Percussionist, orchestra leader, composer and pedagogue. He is co-founder and artistic director of the Orquestra de Câmara Portuguesa (OCP), the inclusive ensemble Notas de Contacto, the Jovem Orquestra Portuguesa (JOP) and various social projects.

He has played and conducted more than a hundred new works and collaborates with prestigious musicians such as the Tokyo and Arditti quartets, Sofia Gubaidulina and Gustavo Dudamel, among many others. Pedro Carneiro plays and records as a guest soloist with various orchestras: Los Angeles Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, MDR-Sinfonieorchester, SWR Symphonieorchester, English Chamber Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, among others.

He performs regularly as a conductor and soloist/director, conducting concert works on the marimba. He has received the Gulbenkian Art Prize and the Medal of Honour of the City of Setúbal, among other distinctions. His extensive discography (which includes solo recordings, chamber music, concertante works and improvisation) is available on various record labels, such as ECM Records, Clean Feed and Rattle Records.

Teresa Simas is a dancer and choreographer with a diploma in advanced dance studies from the University of Lisbon (FMH). For 22 years she danced in countries such as Ukraine, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, the United States, Brazil and Portugal. She began creating at Dança Grupo as a co-creative performer in 1986.

Her work has been presented at GITIS – Moscow Institute of Dramatic Arts, where she studied; at the Purcell Room in London; at the Saaremaa Festival in Estonia; at the Belém Cultural Centre in Lisbon, and at other festivals and events. She is the author of the radio programme ‘Dança Falada, Ouvir a Dança’, broadcast by Antena 2 in 2012. She is co-founder of the Orquestra de Câmara Portuguesa, where she created the Body Awareness programme for musicians, an initiative that has been broadcast at various orchestras and international festivals.

She has been staging and choreographing OCP programmes since 2011. She has been OCP’s Executive Director of Projects and Innovation since 2007.

She founded Dança Grupo Plus in 2020.

He is co-founder and executive director of the Orquestra de Câmara Portuguesa – Associação Musical (OCP-AM).

After graduating in Philosophy from the Portuguese Catholic University, he completed postgraduate programmes at the Technical University of Lisbon in International Relations (ISCSP) and Economics and Management in Non-Profit Institutions (IDEFE/ISEG).

At OCP, he is responsible for day-to-day and strategic management tasks, such as drawing up and implementing fundraising plans, developing artistic and corporate products, approaching companies and taking commercial action, as part of the Orchestra’s support model.

He also takes part in the production of artistic activities, as well as managing and coordinating activities with musicians, promoters and other suppliers. He is involved in coordinating the OCPsolidária, Jovem Orquestra Portuguesa (JOP), OCP and OCPdois projects.

He performed with the S. Carlos National Theatre Orchestra and the R.D.P. Symphony Orchestra, where he held the position of solo trumpet from 1985 until its extinction. He collaborated regularly with the Gulbenkian Orchestra.

In Portugal, he was taught by Santiago Kastner, Elisa Lamas, Emídio Coutinho and Marcos Romão. As a scholarship holder from the Directorate-General for Cultural Affairs, he studied in Switzerland with Prof Helmut Hunger and, in the field of Early Music, with Edward Tarr.

As a soloist, he has performed with the Banda da Armada and the Pró-Música, Lisbon Chamber, R.D.P. Symphony, Sousa Carvalho, Youth Symphony and Macau Orchestras.

He taught trumpet and chamber music at the National Conservatoire, as well as at the Luísa Todi Academy and the Setúbal Regional Conservatoire.

Paulo Silva demonstrates a strong dedication to multidisciplinary knowledge, as evidenced by his academic background, having completed Civil Engineering and a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul (UCS) in Brazil. He played an important role as a university monitor, assisting in the academic preparation of students, contributing to the creation of a collaborative and productive environment. In order to continue his professional development, he also obtained postgraduate degrees in Electrical Engineering, Production Engineering with an emphasis on Management, and an MBA in Logistics, consolidating a solid foundation in both the technical and administrative areas. His professional career is marked by extensive experience in the areas of Administration and Finance, working competently in process management, budget control, strategic planning and support for corporate operations. He adopts a stance based on ethics, responsibility and the continuous search for sustainable results, standing out as a well-rounded professional and citizen committed to the social and economic development of the communities in which he operates.

Nuno Zou is a young man passionate about creativity and innovation. He studied Equipment Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon, where he deepened his knowledge of industrial production, visual communication, and technology. Throughout his training and professional experience, he has participated in several projects that have helped him develop skills in digital illustration, 3D modelling and graphic design. He considers himself a curious, resilient person who is always willing to learn something new.

Sebastião Garrett has a degree in Event Production from ETIC (School of Technology, Innovation and Creation). During his studies, he had the opportunity to develop skills in event organisation, management and execution, as well as in communication, logistics, team coordination and relations with partners and entities.

Throughout his professional career, he has collaborated with OCP on several occasions and projects, namely Notas de Contacto, ON, JOP, and other events of a different nature. These experiences have allowed him to work in different contexts, adapt to various teams and roles, and understand the complete dynamics of an event from preparation and planning to production and on-site monitoring.

Sebastião considers himself a versatile person with a desire to learn: he has performed a variety of roles and is always willing to try new areas and challenges. With a strong sense of responsibility, he enjoys working, solving problems, and actively contributing to the success of the projects he is involved in. He always seeks to evolve, learn more, and build a solid career in the world of event production and organisation.

Rafaela Ribeiro has a degree in Event Production from Etic, with a postgraduate degree in Event Management and Entrepreneurship. Throughout her academic and professional career, she has developed solid skills in the areas of event organisation, planning and execution, combining a practical approach with a strong ability to adapt to different contexts and challenges.
She has experience in communication, logistics and production support, having collaborated on large-scale and high-profile events. Throughout her career, she has been part of production teams on projects such as Rock in Rio, Meo Kalorama, and the various areas of intervention of the Portuguese Chamber Orchestra – Musical Association, such as: Portuguese Youth Orchestra, Navigators Orchestra and Sementes.
With a versatile, proactive profile focused on continuous learning, Rafaela sees feedback as an essential tool for professional growth. She seeks to evolve consistently in the area of event production and organisation, consolidating a solid career path and contributing to the creation of well-structured, efficient and memorable experiences.

Madalena Branco, who obtained her PhD in Biology in 2001, was a post-doctoral researcher at the Biodiversity and Genetic Resources Research Centre at the University of Porto for 14 years. At the same time, she dedicated herself to photography and music has always been a great interest of hers.

Born in Lisbon but living in Porto since childhood, her collaboration with OCP began in December 2010 with the organisation of the first ‘My friend from OCP’ event – ‘Madeira that sings: the marimba’, at the OSMOPE nursery and kindergarten in Porto.

The collaboration with OCP initially developed with the recording of ‘pixels’ of OCP rehearsals, concerts and events, and evolved into a broader production collaboration. Between 2011 and 2019, she was responsible for the production of OCPsolidária at APAC in Barcelos and in 2016 she took on the great challenge of producing JOP.

Alongside organising JOP’s auditions, meetings and events, she is dedicated to following the evolution and growth of this project through statistical analysis of its composition from its inception to the present day.

Between July 2018 and December 2019, she collaborated on the production of all OCP projects, including the professional orchestra. She is currently dedicated exclusively to the JOP and the new challenges posed by its growth.

Luísa Semedo (2000) began her musical studies at the age of 9 in the Orquestra Geração project. Between 2010 and 2016, she took part in various orchestral internships, where she played as a bandleader and concertmaster. In 2015 and 2017, she took part in the Sistema Europe Youth Orchestra internship, held in Milan and Athens respectively, a project inspired by El Sistema, which brings together young musicians from various European delegations.

In 2016, she joined the professional course for string and keyboard players at the Escola Artística de Música do Conservatório Nacional, where she studied violin with professors Anne Victorino d’Almeida and Sofia Grilo. At the same institution, she studied piano with Professor Cristina Cardoso and viola d’arco with Professor Ricardo Mateus. In 2023 he completed her degree at the National Superior Academy of Orchestra, in the class of Professor José Pereira.

She has collaborated with various orchestras, including the Orquestra Metropolitana, Orquestra Gulbenkian, Orquestra Sinfonietta de Lisboa, Orquestra Municipal de Sintra, Orquestra Filarmónica Portuguesa, Grupo de Música Contemporânea de Lisboa, Orquestra Regina Coeli, Orquestra Pop Portuguesa, among others.

She has had the opportunity to work with renowned conductors such as Gustavo Dudamel, Pedro Neves, José Eduardo Gomes, Ulyses Ascanio, Filipe Coelho, António Saiote, Emilio Pomàrico, Jean-Marc Burfin, Osvaldo Ferreira, Cesário Costa, Bruno Campo, Etienne Abelin and José Olivetti, among others.

She is currently in the second year of her master’s programme in Violin and Ensemble Class Teaching at the Castelo Branco School of Applied Arts. At the same time, she teaches violin at Arca das Artes, the Crescendo Oeiras Music School and the Orquestra dos Navegadores.

Ana Maria Santos has a PhD with Distinction and Honours from Universidade de Évora. She worked with Etienne Lamaison, Harry Sparnaay at Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya and Michel Arrignon at Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia with scholarships from Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and Fundación Carolina. 

At the present, Ana is an invited Assistant teacher at Universidade de Évora, collaborate at Orquestra de Câmara Portuguesa under the direction of Pedro Carneiro and she works at the social and educational projects that belong to the referred Orchestra, such as, Notas de Contacto – a OCPsolidária na CerciOeiras, Novos Horizontes – a OCPsolidária no Município de Oeiras and Jovem Orquestra Portuguesa. 

In 2021 and 2022, Ana collaborated in some musical theater projects led by the violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaia and she was also invited to integrate the first Lucerne Festival Forward. Since 2017, she is invited to collaborate with the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra and, in 2016, she was invited to become a Buffet Crampon artist. Ana performed in many cities from Europe, Brasil, China, South Korea and USA that gave her the opportunity to work with Pierre Boulez, Zubin Metha, Peter Eötvos, Mathias Pintscher, Alan Gilbert, Beat Furrer, Tito Muñoz, David Robertson, Pablo Heras-Casado, Zolst Nagy, Peter Rundel ou Pascal Rophé. 

The award that Ana is more proud of is the distinction she received from Her Majesty The Queen Sofia of Spain, when she was distinguished, by Michel Arrignon, as the best student of the clarinet class, in 2012.

Afonso Figueiredo, born in Lisbon in 2006, began studying the violin at the age of three at the Conservatório de Música da Metropolitana. In 2016, he joined the Music School of Colégio Moderno, studying under Professor João Vieira de Andrade, where he completed Grade 8 in 2024. He is currently studying for a Bachelor’s degree in Violin at the Lisbon Higher School of Music, in the class of Professor Ana Beatriz Manzanilla.
Throughout his training, he has been a member of various orchestral ensembles, including the “Pequenos Violinos da Metropolitana”, the Colégio Moderno School of Music Orchestra, as concertmaster, and the “Violinos do Moderno” ensemble.
He has performed at major national and international concert halls and cultural institutions, such as the Belém Cultural Centre, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Aula Magna, the São Carlos National Theatre, the Serralves Foundation, Orchestra Hall (Chicago), and the Grand Auditorium of the Macao Cultural Centre, amongst others.
He has undertaken international tours in Italy (2014, 2023), France (2015), the United States (2018) and Macau (2025), taking part in festivals and exchange programmes for young musicians. He has taken part in masterclasses with teachers such as Alejandro Aldana, David Lefévre, José Pereira, Tiago Neto, Evandra Gonçalves, Massimo Spadano and Alissa Margulis, amongst others, and has been conducted by maestros such as Jean-Marc Burfin, Pedro Carneiro, Joana Carneiro, José Eduardo Gomes, Leung Kin-Fung and Martim Sousa Tavares.
In June 2024, he gave a solo performance with a string ensemble at the Belém Cultural Centre. He maintains a regular chamber music practice, playing in string quartets and collaborating with various ensembles. Since September 2024, he has been a permanent member of the Youth Symphony Orchestra and, for the 2025/2026 season, he is a member of the Portuguese Youth Orchestra. In February 2026, he began working as a violin teacher on the Portuguese Chamber Orchestra’s social inclusion project, “A Orquestra dos Navegadores”.

She was born in Santo Tirso, Porto, and began her studies at the age of six in the class of Melanie Fernandes. She completed the Basic Music Course, as part of a joint programme, at ArtEduca – the Vila Nova de Famalicão Conservatory of Music. He continued his studies at ARTAVE – Vale do Ave Professional and Artistic School, where he completed the String and Keyboard Instrumentalist Course in the class of Professor Cátia Sá.

In 2020, she enrolled at ESML – Lisbon Higher School of Music, in the class of Professor Bin Chao, completing in 2023 a Bachelor’s Degree in Music, Performance Specialisation, String, Wind and Percussion Instruments (Violin), where she also completed a Master’s Degree in Music, in the class of Professor Ana Beatriz Manzanilla.

Throughout her academic and musical career, she has participated in recitals and concerts, and has been a member of various ensembles and chamber music groups; she has also attended masterclasses with nationally and internationally renowned musicians.

In an orchestral context, she has had the opportunity to collaborate with youth and professional orchestras across the country, notably the Famalicão Youth Orchestra, the Almada Orchestra and the Loures Symphony Orchestra, amongst others.

In addition to her frequent collaborations in orchestras and chamber music, she teaches violin, viola, introductory music lessons and music for babies and children.

Carolina Godinho began her musical studies at the Baixo Alentejo Regional Conservatory in 2013. In 2021 she completed the 8th grade of her music studies at the same institution and then began her degree at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa in the class of professors Stephen Mason and David Burt. Since then she has played in academic orchestras under the direction of conductors José Eduardo Gomes, Jean-Marc Burfin, Maxine Aulio and Vasco Azevedo. She has also developed various chamber music projects.

In 2023 she studied for a semester at the Malmö Academy of Music in Sweden. She has played in various chamber music projects under the guidance of Professor Gustav Carlsson and, also in the academic sphere, has played in orchestras with conductors Samuli Örnstrommer, Giordani Bellincampi and Matts Paulson.

Throughout her training, she took part in several masterclasses where she received guidance from renowned trumpeters and teachers such as Matthias Höfs, Phil Cobb, Paul Merkelo, Guido Segers, Stephen Schultz, Alan Thomas and Carlos Leite.

In 2023, she won a permanent position in the Jovem Orquestra Portuguesa. Since 2024, she has been teaching trumpet in the Orquestra dos Navegadores.

Born in June 2003, she began studying music at the age of four in Almada. Throughout her career, she has studied with various teachers, including: César Nogueira, Joana Dias, João Barata, Clara Gomes, Maria do Mar, Carlos Lourenço, Ana Filipa Serrão and, at the National Superior Academy of Orchestra, with Ágnes Sárosi, where she completed her degree in 2025.
She also attended various masterclasses with the violinists Eszter Haffner, Lena Neuder, Francisco Lima Santos, Álvaro Pereira and Luís Cunha, as an active participant, and with Ana Chumachenco and Stephan Picard, as an observer. She studied with several chamber music teachers, notably Paul Wakabayashi, César Nogueira, Vasco Broco, Joana Tavares and Liviù Scripc
aru, and performed under the baton of conductors Emilio Pomàrico, Nuno Coelho, Christian Vásquez, Johannes Schlaefli, Jean Marc Burfan, Martim Sousa Tavares, Christopher Bochmann, Reinaldo Guerreiro, João Malha, Carlos Gonçalves, João Defesa, Alberto Roque, Fernando Marinho, Mário Carolino, António Quítalo and Jorge Salgueiro.
She has collaborated with the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, the Academic Orchestra and the Metropolitan Classical Orchestra, the Alto Minho Youth Orchestra, the Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Lusitanus Orchestra, the Setúbal Opera, and the Palmela Orchestra, amongst others.
She took part in the 2025 Classical Summer Festival as an active participant, and also attended the 2026 Munich International Music Violin Academy. Outside the realm of classical music, she has collaborated with artists such as Dino de Santiago and Carminho. As a teacher, she taught at the Estúdios Mão na Música school in 2022/2023, at the Quebra-Notas school in 2025, and is currently teaching on the Orquestras dos Navegadores project run by the Portuguese Chamber Orchestra.

Diogo Figueiredo, a percussionist born in Lisbon in 2002, began his musical studies at the age of 10 at the Conservatório D’Artes de Loures (now the Conservatório Artallis) in 2012. It was at this institution that he completed his basic and secondary percussion courses under the tutelage of Professor David Ribeiro.

At the age of 18, he completed his secondary music course and enrolled at the National Higher Academy of Orchestra.

The following year, he returned to the Artallis Conservatory to take part in the ‘Crescendo’ social project, where he began teaching body percussion classes in primary schools in the municipality of Loures. He is currently studying at the Lisbon Higher School of Music with teachers Pedro Carneiro, Marco Fernandes and Rui Sul Gomes.

Frederico Lourenço graduated from ESART and was tutored by Augusto Trindade in violin and by António Carrilho and Paulo Álvares in chamber music. He has received further training in violin and chamber music masterclasses from musicians such as Olga Prats, Andrey Baranov, Tai Murray and Aníbal Lima, and has taken part in orchestral education projects developed by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Fundación Orquesta de Extremadura (Spain), such as the Gulbenkian Internship for Orchestra and Orquesta Joven de Extremadura.

In Portugal, he performs in symphonic and chamber orchestras as tutti, bandleader or concertmaster, and in ensembles he regularly performs as first or second violin. Examples include the Orquestra de Câmara Portuguesa, Orquestra Sem Fronteiras, Orquestra do Norte, Ensemble MPMP, Coral Sinfónico de Portugal, Orquestra Bomtempo, Orquestra Sinfónica de Thomar, Lisbon Film Orchestra, Orquestra de Almada, Orquestra Promenade, La Nave Va and in ensemble in the Música de Hogwarts projects (2019-2022 Coliseu do Porto, Europarque, Altice Fórum Braga, Teatro das Figuras, C. C. Olga Cadaval, Teatro das Figuras). C. Olga Cadaval, Teatro José Lúcio da Silva, A.M. Pombal) or in the Penal Colony (2023 Teatro São Luiz, Coliseu do Porto; 2024 C.C Olga Cadaval and Almada).

Abroad, he has performed as an orchestral instrumentalist at various international festivals such as Euregio Musik Festival 2018 (Holland and Germany), Osterfestival 2017 (Germany), Al Bustan Festival 2017 (Lebanon) and Premios Fundación Princesa de Girona 2018 (Spain).

He has also been involved in social intervention through music in the special project of the National Conservatoire Orquestra Geração as a violin, violin section and orchestra teacher since 2021.

Ivan Rafael Farmhouse Branco (b. 29 March 2003, Lisbon) began his musical studies in 2010 at the Orquestra de Vialonga, a school associated with the Orquestra Geração, with Professor Rodrigo Carreira as his first teacher and later Professor Francisco Ferreira. In 2018, he joined Professor Armando Martins’ class at the Escola Profissional Metropolitana. He completed his degree at the Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra, where he worked with professors Nuno Vaz, Daniel Canas and Luís Duarte Moreira.

He has collaborated with various Portuguese orchestras, such as Orquestra Geração, Jovem Orquestra Portuguesa, where he performed at the Young Euro Classic festival in 2022, Orquestra Sinfónica Juvenil, Orquestra Académica Metropolitana, Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa and Orquestra de Câmara de Cascais e Oeiras, and as an Academist with the Remix Ensemble in 2023 and 2024.

He has also had the opportunity to play with great conductors such as Emilio Pomàrico, Pedro Neves, Pedro Carneiro, Peter Rundell, Gustavo Dudamel, José Eduardo Gomes, Jean-Marc Burfin, Paul Daniel and Clark Rundell, among others.

He has also taken part in masterclasses with teachers such as Abel Pereira, Paulo Guerreiro, Stefan Dohr, Ignácio Garcia, Ádrian Martinez and Martin Van de Merwe.

She began studying the violin at the age of three at the Lisbon Music Academy, under the guidance of Prof. Ana Rita Gonçalves.
At the age of ten, she joined the Gregorian Institute of Lisbon, where she studied with Prof. Lígia
Soares, completing the 8th grade. In 2022, she was admitted to the Lisbon Higher School of Music, in the class of Prof. Bin Chao and later Prof. Maria Balbi.
She performs regularly in public and has won prizes in various competitions, including the Ourém and Fátima Violin Competition, the Cidade do Fundão International Competition, the Cidade do Montijo National Competition and several editions of the Lisbon Gregorian Institute’s Internal Competition.
She has taken part in masterclasses and open lessons with Professors Roberto Valdés, Carlos Damas, Francisco Lima Santos, Lilia Donkova, Øyvor Volle, Evandra Gonçalves, Alissa Margulis, Nuno Meira and Sara Martinez, amongst others. Furthermore, she is frequently invited to perform with the Metropolitan Academic Orchestra.
She was a full member of the Youth Symphony Orchestra, serving in the first violin section as Assistant Concertmaster. She was a scholarship holder of the GDA Foundation / Youth Symphony Orchestra (2021/2022) and the EDP Foundation / Youth Symphony Orchestra (2022/2023, 2023/2024 and 2024/2025). She teaches violin to private pupils at the Independente Futebol Clube do Torrense School of Arts, as well as on the Navegadores Orchestra Project/OCP, carrying out regular teaching work in the instruction of the instrument.

Student of Jacques Zoon at Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia (2008-2013) with scholarships from Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and Fundación Carolina. In 2009 and 2010, he received the prize as the most outstanding student of the flute class from the hands of Your Majesty The Queen Sofia of Spain.

Rui is a member of the Orquestra de Câmara Portuguesa, under the direction of Pedro Carneiro and he also collaborated in the social projects led by the referred orchestra such as Notas de Contacto: a OCPsolidária na CERCIOEIRAS and Novos Horizontes: a OCPsolidária no Município de Oeiras.

Rui played in Orquestra de Câmara de Cascais e Oeiras (2003-2006), in Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa (2011) and in Plural Ensemble (2013-2019). 

Member of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra (Switzerland), under the direction of Cláudio Abbado, Bernard Haitink, Andris Nelsons, Riccardo Chailly, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Jakub Hrusa and Paavo Järvi.

As a freelancer he collaborated with several orchestras such as, Saito Kinen Orchestra (Japan), Norwegian Radio Orchestra (Norway), Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra Mozart (Italy) Orquestra Gulbenkian, Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa, Orquesta Cadaqués, Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid (Spain), Ensemble MidVest (Denmark) and Ensemble Perspektive (Germany) that gave him the opportunity to play with prestigious conductors like Seiji Ozawa, Zubin Mehta, Peter Eötvos, Fabio Luisi, Zsolt Nagy, Pablo Heras-Casado, Zoltan Kocsis or Peter Rundel.

Sofia Franco Ruivo (1998) is a young violinist fascinated by the orchestral and chamber music repertoire.

She is a member of the Portuguese Chamber Orchestra and collaborates in several of the association’s projects, as a coach for the social project “Orquestra dos Navegadores” and “Sementes”, and for thePortuguese Youth Orchestra (JOP).

As a member of the Portuguese Youth Orchestra, she performed at various festivals such as the Young Euro Classic at the Kozerthaus in Berlin, the Vara Magica International Festival at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest and the Kultur Sommer Nord Hesse at the Kongress Palais Kassel. Throughout her career, she has also had the opportunity to work with such conducters as Gustavo Dudamel (Orquestra del Encuentro 2021), Gábor Takács-Nagy (Orchestre de la HEM), Cristian Mandeal (Orchestra Română de Tineret) and Marc Piollet (Wiener Jeunesse Orchester). 

In 2022, she completed her Master’s degree at the Haute école de Musique de Genève, where she studied with Sasha Rozhdestvensky and had the opportunity to study baroque violin with Florence Malgoire. Throughout her training, she was a member of Quatuor Niji, in the classes of Gabor Takács-Nagy and Quatuor Voce, and Trio Hodler, studying with Diana Ketler, Noémie Bialobroda and Nina Uhari. As a member of both groups, she had the opportunity to benefit from the advice of musicians such as Ophélie Gaillard, Claire Désert, Luc-Marie Aguera and Bruno Giuranna.

Vasco Ferrão (b. 2002) performs regularly as a soloist, chamber musician and recitalist in venues such as the Grand Auditorium of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Casa da Música, C.C. Olga Cadaval, Dusseldörf Tonhalle and Milton Court Concert Hall. With Da Caprio, a piano trio of which he is co-founder, he has won several competitions, including the Antena 2 Young Musicians Award. In its first international appearance, the group was invited to perform at the Schumannfest festival.

He began learning the cello with Marília Peixoto and had the opportunity to take lessons with Paulo Gaio Lima, Xavier Gagnepain, Pieter Wispelwey, among others. He learned chamber music with Anna Tomasik, Pedro Carneiro, the groups Trio Catch, Lutosławski Duo, Endellion Quartet, among others. He has had the opportunity to work closely with musicians such as András Keller, Richard Tognetti (with the Australian Chamber Orchestra), Emilio Pomàrico, and Alfred Brendel. In 2020, he settled in London to study cello with Adrian Brendel and Louise Hopkins, and orchestral conducting with David Corkhill and Tim Redmond at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, kindly supported by the Guildhall School Trust. He also studied vibraphone and jazz piano with pianists Kate Williams and Barry Green. In 2023, he was invited by Robert Levin to participate in his class ‘Bach’s Tonal Universe’.

As a young conductor, he has conducted concerts in Portugal, the United Kingdom and Germany. He currently works as assistant conductor of the Portuguese Chamber Orchestra and the Portuguese Youth Orchestra, having made his debut with the latter at the Grand Auditorium of the Belém Cultural Centre, the Konzerthaus in Berlin and the Kultursommer Nordhessen festival
in Kassel. He was a member of the JOP between 2017 and 2022.

He began his studies at the SESI Centre for Instrumental Training (Fortaleza, Brazil), under the guidance of his grandfather, Maestro Vasquen Fermanian. He attended masterclasses with Sergei Kravchenko (Russia), Frederico Stephan (Brazil), Benjamin Sung (USA), Zófia Wóycicka (Portugal) and Antoinette Lohmann (Amsterdam).
He has taken part in various music festivals, such as: the Campos do Jordão International Festival (São Paulo), the Londrina Festival (Curitiba), the Virtuosi Festival (Recife) and the Eleazar de Carvalho International Festival (Fortaleza).
He has also recorded for various television stations: RTP (Portugal), SIC (Portugal), TV Diário (Brazil), TV Jangadeiro (Brazil), TV O Povo (Brazil) and TV Cultura (Brazil).
He regularly collaborates with various orchestras and ensembles, such as the Gulbenkian Orchestra, the Portuguese Chamber Orchestra, the Cascais and Oeiras Chamber Orchestra, the Almada Chamber Orchestra, the João Roiz Ensemble, the World Youth Orchestra (Germany), the YouTube Symphony Orchestra (Australia), the Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro Symphony Orchestra, Concerto Ibérico (Portugal), the Algarve Symphony Orchestra, the ESART Symphony Orchestra, the University of Extremadura Symphony Orchestra (Spain) and the JFutura Orchestra (Italy).
In 2018, he completed a Master’s degree in Music Education at the Castelo Branco School of Applied Arts, under the supervision of Professor Luísa Tender.
In 2019, he completed a Master’s degree in Violin Performance, under the supervision of Professors Augusto Trindade and Luísa Correia.