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After graduating from Porto University, he continued his studies in Germany with Marie-Luise Neunecker before receiving his PhD in coaching/performance in 2012 also from Porto University. In addition to his career as a horn player, he studied choral conducting with Gunter Argleb, orchestral conducting with Alvaro Salazar at Porto University, and attended post-graduate master classes with Professor Colin Matters, Jorma Panula and Sir Colin Davis at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Pereira has won awards in competitions such as Leeuwarden International Horn Competition (Holland), Internationaller Instrumentalwettbewerb Markneukirchen (Germany), Concertino Praga (Czech Republic), National Wind Competition (Portugal), Conservatory Souza Lima (Brazil), Arouca´s City Hall (Portugal), National Radio Competition (Portugal) and European Master-Prize (England). He was a founding member of the ARZTIZ Woodwind Quintet, Porto Brass Quintet and Music Director of the Portuguese Horn Ensemble. He has been invited to play, teach and conduct in some of the most prestigious International Music Festivals and Music Schools around the world, such as Miami Summer Music Festival, HALCYON New Hampshire, Stellenbosch Chamber Music Festival, Festival de Musique de Besançon, Ossiach Austria Festspiel, Salzburg Festival, BBC Proms, Diaghilev Festival Perm, Athens Music Fest, Baden-Baden Festspiel, Berlin Festspiel, Aspen Festival, Manly Mozart Festival (San Diego), Indiana University, Lynn University, Memphis University, Miami University, Curtis Institute, Berlin University, Kansas City University and Schleswig Holstein. His solo discography includes: complete Mozart Horn Concerti, URTEXT version of Mozart´s fourth Concerto, Romantic Repertoire for Horn and Piano, R. Strauss 1st Horn Concerto and Mozart Sinfonia Concertante. In 2001 he recorded Mozar second Horn Concerto for the BBC TV Show "Mozart for Children”. As a soloist he has played more than 60 solo concerts with many world class orchestras. He was a professor at ANSO (Lisbon University), ESMAE (Porto University), Royal College of Music (London) Guildhall School of Music (London) and Peabody Conservatory (Baltimore). During his career he held principal positions and has been guest principal with the Porto Symphony, Barcelona Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, London Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony and Berlin Philharmonic. Pereira was in the jury for the European Union Youth Orchestra for 10 years. He did coaching and assistant conducting with the Ossiach Youth Orchestra in Austria, US National Orchestra Institute, US National Youth Orchestra and Schleswig Holstein Orchestra, German and European Youth Orchestras. Was from 2017 to 2021 Principal Conductor of the Kennedy Center Youth Orchestra NSO/Summer Music Institute Orchestra. His conducting experience also includes performances with the Portuguese Philharmonic (Portugal), Porto Chamber Orchestra (Portugal), Lisbon Philharmonic (Portugal), Madrid Chamber Orchestra (Spain), Barcelona Classic Orchestra (Spain), Noya Symphony Orchestra (Spain), Vigo Philharmonic (Spain), Orchestra Sinfonica da Riminni (Italy), Vilnius Chamber Orchestra (Lithuania), Zadar Symphony (Croatia), Rio de Janeiro Orchestra (Brazil), San Jose Symphony (Costa Rica), Washington Philharmonic Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra (Washington DC). 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