João Dias Ferreira is a pianist, composer and music teacher, with a BA in Music – Piano Jazz obtained from ESML (Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa). He currently pursues a Post Graduation in Composing and Music Production for Cinema at Lusófona University.

Throughout his artistic career, he won the Rock Rendez Worten competition with the band Chapa Dux, leading to album recordings and a performance at SXSW in Austin, Texas. He participated in international jazz competitions in Frosinone, Italy, and Trebujena, Spain, with the Nebuchadnezzar Group. He received a nomination for the International Portuguese Music Awards in the category of best instrumental composition with the piece Saudades Tuas. He has also performed live on Portuguese national radio Antena 2 and at notable venues and festivals such as Casa da Música (Porto), Teatro São Luís, Festival Musa (Cascais), and SXSW (USA).

From 2019 to 2020, João lived in Croatia, where he collaborated with local musicians. He studied and drew inspiration from Balkan music, which culminated in series of arrangements for an ethno jazz quartet, currently touring in Portugal as Džezva.

João's musical projects include bands such as Chapa Dux (albums: Infinitree 2011, Be Strong 2012, #Onelove 2016), Mimicat, Nebuchadnezzar Group (albums: Nebuchadnezzar 2015, Travellers 2018, Cântico 2022), Manuel Rocha 4tet (album: Manuel Rocha Quarteto 2019), João Ferreira e Darko Misirača Quartet, Saša Nestorović Quartet, Vale (album: Vale 2021), Manuel Rocha (album: Arco 2022), João Ferreira Quintet, and Cinese.

Together with visual artist Marta Fiolić, João founded εntropiα, an artistic collective dedicated to the exploration and fusion of sound, music, and image, with a strong social and community focus. Since then, the collective has developed various projects – a collaborative soundwalk  accompanied by a series of videos with the youth from the Rego neighborhood in Lisbon, as part of the A-Place | Connecting Places through Networked Artistic Practices project, which was highlighted at the New European Bauhaus Festival in Brussels in June 2022; three videos and sound pieces developed during a workshop with Pablo Sanz at the Lisboa Soa festival in August 2022; the collaborative audiovisual installation Passages with the association SOMOS  MULHERES, about women experiencing homelessness in Lisbon; audiovisual exploration with the social inclusion project Aqui há Som in the Algarve region; a workshop on collective creation, exploring and mapping the sounds of Barreiro; and finally, Cinese, a multidisciplinary audiovisual project currently in development.