Vítor Vieira, Violin

Vítor Vieira is a member of the Matosinhos String Quartet (QCM) and the Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble (SAEE), and a professor at the Superior School of Music, Arts and Performance of Porto. With the QCM, he has performed in Portugal’s main concert halls and music festivals and collaborated with prominent musicians, such as pianists Pedro Burmester, António Rosado, and Miguel Borges Coelho, percussionist Pedro Carneiro, violists Tatjana Masurenko and Máté Szucs, and cellists Paulo Gaio Lima and Lázló Fenyo. Selected by the European Concert Hall Organization as a Rising Star for the 2014/15 season, the QCM performed on a tour of 16 concerts in some of Europe’s most important concert halls, including the Barbican Center in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and the Musikverein in Vienna. His students have been awarded prizes in competitions such as the Helena Sá e Costa Prize, Young Musicians Prize, Vasco Barbosa Competition, Capela Competition, City of Fundão International Competition, and Ilda Moura Prize. Vitor Vieira studied with professors Alberto Gaio Lima, Aníbal Lima, and Gerardo Ribeiro, of whom he was also an assistant at Northwestern University (Chicago). 

He has also worked with teachers such as Alexei Mikhline, Sergey Kravchenko, Eduard Wulfson, and Mauricio Fux. He completed specialized studies in string quartet with Rainer Schmidt, violinist of the Hagen Quartet, and worked with members of the Alban Berg, Lasalle, Melos, Emerson, and Vermeer quartets. He was a scholarship holder of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. 

He won the 1st Prize in Violin at the medium and high levels in the Young Musicians Prize competition of RDP. He was also the winner of the Samuel Thaviu string competition in Evanston and the NU Concerto Competition. He has performed as a soloist in some of the country’s main concert halls, including the large auditoriums of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Centro Cultural de Belém, Culturgest, and Casa da Música, with the Gulbenkian Orchestra, Porto National Orchestra, Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, and Portuguese Chamber Orchestra. 

Vítor Vieira is an enthusiast of contemporary music, having worked directly with composers such as John Adams and Karin Renquist. As a member of the QCM and the SAEE, he premiered over 60 works by Portuguese composers.