Carlos Sánchez Leonardo is a recorder and cornetto player. He has a bachelor's degree in Historical Performance at Porto’s School of Music and the Performing Arts (ESMAE), a master’s degree in Historical Musicology at La Rioja University. His master thesis studies the possibility of using historical temperaments and tuning in the construction of rhetorical discourse. He also has a master's degree in Historical Performance at ESMAE, for that project he had a research fellowship at the CESEM, that consisted in developing an aural methodology for the study of Renaissance polyphony, based in historical models, with the aim of creating a Historical Informed Performer. He is currently attending the PhD program at Universidad de La Rioja and the artistic residency “Towards an Anthology of Portuguese Renaissance Music”, a project organized by CESEM.P.Porto and funded by the EU-Creative Europe program. Carlos has participated in the recordings “Pleiades” with Orquestra Portuguesa de Guitarras e Bandolins, “In splendoribus”, “Missa O Beata Maria” and “A música secreta de Vicente Lusitano” with Arte Minima and “Ad Tenebras” with Capella Sanctae Crucis.