Born in 1958, Portalegre, Portugal. Holds PhD in area of Music from the University of Extremadura, Spain. He is a retired coordinating professor at the School of Applied Arts (ESART), at the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, where he coordinated the scientific-pedagogical area of Music and Performing Arts between 2002 and 2010, having served as chair of the Scientific Council form 2006 till 2010, in 2010 he was elected as a director of ESART, position he held until January 2019. He coordinated the Master Degree in Music between 2008 and 2011 and the Master Degree in Music Education from 2009 till 2013 at the School of Education (ese) of Castelo Branco. He was, for 22 years, a teacher of music education in elementary education, having cumulatively exercised either in collective or independent regime, taught in various specialized music education institutions, where he taught piano, composition, music education and class of ensemble. He was director of the Conservatory of Portalegre, Covilhã and Belmonte. All along his career he has participated in different work groups, his participation in the work commission of the Performing Arts - Process of Bologna - (Ministry of Science and Higher Education) as responsible for the area of Music is noteworthy. He maintains regular activity as a pianist, in chamber music. He is editor of the journal Convergências and belongs to the scientific and editorial commissions of the journals in education Medi@ções, School of Education (ESE) of Setúbal and the magazine Egitania, of the Polytechnic Institute of Guarda.