Norberto Macedo was born in Barcos, Tabuaço,  province of Alto Douro, Portugal, in 1939, and came to Brazil in 1952. He is a recitalist on the guitar and lute, composer, and professor of classical guitar. Among his compositions, about a hundred, are choros, sambas, etudes, preludes, arrangements, and four suites: "Suite para Portinari", "Suite Dom Quixote" (twenty-one pieces based on the drawings of the Brazilian painter Cândido Portinari), "Suite para Rosana", and "Suite Seresteira" (part of a method with Mário Mascarenhas). His recordings comprise two LPs for RCA Victor: "Meu violão… minha seresta…" and "Villa Lobos, recital de violão", one for Discos Copacabana "Violão em recital de gala", a cassette tape "Romance de Amor" (independent production), and two CDs "Portinari 90 Anos - Coração Brasileiro" for Kuarup Discos, and "Alto Macabu" produced by his own label "Serestrelo". He has had his own radio programs on Rádio MEC (run by the Ministry of Education), Rádio Mundial, and Rádio Rio de Janeiro, and participated in various others by invitation. He is the co-author, with Mário Mascarenhas, of a classical guitar method "Iniciação ao Violão por Música" published by Irmãos Vitale S/A, São Paulo. During many years, recordings of Norberto were used as prefixes of Rádio MEC, and as character themes of Brazilian television series. Two compositions were used for the background of the video "Menino de Brodosqui" , part of the weekly documentary series "Globo Reporter" of TV Globo, and various others used in the video "Um Cândido Pintor Portinari" of TVE (the education channel). Norberto has appeared in various newpaper articles in Brazil and Porgugal, as well as in national and international magazines. He has given recitals in many location of greater Rio de Janeiro  and in other municipalities of the state, as well as in other states of Brazil and in Portugal. Highlights of the last few years are:

• Two visits to his native Portugal where he gave recitals in Tabuaçu, Barcos, Estoril, Lisbon and Évora.
• A recital at the Cultural Center of  Banco do Barsil (one of the federal banks) in São Paulo at the event: Casamento na Roça, Portinari, imagem poesia e música¹.
• A recital at the Magistrature Shool of Rio de Janeiro (EMERJ) at the book signing event for Dom Quixote - 400 anos de Paixão² where he played various pieces from the suite Dom Quixote-Portinari.
• Sound track for the CD-ROM Espirito das Aguas³, production of the Portuguese painter DAD and poet André Moa.
• Background music for the opening page of the CD-ROM accompanying the Catalogue Raissoné  of the works of the Brazilian painter Cândiso Portinar produced by the Projeto Portinari.
• Participation in the Rádio Nacional broadcast on the programs Rádio Memória⁴ and Onde Canta o Sabiá⁵ hosted by Gerdal dos Santos.
• Recital at the 7^th Mill of Knowledge of the School of Industrial Marketing (EMI) with introduction by Jõao Cândido Portinari of the Projeto Portinari.