Berta Alves de Souza and Guilhermina Suggia

Berta Alves de Souza had a lifelong relationship with the Conservatory of Music of Oporto. Luiz Costa piano student since the foundation, in parallel studied composition with Lucien Lambert and Claudio Carneiro. From 1927, continued studies with Wilhelm Backhaus, Theodor Szántó, and Composition with Georges Migot. Returning to Portugal in 1929, received private lessons of Vianna da Mota in Lisbon. At the Conservatory of Music in Porto, she became a chamber music teacher in 1946 and a piano teacher in 1949, a position she held until 1977, contributing to the formation of a pleiade of pianists, who integrated the future generations of piano teachers of the Conservatory of Music of Porto. In this photograph is with cellist Guilhermina Suggia who established a very close relationship, was one its accompanying pianists, next to Ernestina da Silva Monteiro and Maria Adelaide Freitas Gonçalves.