Born in Lisbon, Portugal, Nuno was awarded a scholarship in 2014 for undergraduate studies at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, to study piano with Michael Young.
Nuno started taking piano lessons at the age of eight in Academia de Música de Lagos in Portugal with João Rosa, a former student of Michael Young. Alongside his passion for piano Nuno started flute lessons at the age of nine and the flute has been a familiar instrument to him ever since.
In his country, Nuno has been a prize winner in several national and international piano competitions including; International Competition Cidade do Fundão; Concurso Internacional de Música Cidade de Almada, and IX Prémio Nacional Elisa de Sousa Pedroso. In the United Kingdom, Nuno was a finalist of the EPTA UK Piano Competition 2015 and the winner of the Eric Hodges Beethoven Competition 2015, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Concerto Competition 2016, and the Mary Rees Chopin Prize 2016. Recently, Nuno has been selected as one of the finalists of the Ian Stoutzker prize 2018 – an award for the most outstanding performer – which will take place on June 20th in the Dora Stoutzker Hall.
Nuno has also participated in several masterclasses with names such as Angela Hewitt, Katia and Marielle Labèque, Stephen Hough, Boris Berman, Tamara Stefanovich, Peter Jablonski, Artur Pizarro and Paul Badura-Skoda.
Nuno has been performing regularly in the United Kingdom, Portugal and Italy. As a soloist and chamber musician, important performances include Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No 2 for piano and orchestra with the Royal Welsh College Symphony Orchestra in St David’s Hall, under the baton of conductor David Jones. In September, Nuno began his postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Music.
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