Nuno Cernadas

Docent

  • Piano professor at LUCA School of Arts

  • Holds a PhD in the Arts from VUB with a research project on coloured-light performance of Scriabin’s late piano sonatas

  • Hailed as “a terrific pianist” by BBC Radio 3 and praised for his “fiery and exciting playing” (International Piano)

  • Internationally recognised as a major voice in the interpretation of Alexander Scriabin’s piano music

  • Born in Porto (1988); trained at ESMAE (Porto), Liszt Academy (Budapest), Musikhochschule Freiburg, and Musikhochschule Karlsruhe

  • Studied with Fátima Travanca, Constantin Sandu, István Gulyás, Gilead Mishory, and Michael Uhde

  • Artistic influences include Vitaly Margulis, Anna Zassimova, Ralf Gothóni, Jan Michiels, Maria Lettberg, Boris Berman, Dina Yoffe, and Håkon Austbø

  • Winner of several Portuguese piano competitions and 1st prize at the ProPiano International Competition in Bucharest

  • Performed as soloist with the Baden-Baden Philharmoniker, Orquestra do Norte, Remix Ensemble, and the Gulbenkian Orchestra

  • Worked under conductors such as Nuno Coelho, Tobias Drewelius, José Ferreira Lobo, and Dirk Vermeulen

  • Performances broadcast live by Antena 2 (Portuguese TV & radio); recital video recorded by Euroclassical

  • His 2024 recording of Scriabin’s complete piano sonatas (Etcetera Records) received wide critical acclaim (Luister, Pizzicato, Público)

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