Hugo Soeiro Sanches was born in Oporto, Portugal in 1973. He holds the following degrees: PhD summa cum laude - Musical Studies, Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FLUC, University of Coimbra); MMus & BMus - Performance, Early Music, Lute, Oporto School of Music and Performing Arts (ESMAE, Porto Polytechnic, P.Porto); PgD - Music Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Oporto. Hugo's career develops along three vectors: teaching, performance and research. In the field of teaching, he is adjunct professor (polytechnic professor) at ESMAE, where he is currently head of the Early Music department. At ESMAE, Hugo teaches Historical Music Theory and Performance, Chamber and Large Ensemble Music, and Basso Continuo since 2010. Outside the specialised field of early music, he teaches Research Methodology in the Master's Programme in Performance at the same college. He was also guest assistant professor at FLUC from 2019 to 2022, where he taught Western Music and Culture. As a musician, Hugo specialises in historical performance of renaissance and baroque music. In this field, his career to date may be divided into two stages. During his early years as an instrumentalist he performed extensively as a soloist and as a chamber musician with renowned ensembles such as “L'Incogniti”, “Arte Minima”, “Os Músicos do Tejo”, Casa da Música Baroque Orchestra, Venice Baroque Orchestra and “Sete Lágrimas”. In recent years, he has devoted the greater part of his artistic activity to directing “O Bando de Surunyo”, an ensemble he created in 2015 with the main mission of recovering, performing and disseminating unpublished and little-known music from Portuguese sources. The ensemble has perfromed extensively, presenting over 40 modern premiers of unknown Portuguese and Spanish 17th century works. The ensemble also performs early modern European canonical repertoire. Hugo works as researcher under project “Mundos e Fundos. Methodological and Interpretive Worlds of Musical Collections” of FLUC's Center for Classical and Humanistic Studies (CECH). He specializes in Iberian 17th century vernacular music. His research materializes not only on the academic front, through papers and written work, but also in performance, through the concerts of the above-mentioned ensemble, “O Bando de Surunyo”. As researcher at CECH, Hugo has presented conferences on themes related to historical performance practice and the exegesis of early modern documentary sources at more than twenty scientific meetings, including the III and X Meetings on Music Research (ENIM), the 1st Brazilian Symposium of Musicology, the Jornadas Mundos e Fundos, the conference Tracking the Creative Process in Music (United Kingdom), and the congress Musicología aplicada al concierto: los estudios sobre performance en acción (Spain). He has, so far, published two peer-reviewed articles. “Música, Poesia e Eloquência. Os Textos e Contextos da Música na Península Ibérica dos séculos XVI e XVII” (2023) focuses on Iberian music of the early modern period with emphasis on the relationship between poetry and music, and their contexts of production and reception. “Vindes de guerra ou de paz? – Elementos teatrais e políticos na música seiscentista do mosteiro de Santa Cruz de Coimbra” (2022) brings to light and examines political and theatrical aspects of Portuguese 17th century music.