 200 anos das Guerras Peninsulares, at the Verão Cultural in Mafra, Música nos Mosteiros – Concertos em Rede Igespar, Festival das Artes em Coimbra, Festival da Cartuxa, Theatro Braga Circo, Teatro Constantino Nery, Forum Luisa Todi, Teatro Municipal de Almada, Festival Internacional de Música da Póvoa de Varzim, Dias da Música em Belém – CCB, among others.
As part of the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, she played Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks under the direction of Cesário Costa, in celebration of Culturgest’s twentieth anniversary. With the show A Midsummer Night’s Dream, produced by Teatro Praga, she performed as a harpsichordist at the CCB, Festival Facyl in Salamanca and Guimarães Capital of Culture.
She participated in the production of two CDs as a producer and harpsichordist, namely As Árias de Luisa Todi (Público, 4 stars) and La Spinalba, released by NAXOS in November 2012, which received excellent national (Público, 5 stars) and international (Diapason Magazine, 4 stars) reviews.
She has taught at the Conservatório Regional of Setúbal, the Eborense Music Academy and the Escola Profissional de Música of Évora. Between 2002 and 2003, she collaborated with the Observatory of Cultural Activities. Since 2003/2004, she has been teaching piano and, in 2006, she created the harpsichord class at the Conservatório de Música da Metropolitana.