Mário Carreira.

Mário Carreira (b. 1962, Lisbon) is a Portuguese classical guitarist and teacher. He studied at the National Conservatoire of Lisbon, at the University of Évora with Manuel Morais, and at the Conservatoire National de Caen with Louis-Marie Feuillet, and studied early music and chamber music with Macario Santiago Kastner, Hopkinson Smith and Anner Bylsma. He has taught guitar at the Conservatório de Música do Porto since 1987.

A specialist in the nineteenth-century guitar, he performs on period instruments, including the terz guitar, and has a particular interest in Spanish music from Tárrega to Falla. He founded the D'Amore Ensemble and has performed in Portugal, Spain, France, Switzerland, Italy, Sweden, Denmark and New Zealand. He has written for the guitar journals Il Fronimo and GuitArt and collaborates with Tecla Editions in London.