Anne
Victorino d'Almeida

Anne Victorino d’Almeida was born on the 15th December 1978 in Poissy (France). Being the youngest of the composer António Victorino d’Almeida’s daughters, her will to study music was early woken, having started with piano lessons at the age of four, in Vienna, Austria. In 1997 she joins the Rueil-Malmaison Regionional Conservatory (France) studying in the class of Dominique Barbier. A year later she returns to Lisbon and joins the class of Agnès Sarosi in the National Superior Academy of Orchestra, graduating in 2003. Throughout her musical career she had the opportunity to attend a diversity of courses and improvement classes with honourable pedagogues and violinists like James Dahlgreen, Gerardo Ribeiro, Galina Turtchaninova, Gilles Apap and Maxim Vengerov. In 2004 she attends and concludes the first year of orchestra direction in the National Superior Academy of Orchestra. She has been dedicating part of her musical career to the composition of soundtracks. She also composed the music of several plays. She was a founding member of the Lopes-Graça Quartet with which has been performing in several points around the country.