Ka’mi studied guitar, also while attending Architecture and Geology. He graduated in Musicology in 2001 by the UNL-FCSH (Mário Vieira de Carvalho, Rui Vieira Nery, Salwa Castelo-Branco, Manuel Carlos de Brito, Luísa Cymbron and Tomás Henriques, among others).

Then he studied Composition at the ESML (Christopher Bochmann, António Pinho Vargas, Luís Tinoco, João Madureira, Roberto Perez and Sérgio Azevedo, among others).

He attended the Summer Courses in Darmstadt in 2004 (Brian Ferneyhough, Georg Friedrich Haas, Toshio Hosokawa, Chaya Czernowin, Enno Poppe and Wolfgang Mitterer).

In 2005 he attended the Composition Seminars with Emmanuel Nunes at Gulbenkian Foundation.

He was selected for the 3rd (2005) and 5th (2007) Workshop of Gulbenkian Orchestra for young Portuguese Composers with the works Fragment and Glosa (in memoriam), conducted by Guillaume Bourgogne.

In 2006 he graduated in composition and pursued his studies in composition with a post-graduate course with Gerd Kühr in Graz, Austria.

He was selected for the 1st Atelier for Orchestra for young Composers with Algarve Orchestra in 2007.

He attended the IMPULS 2007 seminars in Graz, supervised by Beat Furrer and the ensemble KlangforumWien.

From October 2007 on, he will be producing his Doctorate thesis with Prof. Reinhard Kapp in Vienna, Austria, on the subject of Microtonality.

(written by Portuguese Music Information Centre)