Helder Sousa (keyboardist, researcher and teacher) was born in Madeira Island (Portugal) and began studying harpsichord and organ at the Conservatório – Escola Profissional das Artes da Madeira, completing his studies in 2006, in the class of Giancarlo Mongelli. That same year she joined the Porto School of Music and Performing Arts (ESMAE), in the class of Ana Mafalda Castro. As part of the ERASMUS programme, he studied at the Conservatorio Statale di Musica Dall’Abaco di Verona in the harpsichord class of Marco Vincenzi and in the chamber music classes of Franco Pavan and Enrico Parizzi. In 2012 he completed his Master’s degree in Music at the Lisbon College of Music with an artistic project dedicated to the work of Pedro de Araújo (c.1630-1707). As part of his music research, he has participated as a performer in the projects ‘La obra musical renascentista’ (Universidad de Valladolid, Spain) and ‘Ver o que o passado (Ou)viu’ (University of Coimbra). As a harpsichordist and organist, he has collaborated with various orchestras and groups, including O Bando de Surunyo and the Quarto Tom Ensemble, and is a founding member and co-artistic director of the Musurgia Ensemble, a group that is now the centre of his artistic activity. He also participated on the recording “Telemann: Recorder Sonatas”, by João Francisco Távora, launched by Coviello Classiscs. He is currently teaching harpsichord at Escola Artística do Conservatório de Música Calouste Gulbenkian de Aveiro and is a researcher on the Mundos e Fundos project (Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies at the University of Coimbra), focusing his research on 16th and 17th centuries Iberian keyboard music.