Awarded in several national and international competitions, Paulo Oliveira is one of the most distinguished Portuguese pianists of his generation. He has performed in several continents and recorded for European and American radio and television. Paulo holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Kansas, where he graduated with honors from the class of the renowned pianist and pedagogue Sequeira Costa, with whom he studied for nearly a decade. His studies were sponsored by scholarships from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and by the Portuguese government. Previously, he studied with Tania Achot at the Escola Superior de Música in Lisbon. Some of his other relevant teachers and mentors were Helena Sá e Costa, Luiz de Moura Castro, Andrei Diev, Vladimir Viardo, Vitaly Margulis, Aldo Ciccolini, Paul Badura-Skoda and Dmitri Bashkirov. Paulo combines his artistic career with a dedicated teaching activity. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Art at the University of Aveiro and he is regularly invited to teach masterclasses both in Portugal and abroad and often serves as a jury member of national and international competitions. He is a founding member of the current delegation of EPTA Portugal (European Piano Teachers Association). His album Iberian Impressions, released by Odradek Records, received a Global Music Award in the USA, in the Classical Piano category.