Career
She is chiefly a classical and jazz musician, moreover her musical style is frequently experimental - contemporary music Her principal instruments are voice, trombone and euphonium. She emigrated with her family to Canada in 1967.
As an artist (fine arts), she signs under the name Guida Almeida and has had her work exhibited on both sides of the Atlantic.
She specialized in Contemporary Music at the Contemporary Music Encounters - Gulbenkian Foundation, Universidade Nova de Lisboa - Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, McMaster University, and at the Lisbon National Conservatory among other places. At these locations her music studies were led by: Jorge Peixinho, Constança Capdeville, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Rui Vieira Nery and others
Besides her solo work, groups in which she presently performs are:
"Longitude Zero" (with Carlos Azevedo, Zeca Neves and Paleka)
Lisbon Chaos Orchestra (with Joana Guimarães, Emílio Robalo, Roger Freitas, Joaquim Correia, Paleka and JS).