[2][3] Ines Thomas Almeida was born in the Dominican Republic and grew up in Portugal as a bilingual and with double nationality.
[4] She also took masterclasses with Teresa Berganza, Krisztina Laki, Hanna Schwarz, Jill Feldman, Claudia Eder and Norman Shetler.
[11] In February 2009, invited by the Embassy of the Dominican Republic in Portugal, she performed with great success the recital Poema en Forma de Canciones at the Palácio Foz in Lisbon with art songs of Ibero-American composers.
She holds a PhD in Historical Musicology from Universidade Nova de Lisboa and was awarded for her dissertation the highest classification unanimously.
Ines Thomas Almeida currently engages as a music lecturer at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa,[17][18] Lisbon Opera House[19] and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.