Paula Almeida

Paula Almeida was born in Lisbon in 1963 and moved to Oeiras as a child.
She has a degree in Secretarial Administration from the Instituto Superior de Línguas e Administração - Escola Superior de Secretariado - Lisbon.
She works in Mapa since 2018.
She likes music, particularly classical music, and travelling.
She loves animals, all of them, and currently has three dogs.

My object

"We must first educate the soul through music and then the body through gymnastics," said Plato.
Music has the ability to translate feelings, inspire emotions and is a universal language of communication.
I chose the violin, perhaps the most difficult musical instrument, because my dream was to be able to play it. I grew up listening to classical music and have been going to concerts since I was very young. I come from a family of professional musicians. My father is a musician and played double bass in the GNR band, as he is a GNR military officer, and also played in the Rádio Difusão Portuguesa orchestra and the Gulbenkian orchestra.