Born in Porto in 1988, pianist Nuno Cernadas was trained at the music universities of Porto, Liszt Academy of Music (Budapest), Freiburg im Breisgau, and Karlsruhe, having studied with Fátima Travanca, Constantin Sandu, Gilead Mishory and Michael Uhde.
Important influences in his trajectory include such prominent pianists as Vitaly Margulis, Anna Zassimova, Ralf Gothóni, Maria Lettberg, Boris Berman, and, most notably, Dina Yoffe and Håkon Austbø, with whom he kept close contact throughout the years.
He is the winner of several national Portuguese piano competitions as well as the 1st prize of the International Piano Competition “Pro‐Piano”, in Bucharest, Romania.
Nuno Cernadas has appeared as soloist alongside the Baden‐Baden Philharmoniker, Orquestra do Norte, Harmos Festival Orchestra, Remix Ensemble, and the Gulbenkian Orchestra, under the baton of Nuno Coelho, Tobias Drewelius, José Ferreira Lobo and Dirk Vermeulen.
Several of his recitals and concerts with orchestra were live recorded for the Portuguese Television and Radio—Antena 2. A video recording of a piano recital was realized by Euroclassical.
Nuno holds a PhD in the Arts by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, after defending in December 2024 his thesis “Let there be light! The creation of an informed colored-light performance of Alexander Scriabin’s late piano sonatas”. His doctorate was supervised by Maarten Stragier and world‐renowned pianists Jan Michiels and Håkon Austbø.