A year later he moved to Cologne and enrolled at the Hochschule für Musik Köln, and studied composition with Henri Pousseur, electronic music with Jaap Spek, and phonetics with Georg Heike, while also taking courses with Karlheinz Stockhausen (Latino 2001).
Harmony, counterpoint, fugue, orchestration, analysis and composition with Edith Lejet (Harmony, Fugue), Bernard de Crepy (Counterpoint), Paul Mefano (Orchestration), Jacques Casterede and Alain Louvier (Analysis), Alain Bancquart and Emmanuel Nunes (Composition) where he obtained Six awards and the "Diplome Superieur" in Composition.
Emmanuel College, Cambridge | Victor Emmanuel III of Italy | Tommy Emmanuel | Victor Emmanuel II of Italy | Emmanuel College | Victor Emmanuel | Emmanuel Nunes | Emmanuel Levinas | Emmanuel Hocquard | Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy | Emmanuel | Instituto Pedro Nunes | Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt | Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie | Emmanuel Jal | Emmanuel Goldstein | Emmanuel Petit | Emmanuel III Delly | Emmanuel Constant | Emmanuel Candès | Emmanuel Berl | Emmanuel Bénézit | Wilhelm Emmanuel Freiherr von Ketteler | Werner Emmanuel Bachmann | Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia | Pierre-Emmanuel Dalcin | Jean-Emmanuel Effa Owona | Emmanuel Uduaghan | Emmanuel (singer) | Emmanuel Pierre-Antoine |
In 1995–6 he was a pupil of Gérard Grisey and Emmanuel Nunes at the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMDP), after which he completed his training with Hartmut Fladt and Jörg Mainka (theory) and with Friedrich Goldmann, Gösta Neuwirth, and Hanspeter Kyburz at the Universität der Künste Berlin.
He has often performed piano works of contemporary composers like Arnold Schönberg, Luciano Berio, György Ligeti, György Kurtág, Wolfgang Rihm, Peter Eötvös, Emmanuel Nunes, Marco Stroppa, James Dillon, Jonathan Harvey, Rudolf Kelterborn.
Azevedo followed several seminars at IRCAM and other institutions, and worked in short periods with composers like Emmanuel Nunes (at the Gulbenkian Foundation), Tristan Murail, Phillipe Manoury, Luca Francesconi, Mary Finsterer, Jorge Peixinho, Louis Andriessen and Simon Bainbridge.