One of the most active Brazilian pianists, the carioca EDUARDO MONTEIRO is recognized by critics as one of the greatest exponents of the national piano scene.

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He shared his music with demanding audiences on important stages in Brazil and around the world, such as the Wigmore Hall in London, the Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, the Philharmonie in Cologne, Gasteig in Munich, Sala Verdi in Milan, Liceo in Barcelona, the National Auditorium in Madrid, Dublin's National Concert Hall, University of Houston Opera House and Boston's Jordan Hall.

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Among the conductors with whom he performed, the following stand out: Yuri Temirkanov, Mariss Jansons, Dimitri Kitayenko, Philippe Entremont, Arnold Katz, Sergiu Comisiona, Emil Tabakov, Kirk Trevor, Asher Fisch, Isaac Karabitchevsky, John Neschling, Roberto Minczuk, Fábio Mechetti , Roberto Tibiriçá and Eleazar de Carvalho.

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He has been a soloist with leading orchestras in the country and with renowned orchestras abroad, including the St Petersburg Philharmonic, Moscow Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Novosibirsky Symphony, Spanish Radio and Television Orchestra, Irish National Symphony and Bremen Philharmonic.

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He has participated in programs and recorded for Bayerischer Rundfunk, NDR, WDR, Rundfunk Hessincher, Süddeustcher Rundfunk (Germany), BBC (England), RTE (Ireland), Netherlands Radio, Radio New Zealand, France Musique, Texas Public Radio, Radio Canada and Radio Cultura.

He is frequently requested to teach classes and perform concerts at important festivals, such as Campos do Jordão, FEMUSC, SESC Pelotas, Texas Music Festival and Folle Journée do Rio de Janeiro, having performed an opening concert in the latter two.

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He created and directed the Piano Solo series, which took place at Sala Cecília Meireles in Rio de Janeiro and at Teatro Municipal and Sala Promon in São Paulo. This series promoted the meeting of renowned soloists such as Nelson Freire, Cristina Ortiz and Diana Kacso and Eduardo Monteiro himself with young talents who performed at the opening of each concert.

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His first CD Eduardo Monteiro - piano, was recorded during the acclaimed recital held at the Teatro Cultura Artística de São Paulo, in 2005, in celebration of the tenth anniversary of Revista Concerto. Two years later, the CD Piano Music of Brazil, by the English label Meridian Records, was released, with a recital at London's Wigmore Hall, having received rave reviews in the most prestigious international specialized magazines. In 2010, he participated in the series Piano: uma História da 300 anos, which was released on DVD the following year, by the SESC label. In 2013, he recorded another CD, dedicated to the chamber music work of Henrique Oswald, with the collaboration of Ensemble São Paulo.

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At a very young age, he won the main piano awards in Brazil. Abroad, he reached, unanimously, the first place in the III International Piano Competition in Cologne, Germany, in 1989, also obtaining the prize for “Best Interpreter of Beethoven” for his version of the Concerto n° 4. He was still laureate in the II International Piano Competition in Dublin, Ireland, in 1991, and the following year, at the IX International Piano Competition in Santander, Spain. He was awarded the Carlos Gomes Music Award twice in a row (2004 and 2005).

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His solid training was acquired through studies in different countries. In Brazil, he completed his Bachelor's Degree in 1987 and a Master's Degree in 1993 at the School of Music of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; in France, he obtained the title of Doctor in Musicology from the University of Paris IV – Sorbonne, in 2000, and improved with the pianist Dominique Merlet; in Italy during the 1996-97 season he was one of five pianists selected worldwide by the Fondazione Internazionale per il Pianoforte, on Lake Como, to work under the guidance of musicians such as Alexis Weissemberg, Leon Fleisher, Dmitri Bashkirov, Fou Ts' ong, Karl-Ulrich Schnabel, Rosalyn Turek and Charles Rosen; and finally, in the United States, in 2002 he obtained the Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, in the class of Wha-Kyung Byun.

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In 2002, he became professor of piano at the Music Department of the School of Communications and Arts at USP, where he develops a remarkable training work with young pianists. Since then, its students have won dozens of important prizes in competitions in the country and abroad, especially Cristian Budu, who won first prize at the 25th Clara Haskil International Piano Competition, in Switzerland. Since 2017 he has been a Full Professor.

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Between 2008 and 2010, he was a member of the Music Consultative Chamber of the São Paulo State Council of Culture. In 2012 he became head of the ECA Music Department, in 2016 he directed the USP Symphony Orchestra (OSUSP) and was Director (2017-2021) of the USP School of Communications and Arts and is currently its Deputy Director.