Honors include an Arts and Letters Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and the DSCH Award for her "contribution to the excellence of Portuguese classical music" from the Ministry of Culture of Portugal. She has received commissions from the New York Philharmonic and Los Angeles Philharmonic (with maestro Gustavo Dudamel), European Union Presidency, Tanglewood Music Center/ Boston Symphony Orchestra, Washington Performing Arts (Kennedy Center), São Paulo Symphony Orchestra (OSESP), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, League of American Orchestras and the Toulmin Foundation, Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, National Symphony and National Dance Company of Portugal, and Culturgest/National Bank of Portugal, among others.

Ms. Pinto Correia was the curator of the Fertile Crescent Festival for Contemporary Music at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and composer in residence with contemporary music ensemble OrchestrUtópica (Lisbon). She received the Honorary Title of Fellow of the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, where she was guest composer and conferencist at the ARC Laureate Program for the Deep Human Past and the Indigenous Linguistics Alliance. Recently she was Visiting Associate Professor at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, and is currently composer in residence, faculty and co-curator at the Bowdoin International Festival.

Born and raised in Lisbon, Andreia Pinto Correia studied at the Academia de Amadores de Música, the Hot Clube Jazz School, and the University of Lisbon. She received her Masters and Doctoral of Music degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.