Ana Cláudia Serrão began her musical education at the age of seven with the teachers Carlos Gama and Dália de Lacerda, in Fundão.

At the age of fifteen, she started studying the cello with professor Rogério Peixinho at the Conservatório Regional de Música da Beira Interior, continuing later with professor Luís Sá Pessoa at the Escola Profissional de Artes da Beira Interior. She attended masterclasses with the teachers Paulo Gaio Lima, Márcio Carneiro, Jeroen Reuling, Jed Barahal, Luís Claret, Jian Wang, Xavier Gagnepain, Miguel Rocha and Hans Jorgen Jensen.

She has performed with several national and international orchestras; the Portuguese Orchestra of APROARTE Music Schools, the Orchestra of the International Music Week in Luxembourg, the Youth Orchestra of the European Union, the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra and the Lisbon Sinfonietta Orchestra, among others. There she had the opportunity to work with the conductors Richard Hortien, Vasco Azevedo, Luís Cipriano, Dominique Sourrisse, Jean Marc Burfin, Leonardo de Barros, Miguel Graça Moura, Ernst Schelle, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Bernard Haitink.

She has a degree in Orchestral Instrumentation from the Metropolitana’s Superior Academy of Orchestra where she studied with professors Jeremy Lake and Pedro Neves. She pursued her studies with professor Paulo Gaio Lima and professor Dmitri Ferschtman at the Amsterdam Conservatory.

In July 2004, she was awarded the 3rd Prize (superior level) for Cello in the RDP Young Musicians Prize. Since May 2006, she has been a cellist with the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa.

She has recently finished her master’s degree in Music Teaching at the Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra.