More Than Accompaniment

Camila De Oliveira is a Brazilian pianist, educator, and collaborative artist based in Auckland, New Zealand. She began her musical journey at the age of six and pursued undergraduate studies in piano performance at the Faculdade de Artes Alcântara Machado in Brazil. Camila earned her Postgraduate Diploma in Music, her Master's degree in Piano Performance, and her PhD in Music at the University of Auckland. Her doctoral research evaluated the playability required for performing virtuoso piano repertoire using an ergonomically scaled piano keyboard (ESPK), a keyboard with narrower keys.

In 2024, Camila presented a lecture-recital at the Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference in Melbourne, Australia, and in July 2025, she presented at the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy in Chicago, USA. She has been awarded the Llewelyn Jones Prize in Music for Piano at the University of Auckland in both 2019 and 2020, as well as the APO Aspiring Musician Scholarship…