Ana Ferreira is a Ph.D student in Music Performance at Aveiro University. She won prizes at the piano competitions in Macao and Portugal. In June 2002, she played with the National Conservatoire Orchestra, J.S. Bach¿s Piano Concerto in f minor, at the Ajuda Palace, in Lisbon. She participated in various piano masterclasses in Europe under distinguished pianists, namely Dimitri Bashkirov, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Helena Sá da Costa, Luiz de Moura Castro, Oxana Yablonskaya, Pedro Burmester, Pierre Réach and Vitaly Margulis. After her graduation at the Superior School of Music and the Arts of Spectacles, she studied piano performance in USA, at the University of Hartford, with distinguished pianists Luiz de Moura Castro and Oxana Yablonskaya. She participated as a younger pianist in some of the most famous international music festivals, such as Puigcerda Music Festival (Andorra), the International Engadin Summer Piano Academy (Switzerland) and the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory where she was selected from the international piano students to play at the famous Rachmaninoff Hall. In Macau, Ana Ferreira was invited to be a research assistant at University Saint Joseph (Macao, China) where she taught Piano, Chamber Music and Music History. She currently holds two Masters degrees with thesis (2016, 2021) focusing on neuroscience, pedagogical strategies, emotional engagement, motivation and music learning. Embracing projects such as "Piano for Everyone" with her teaching approach strongly based on neuroscience , her students have won prizes in Macao Competitions and because of that she received "Excellent Teacher" award by the 21st Japan Hamamatsu Piara Competition. More recently, she is a PhD student in Music Performance at Aveiro University and has been invited to some conferences and concerts.