Bruno Gomes Ferreira

Bruno Gomes Ferreira started his musical studies at the age of four at the ArtEduca Music Academy in Vila Nova de Famalicão. He studied piano with teachers Marian Pivka and Álvaro Teixeira Lopes and, at the same time, he studied cello with his father António Ferreira. In 2012, he entered into Conservatório de Música Calouste Gulbenkian de Braga, where he completed the 8th grade of piano, getting the highest grade. He attended proficiency courses with pianists Tatiana Sarkissova, Guigla Katsarava, Carles Lama, Erik Tawatstjerna, Dmitri Alexeev, Stephen Kovacevich, and many more. He was awarded several first prizes such as the 13th International Piano Competition Alexander Scriabin in Paris (2013), 15th International Piano Competition Santa Cecília in Porto (cat. Júnior) (2013) and the 18th International Competition Cidade do Fundão (2017). Since 2015, he has been performing solo and playing chamber music at the Victoria Hall in Geneva, at Palacete de Viscondes de Balsemão in Porto, at Casa da Música, in Bom Jesus and at Theatro Circo in Braga, where he performed Grieg’s Concerto for piano and orchestra under the direction of Jean-Jacques Béreau, at the Municipal Auditorium of Póvoa de Varzim and at the XXXI Pará International Music Festival, Belém, Brazil. In June 2018, he finished his degree, getting the highest grade in the final exam, in the class of Professor Dominique Weber, at Haute École de Musique de Genève, Geneva, where he also finished his master's degree in the class of professor Cédric Pescia in 2020. He was a scholarship holder of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.