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The Portuguese, tenor João Pedro Afonso, studied at the Academia de Música de Santa Cecília since he was 3 years old, having finished the Scientific-Humanistic Course in Socioeconomic Sciences and, a year later, the Complementary Course in Musical Training. He attended the 3 years of Vocal Technique with Marina Ferreira and, under the guidance of David Paccetti Correia, he was the first student of this institution to finish the 8th Grade of Organ. He joined the Degree in Management at ISEG, Universidade Técnica of Lisbon, a branch that he chose to decline in order to dedicate himself completely to the musical area. He holds a master's degree in Musical Sciences - Historical Musicology from FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, having developed and defended the dissertation entitled «Vincent Novello and the Portuguese Chapel in London - transcription and critical study of the “Selected Mass” (1811/1825)», under guidance from David Cranmer. He holds a degree in Musical Sciences from the same institution, and is also a Collaborator Researcher at the Center for Studies in Sociology and Musical Aesthetics (CESEM) of NOVA FCSH, as part of the Research Group “Music in the Modern Period”. He completed the Complementary Singing Course at the Escola de Música do Conservatório Nacional in the class of Ana Paula Russo. He won the Prize for Best Interpretation of a Portuguese Song at the 10th Edition of the Concurso Nacional de Canto de Conservatórios Oficiais de Música (April 2017, Aveiro). He attended the Early Music class guided by Helena Raposo, belonging to the Ensemble Pictórica, an a cappella quintet that was a finalist in the 29th Edition of the Prémio Jovens Músicos da RTP | Antena 2 (September 2015). He participated in Lied and Song master-classes with David Santos, Opera with João Paulo Santos, Lucia Mazzaria, Christian Hilz and Early Music with Adam Woolf, Wim Becu and Orlanda Velez Isidro.
Since October 2018 João Pedro Afonso teaches Organ and Keyboard Instrument at the Conservatório Regional de Évora — EBORÆ MVSICA. He has been a tenor in the Coro Gulbenkian since November 2010, is a founding member of the choral group Lisboa a Cappella (Director: Pedro Ramos) and is co-head of the Organ of the Igreja de São Tomás de Aquino (April 2014, Lisbon), where he is also a member the Ensemble São Tomás de Aquino (since December 2016; Director: João Andrade Nunes). He collaborates with the group AVRES SERVA (Director: Nuno Oliveira), where he performed works by C. Monteverdi and cantatas by J.S. Bach in Dias da Música-CCB (2018), according to a historically informed interpretation. He collaborated with the Americantiga Ensemble (2015-2016; Director: Ricardo Bernardes), in the Temporada de Música em S. Roque - SCML (2016 and 2017). He was part of the Choeur de Chambre de Namur (Director: Jean Tubéry) in Les Indes Galantes by J. P. Rameau, at the Bastille Opera (October 2019, Paris), under the musical direction of Leonardo García-Alarcón, in a joint production Cappella Mediterranea (Director:) / Opéra National de Paris. |
