Rui Pedro De Oliveira Alves. Completed the Mestrado in Master of Music in Performance-180 Credits in 2007 by Royal Northern College of Music, Licenciatura in Licenciatura Bietapica em Instrumento, Area:Sopro,Ramo: Trombone (Instrument-Trombone) in 2004 by Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo, Doctor of Philosophy in Doctor of Philosophy in 2014 by Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Postgraduate Certificate in Postgraduate Diploma in Performance-120 Credits in 2005 by Royal Northern College of Music and Postgraduate Certificate in Postgraduate Diploma in Orchestral Training-120 Credits in 2007 by Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Attends the Mestrado in Mestrado em Ensino da Música by Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo since 2018/09. Alves has been a lecturer and Acting Associate Head of Bachelors of Music at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and a lecturer at Minho University - Music Department. Currently Alves is a Lecturer at School of Arts, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Alves is an Integrated Member at CEIS20/ Universidade de Coimbra. Alves has been a reviewer for the Scottish Journal of Performance, the Arts and Humanities Research Council and a member of the organizing and scientific committees for the Brass Research and Scholarship in Scotland Trumpet Forum, the British Trombone Association Trombone Day in Scotland, and the Jornadas do Ensino da Música at the School of Arts – Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Has received 4 awards and/or honors. In their professional activities interacted with 3 collaborator(s) co-authorship of scientific papers. Alves is particularly active on the study and performance of C19th historic brass instruments and repertoire. Recent work has focused on C19th Portuguese repertoires and didactics for brass instruments particularly the transcription and edition of Thiago Calvet’s pieces for brass instruments, Francisco Pinto’s method for trombone. As a freelance trombonist Alves has played, recorded and broadcasted live with some of the leading UK orchestras, most particularly the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and HIP brass specialist ensemble Wallace Collection. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Brass instruments; Organology; Trumpets; 19th Century brass music;