Lourenço studied composition with Carlos Vargas and piano with Joaquim Fernandes at the Conservatório de Música de Setúbal from 1994 till 1999. He has studied composition with Sérgio Azevedo and Christopher Bochmann at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa since 2002 and attended workshops with Emmanuel Nunes in Lisbon in 2003–04. He also studied psychology at the Universidad de Lusófona from 1998 till 2002 and there earned a degree.

He is also active in other positions. As a chorister, he was a baritone with the Coro do Conservatório de Música de Setúbal from 1994 till 1999 and has sung with numerous other choruses in Portugal, including Coro Regina Coeli in Lisbon and Coro Ricercare in Lisbon. He conducted the Coro Dezstaccato in Lisbon in 2003–04 and founded the Coro Odyssea in Lisbon in 2004 and has since served as its artistic director.