ALMEIDA, Patricia Sucena De

Portuguese composer, researcher and music teacher. She studied Electroacoustic Music and Composition with the Portuguese composer Joao Pedro Oliveira at the University of Aveiro (Portugal) and in 1997 she finished her degree in Music Teaching. In 1998 she graduated with a master's degree in Composition from Edinburgh's University, as a scholarship student of “Fundacao Para a Ciencia ea Tecnologia do Ministerio da Educacao – Portugal, no ambito do 2o Quadro Comunitario de Apoio”. That same year she started a doctorate program (still as a scholarship student) in Composition at City University of London and in 2000 she continued her composition studies at Southampton University with the British composer Michael Finnissy, finishing her PhD in 2004.