António Vitorino D'Almeida

António Vitorino D'Almeida was born on May 21, 1940 in Portugal. António Vitorino D'Almeida's big-screen debut came with O Cerco directed by António da Cunha Telles in 1970.

António Victorino D'Almeida was the only son of Maria Amélia Goulart de Medeiros, who did a short career as lyric singer, and he was encouraged by his father also known as Victorino D'Almeida, a lawyer, to follow the arts to which he showed an earlier tendency. He was the grandson of Achilles D'Almeida, amateur musician and stage writer and director, and of Odette de Saint-Maurice, who wrote a number of novels aimed at children and young women. He studied composition with Artur Santos and Joly Braga Santos and he studied piano at the Lisbon National Conservatory of Music. He moved to Vienna where he studied further with Wladislav Kedra and Dieter Weber, and graduated from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Thanks to a scholarship granted by the Gulbenkian Foundation he studied contemporary music with Friedrich Cehra and orchestra conducting with Prof. Koslik.