Carolina Alves has been collaborating with the Cascais and Oeiras Chamber Orchestra since 2017. Throughout her career, she has performed and recorded with various ensembles and orchestras, including the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, the Porto Symphony Orchestra Casa da Música, the Southern Classical Orchestra, the Al Bustan Festival Orchestra, the Orquestra d’Artes de Almada, and the OpuSpiritum Ensemble.

During her academic training, she was selected to join prestigious youth orchestras such as the Orchestre des Jeunes de la Méditerranée, the Young Franco-German-Hungarian Philharmonics, the Portuguese Chamber Orchestra Zero, and the European Union Youth Orchestra, under the direction of renowned conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Vasily Petrenko, Bernard Haitink, Hannu Lintu, and David Alan Miller. She has performed in major concert halls including the Het Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Konzerthaus (Berlin), Radio Hall (Bratislava), and the Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall.

She regularly performs as a soloist, having appeared with the Wind Orchestra of the Lisbon Superior School of Music, the Cascais and Oeiras Chamber Orchestra, the Leiria Brass Ensemble, and the OpuSpiritum Ensemble.

She holds a Master’s degree in Music Education from the Lisbon Superior School of Music and a Master’s degree in Performance from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig (Germany), where she studied with the renowned professor Guido Segers.