Ricardo Alves

He graduated in 2008 from the Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra (A.N.S.O.), in the transverse flute class of Professor Nuno Inácio. He received a scholarship from the National Centre for Culture in 2008 and 2009 for his postgraduate studies in flute and flute history with the famous pedagogue and flautist Trevor Wye at his studio in Kent (UK). In 2014 he completed a postgraduate course in Music Teaching at the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas of Universidade Nova de Lisboa. In 2017 she completed her Master’s Degree in Music Teaching at the Lisbon School of Music, specialising in Instrument – Flute and Chamber Music.

In the 2020, he began his PhD in Music and Musicology at the University of Évora, in Performance.

In March 2019, he published the article ‘Dyslexia – Learning Strategies in Flute Practice’ in PAN (Journal of the British Flute Society). In January 2021, he published ‘Dyslexia: Difficulties and Solutions in Flute Learning and Teaching’ in The Flutist Quarterly (National Flute Association, USA). In December 2021, he published an article in the Bulletin of the Transilvania (University of Braşov) entitled: ‘J.S. Bach – The Authentic Sonata (?) in E Flat Major’.

He is currently teaching at the D. Dinis Music Conservatory – Odivelas, the Jaime Chavinha Music Conservatory – Minde and the Óbidos Music Academy, and is currently completing his PhD in Music and Musicology on the subject of ‘The Interpretative Resources and Aesthetic Appreciation of the Slow Movements of J.S. Bach’s Sonatas for Flute: Study of Performance and Analysis of Input and Output’. In addition to the above, Ricardo Alves also regularly collaborates with the Cascais and Oeiras Chamber Orchestra, the Gulbenkian Orchestra and, since 2006, with the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra. Since 2010 he has been principal flutist of the Lisbon Film Orchestra.