Portuguese pianist Nuno Vieira de Almeida studied in Lisbon with José Manuel Beirão and, as a scholarship recipient from the Fundação Gulbenkian, continued his studies in Vienna with Leonid Brumberg and in London with Geoffrey Parsons.
He regularly performs as a Lied pianist alongside leading Portuguese and international singers, including Gundula Janowitz, Peter Weber, Peter Jelosits, Ulla Gustafson, and Gabriele Fontana, both in Portugal and abroad.
In Portugal, he has given numerous first performances of works by composers such as Schönberg, Webern, Wolf, von Einem, Schreker, Korngold, Weill, Bernstein, and Britten, as well as world premieres of works by Portuguese composers including João Madureira, Carlos Caires, Constança Capdeville, and Paulo Brandão.
He is the author of several interdisciplinary musical projects, combining music with painting, theatre, and poetry, and co-created, with Yvette Centeno, the radio program “O Texto e a Música.”
Nuno Vieira de Almeida also collaborates regularly in theatre and film productions, both as a performer and composer of soundtracks, and has been instrumental in the revival of works for declaimed voice and piano, giving many Portuguese premieres and commissioning new works from contemporary Portuguese composers.
Some of his works and performances include the complete recording of works for voice and piano by Luís de Freitas Branco and Joly Braga Santos, as well as a double CD of Fernando Lopes-Graça’s works for voice and piano with Elsa Saque; a recording of previously unrecorded works by Lopes-Graça with Ana Maria Pinto and João Rodrigues, and another recording of works by Vianna da Motta; the world premiere recording of Lopes-Graça’s Hungarian Songs and Russian Songs for Naxos, with Susana Gaspar, Cátia Moreso, and Fernando Guimarães; he also recorded Schubert’s Winterreise with Peter Weber; and the world premiere of Cantares Galegos by Joly Braga Santos – version for voice and piano – with Elsa Saque in 2005.
In September 2012, he inaugurated the Fórum Luísa Todi in Setúbal with soprano Elisabete Matos, performing a recital of voice and piano.
He served as repetiteur for the film The Giacomo Variations by Michael Stürminger, featuring John Malkovich, Jonas Kaufmann, Miah Persson, and Kate Lindsay.
Nuno Vieira de Almeida is a professor at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa and holds a Doctorate in Historical Musicology from Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
