BIOGRAPHY

He has performed in several continents and recorded for European and American radio and television.

In Portugal, he played in venues such as the CCB, Casa da Música, Gulbenkian, Teatro Rivoli, Teatro Nacional de São Carlos and Teatro São Luiz.

As a soloist, he played with the Kansas University Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Clássica de Espinho, Orquestra do Algarve, Orquestra do Norte, Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa and Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa, under the direction of conductors Nicholas Uljanov, Steven McDonald, Pedro Neves, Ferreira Lobo, Cesário Costa, Jean-Marc Burfin and Daniel Klajner.

Paulo Oliveira maintains a very active chamber music career, having collaborated with musicians such as Teresa Valente Pereira, Adriana Ferreira, Jill Lawson, Iva Barbosa, Marco Pereira, Nuno Silva, Janete Santos, Daniel Cunha, among others.

He plays a relevant role in the dissemination of Portuguese piano music, having already had several premieres of works dedicated to him.

In addition, he maintains in his repertoire works by authors from other periods, thus contributing to keep this music alive and performed, regardless of when it was written.

Paulo Oliveira is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Art at the University of Aveiro.

He is regularly invited to teach masterclasses both in Portugal and abroad and often serves as a jury member of national and international competitions.

He is a founding member of the current delegation of EPTA Portugal (European Piano Teachers Association).

Paulo holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Kansas, where he graduated with honors from the class of the renowned pianist and pedagogue Sequeira Costa, with whom he studied for nearly a decade.

His studies were sponsored by scholarships from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and by the Portuguese government – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.

Previously, he studied with Tania Achot at the Escola Superior de Música in Lisbon.

Some of his other relevant teachers and mentors were Helena Sá e Costa, Luiz de Moura Castro, Andrei Diev, Vladimir Viardo, Vitaly Margulis, Aldo Ciccolini, Paul Badura-Skoda and Dmitri Bashkirov.

His album Iberian Impressions, released by Odradek Records, received a Global Music Award in the USA, in the Classical Piano category.