Anne Victorino d’Almeida
She is a composer, violinist, and violin teacher at the Escola Artística de Música do Conservatório Nacional since 2004. She was born in 1978 in France and is the youngest daughter of António Victorino D’Almeida and Sybil Harlé. In 1986, she began violin lessons at the Fundação Musical dos Amigos das Crianças with Inês Barata, with whom she studied for eleven years, completing the 8th grade at the same school under the guidance of Leonor Prado. She graduated in 2003 from the Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra, in the class of Agnès Sarosi. After completing her degree, she also studied under António Anjos. Throughout her training, she had the opportunity to attend several advanced courses and masterclasses with renowned violinists and pedagogues such as James Dahlgreen, Gerardo Ribeiro, Galina Turtchaninova, Gilles Apap, and Maxim Vengerov. In 2004, she attended and completed the first year of orchestral conducting at the Higher Academy of Orchestra.
As a violinist, she performed regularly with several national orchestras, notably the Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa, Orquestra Gulbenkian, Orquestra Filarmónica Portuguesa, and Orquestra Sinfonietta de Lisboa, among others.
In the field of teaching, alongside the classes she gives at the Conservatory, she has led several masterclasses both nationally and internationally, notably at the Escola Portuguesa de Maputo in 2011 and 2012, the Oficina de Música de Curitiba in 2013, and in the city of Praia in 2017. She has also served on the jury of several national competitions on numerous occasions.
As a violinist, she was a founding member of the Quarteto Lopes-Graça from 2005 to 2014. She performed frequently in major concert halls in Portugal and abroad, with notable appearances in Andorra in 2008 and in Brazil in 2013, at the Oficina da Música in Curitiba, as well as in Sorocaba and Brasília. With this quartet, she recorded the CD *Música Portuguesa para Quarteto* in 2008, featuring works by António Victorino D’Almeida and Fernando Lopes-Graça, receiving the SPA Authors Award for this recording. She is currently the violinist and founding member of the Trio Rumos Ensemble, created in 2015 and considered the Portuguese chamber group with the most extensive international career, having performed in more than 20 countries across four continents.
Composition has occupied a more prominent place in her artistic career since 2016, and today her music is regularly performed and recorded publicly in Portugal and abroad.
In this field, she began her career by winning the prize for best musical proposal in the competition “Teatro na Década 97.” She also composed the music for several theatre plays staged at the Instituto Português da Juventude, the Teatro da Comuna, and the Teatro da Trindade. In 2006, she composed the soundtrack for the documentary *Cartas a uma Ditadura*, directed by Inês de Medeiros, which was screened in several cinemas in Portugal and abroad, as well as the soundtrack for the short film *Stroke* by Sofia de Botton. In 2014, she wrote the soundtrack and screenplay for the short film *A Carruagem*, directed by João Vasco, which received an honourable mention in the Inatel Video Competition and won the 2015 Grand Prix Cinérail in Paris. In 2023, she composed the soundtrack for the feature film *Mi Hermano Ali*, directed by Paula Palacios. Several of her works are annual compulsory pieces in various competitions. She was composer-in-residence at the Festival Gravíssimo! editions of 2017, 2018, and 2019, and composer-in-residence of the Orquestra de Câmara de Cascais e Oeiras in 2018. As part of the Portugal–France Cross Season, her Piano Concerto Op. 78 was premiered in February 2022 at the Philharmonie de Paris by pianist Bruno Belthoise, with the Orchestre de Picardie under the direction of conductor Michael Cousteau, as well as her work *Nazaré* at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, also in Paris, performed by the Orquestra Filarmónica Portuguesa under conductor Osvaldo Ferreira.
In 2019, she orchestrated the opening theme of the RTP news programme *Telejornal*, performed by the Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa, a project that won the silver award at the “Marketing, Self-Promotion and Innovation – Media and Advertising Award.” In 2020, she composed the idents for RTP2, which have been on air since 25 April of that year.
In 2019, she released the double CD *A Sombra dos Sentidos*, featuring chamber works of her own composition, under the label AvA Musical Editions, supported by SPA and GDA. In 2021, she released the album *Trilogia*, featuring three concertante works with soloists Janete Santos (flute), Joana Cipriano (viola), Ana Maria Pinto (soprano), and Gilles Apap (violin), under the direction of conductor Pedro Neves. Her third album, titled *Importuna Razão*, featuring three chamber works, is expected to be released in 2025.
As a composer, she was awarded the Harvey Philips Award in 2019 in Iowa (USA) for her work *Contos&Improvisos* for tuba and piano. In 2023, she won the first edition of the Prémio Internacional de Composição Darcos.
Ocupou cargos de gestão, designadamente a Direção do Conservatório Nacional enquanto adjunta (2017-2019), membro do Conselho de Administração do Opart E.P.E (2019-2022) e foi Presidente da AD EDIT em 2025.
Her works are exclusively published by AvA Musical Editions.
Currently, Anne composes with great intensity, teaches at the National Conservatory, performs exclusively with the Trio Rumos Ensemble, and only exceptionally participates in other chamber music projects.
Finally, she has five adopted cats and is the mother of Mariana, Francisca, and Constança.
