 Pires performs as a solo artist and in chamber music.Her many successful recordings include performances of the "Moonlight" and other sonatas by Beethoven, "Le Voyage Magnifique" (the complete impromptus of Schubert), nocturnes and other works by Chopin, and Mozart trios with Augustin Dumay (violin) and Jian Wang (cello).She won the Pessoa Prize in 1989, and founded the Belgais Centre for Study of the Arts in 1999.