At age 22 Sequeira Costa won the Grand Prix Ville de Paris at the Marguerite Long International Piano Competition in Paris and at age 27 he founded the Vianna da Motta International Music Competition is Lisbon. At age 28 he was invited by Dmitri Shostakovich to sit on the jury of the first Tchaikovsky Competition that took place in Moscow in 1958, to which he returned six times.  Sequeira Costa is the last survivor of that competition.

Besides regular appearances as a judge at some of the world's most prestigious international music competitions, including the Chopin, Leeds, Marguerite Long, MontrÈal and Rubinstein, Sequeira Costa teaches extensively in master classes worldwide. Since 1976, he has held the position of Cordelia Brown Murphy Distinguished Professor of Piano at the University of Kansas, USA. Several of his students have been first prize winners at major international piano competitions. 

Throughout his distinguished career, Sequeira Costa has performed at the greatest halls around the world, including the Salle Gaveau and Salle Pleyel in Paris, the Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, Tokyo's Suntori Hall, St. Petersburg's Philharmonic Hall, the Vienna Musikverein, New York's Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and the major London halls. 

He has played with such orchestras as the BBC Orchestras, London Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, Moscow Philharmonic, Prague Symphony, Bamberg Symphony, Japan Philharmonic, Tokyo Metropolitan, Sydney Symphony and Czech Philharmonic. Conductors with whom Sequeira Costa has worked include Paul Kletzki, Joseph Keilberth, Tibor Pesek, Maxim Shostakovich, David Zinman, Christopher Seaman, Dmitri Ktaenko, Eduardo Mata, Rudolf Barshai and Walter Hendl, and he has partnered with fellow artists including Itzhak Perlman, Henryk Szeryng, Elmar Oliveira, Igor Oistrach, Pavel Kogan, Simon Goldberg, Maxim Amphiteatroff, Janos Starker, Tibor Varga, and Edwin Fischer. 

Sequeira Costa's extensive discography includes the solo piano music of Ravel, Chopin, Schumann, Albeniz, Bach/Busoni, Vianna da Motta, Rachmaninov and a CD on the Camerata label dedicated to a selection of 23 encores, entitled 'A Musical Snuffbox'. He has also recorded the complete works for piano and orchestra of Schumann, Rachmaninov and Chopin. Recent releases include the 3rd Volume of the Beethoven Sonatas, and the works of Vianna da Motta on the Marco Polo label. Sequeira Costa is currently undertaking recording the complete cycle of Beethoven's 32 Sonatas.

In 2005, Sequeira Costa played in Washington DC for the Embassy Series on June 9th. He went to Moscow to sit as a judge at the first Sviatoslav Richter competition from June 11th to the 26th.

Sequeira Costa's future plans include completing the 32 Sonatas of Beethoven on CD in the Fall of 2006, with the last 3 Sonatas being recorded in London. He will also tour Japan in October of 2006. Additionally, he will perform Rachmaninov Concerts in Lisbon with the Gulbenkian Orchestra.

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