Didactic Activity
Since 1992 I devote part of my time to the teaching of the recorder and its music. I started my activity at the Instituto Vitorino Matono, a small and pleasant school in Lisbon. For the 4 years I lived at this city, while graduating in Recorder at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, I thought also at the Academia do Centro Cultural de Beja, Orfeão de Leiria and Academia de Música de Espinho. In 1996, having conclued my bachelor in music, I went back to Oporto, where I taught at the Conservatório de Música do Porto and Conservatório Regional de Gaia for 5 years.
Studium Fistulæ
In 2001 I moved to Sicily and some former students asked me to continue to listen to them every time I'd be in Portugal. I proposed then the realization of small courses devoted to fundamental themes of the recorder repertoire ending with a concert. The first Studium Fistulæ, about the Quantz Capricci, took place in september 2001, at Vila do Conde. Since then the courses happened monthly within periods between 2 and 7 days. A very important step in the life of Studium Fistulæ was given when the Jornal Universitário do Porto kindly allowed the use of their facilities to the realization of these courses. That permited us to overpass the logistic limitations of my house at Vila do Conde but specially gave us the possibility of organizing more complete events with relevance to the portuguese recorder panorama. As an example, Easter 2002's Studium Fistulæ consisted on an Workshop in building an maintenance of the recorder by the italian maker Luca de Paolis, a lecture on the 12 Telemann Fantasias by Pedro Couto Soares, the presentation of the CD "Diferencias" by Pedro Couto Soares and a lecture on musical iconography, besides the usual course and concert.
While they took place, Studium Fistulæ were a true support to the study of the recorder that captivated students from all Portugal and Galiza.
Curso de Música Antiga da ESMAE
Having returned from Sicily, I was enrolled in october 2002 at the Conservatório de Música de Aveiro and, shortly after, was invited to teach at the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo no Porto. At this school, where I currently teach at full time and exclusively, I had the possibility to participate in a very exciting project coordinated by the harpsichordist Ana Mafalda Castro: the creation of the first Early Music Major degree in Portugal with a highly specialized curriculum and variants in any antique instrument.
Cursos Esporádicos
Besides my regular teaching activity, I'm often invited to give recorder and chamber music masterclasses, or early music related seminars and lectures. Lately I'm trying to devote more attention to the renaissance reportoire for recorder consort at the courses where I'm ivited. Togeteher with the english recorder maker Adrian Brown I gave an workshop about the recorder in the renaissance at ESMAE in December 2005.
