Luís Magalhães is a Portuguese pianist and a member of the piano duo TwoPianists with his wife, Nina Schumann. Magalhães started taking piano lessons when he was five, and gave his first concert at nine. He went on to study with Eduardo Rocha, Pedro Burmester, José Alexandre Reis, and Vladimir Viardo. He also participated in master classes with Alicia de Larrocha, Paul Badura-Skoda, and Helena Moreira de Sá e Costa. The winner of many competitions, Magalhães launched an international career, giving performances across Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. Magalhães and Schumann met as graduate students at North Texas State University. They formed the TwoPianists label, where they have recorded works by Bach, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Korngold, and Rachmaninov. ~ Blair Sanderson