He was born in Lisbon. Started his musical studies at Academia de Amadores de Música in 1981, completing the courses of Music Theory and Analysis and Composition with Professor Eurico Carrapatoso.
He attends Law school at the University of Lisbon from 1990 to 1995, when he takes music as only choice. Meanwhile he had grown interest in the practice and conducting choral music, once, as a singer, he was already a member of several choirs in Lisbon , namely the Choir of the University of Lisbon where he initiated conducting, as assistant conductor of José Robert.
He worked with António Lourenço and Paulo Lourenço on the 1st and 2nd Choral Conducting Courses in Setúbal (with the Coral Luísa Todi) and with José Robert on the 12 th and 13 th Intensive Courses of Choral Conducting in Torres Novas. He also worked with José Robert as his student during the four years of the Choral Conducting Course of Academia de Amadores de Música.
He has a degree in choral conducting by Escola Superior de Música of Lisbon , where he worked with Vasco Pearce de Azevedo. In his turn he lectured Choir in Escola Profissional de Música de Évora.
He was the vocal trainer of the Chamber Choir Ars Nova, conducted by Francisco d'Orey and is assistant conductor of José Robert in the Choir and the Chamber Choir of the University of Lisbon .
In the Choir Ricercare, he worked with Paulo Lourenço as co-conductor, being its main and only conductor since 2002.
In September 2000 he conducted a workshop in Slovakia on Évora's Cathedral Renaissance Music, invited by the Technical University of Košice.
Sings in the Coro Gregoriano de Lisboa where he is also a soloist.
He conducts since March 1997 the Coro Polifónico Eborae Musica and since September 2000, the Grupo Coral de Queluz. In the same year he creates Officium , a vocal group dedicated to the interpretation of 16th and 17th centuries' Portuguese polyphony and is its artistic director since then. In 2002 he is awarded with the prize “The most promising conductor of Tonen 2002” specially created for him by unanimous decision of the jury, in the Netherlands . That same contest awarded Officium two third prizes, both in Sacred and Secular Music categories.