Adriana de Vecchi was a Portuguese cellist, Montessori-trained educator and founder of a music school for children in Lisbon.

Adriana de Vecchi was born in Viana do Castelo in the north of Portugal on 14 September 1896, to a Portuguese father and an Italian mother.

[1][2][3] Returning to the Portuguese capital of Lisbon in the early 1920s, De Vecchi met her future husband, Fernando Costa, who was also a cellist.

After hearing the lecture, the philanthropist and patron of the arts Sofia Abecassis agreed to provide rooms in her residence for a music school.

[1][2] In 1978, as part of the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of FMAC, an exhibition was held at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon on the theme of “Two Lives, One Work” (Duas Vidas, Uma Obra), about De Vecchi and Costa.