Almeida, Patrícia Sucena, 1972-

Patrícia Sucena de Almeida was born in 1972 in Coimbra, Portugal.

She is a Portuguese composer, researcher, and music teacher. She studied electroacoustic music and composition at the University of Aveiro (1997). She attended the University of Edinburgh (M.Mus. in composition, 1998), the City University of London and the University of Southampton (PhD in composition, 2004). From 2007 to 2013, she worked on the post-doctoral project Transversal Multi-Art on the interconnection between music and other forms of communication. Almeida has participated in “IRCAM’s Académies d’été,” the “40th International en Ferenkursen fur Neue Musik — 2000” in Darmstadt, the “Cours du Centre Acanthes” 2002 and 2003 at the Chartreuse de Villeneuve-les-Avignon and 2004 in Metz, The I, II and III Gulbenkian’s Workshop for Portuguese Young Composers and several other seminars and workshops. Her work “Fatum Hominis” was selected for the ISCM World Music Days 2005 during the 23rd Music Biennale Zagreb 2005.