André Costa iniciou os seus estudos musicais em 1990 com Tania Achot. No ano seguinte ingressa na Escola de Música do Conservatório Nacional, o qual viria concluir com a classificação final de 19 valores sob a orientação da Professora Ana Valente (1997). Durante o mesmo período frequentou o curso de Ciências Musicais – ramo de Musicologia – da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa curso que viria a concluir em 1995. Três anos mais tarde ingressa na Universidade de Aveiro concluindo a licenciatura em Ensino de Música, área de Piano que conclui com a média final de 15 valores. No ano de 2004/2005 vai para Leeds onde conclui com Mérito o Mestrado em Performance (Piano).

Durante o curso na Universidade de Aveiro minha leccionação de piano esteve ao cargo da Professora Doutora Nancy Lee Harper. O 4º ano do curso foi feito na Irlanda, no âmbito do programa Erasmus, mais concretamente no Waterford Institute of Technology onde estudou piano sob a direcção de Malcolm Proud. A supervisão do mestrado esteve ao cargo do conceituado organista e musicólogo Graham Barber, estando as aulas de piano ao cargo de Renna Kelaway e Dan Gordon.
Actualmente é professor da Escola de Artes do Norte alentejano.
 

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André Brito e Cunha Rodrigues da Costa was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1973 and is widely regarded as being a leading Portuguese pianist, having a quite diverse and versatile career which has encompassed Musicology, Teaching and Performance.

He gained a Bachelor degree in Musicology from the Universidade Nova in 1995, having earlier started studying the Piano with Tania Achot and ultimately graduating from the Conservatório Nacional de Lisboa in 1997 with Ana Valente. Three years later, he entered the University of Aveiro, from which he gained a Bachelor degree in Music Pedagogy, specialising in Piano with Nancy Lee Harper, through which he participated in the Erasmus Programme and also studied at the Waterford Institute of Technology with Malcolm Proud. In 2004 André Costa went to further his studies at the University of Leeds in England, from which he graduated the following year, with a Master degree in Piano Performance with Dan Gordon.

André Costa has performed extensively in Portugal, England the Republic of Ireland including in Lisbon, Coimbra, Figueira da Foz, Setúbal, Portalegre, Waterford, Leeds and elsewhere, having participated in masterclasses by Andrzej Pikul and Thérèse Fahy and Edson Elias. He has also participated in festivals such as the 7º International Music Festival (Coimbra) and Celebrating Great Pianists (Aveiro).

His broad career has involved teaching in the conservatories in Coimbra, Figueira da Foz, Setúbal, Beja and Portalegre where he has held posts as Piano Teacher and Accompanist. More recently, he has embarked on a parallel chamber music career and is part of the Quarteto em Mim, with which he has performed in concert and in radio broadcasts, with critical acclaim.

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