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Adelaide Pereira da Silva

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Adelaide Pereira da Silva (São Paulo, July 5, 1928 - São Paulo, August 8, 2021) was a Brazilian pianist, composer and painter. Biography Adelaide Pereira da Silva was born in São Paulo. She started studying piano with her mother from an early age, and later with Nair de Souza. She became a well-accomplished pianist, when she took advanced interpretation classes with Professor Hans Bruch. According to pianist Gilberto Tinetti, she was one of Bruch’s most talented students, along with Tinetti himself; Isolde Bass, Bruch’s wife; Rudolf Frisch; Elisa Capocchi; Arnaldo Antunes; Maria Elisa Figueiredo; and Roberto Delollio. In her thesis, as well as in an article about Pereira da Silva’s compositions, Maria Mati Sakamoto quotes Gilberto Tinetti, who referred to Prof. Pereira da Silva’s “exuberant sonority” as a pianist. Initially, Adelaide Pereira da Silva studied composition with Dinorah de Carvalho and Osvaldo Lacerda. Later, she was Camargo Guarnieri’s student, and became one of the major figures of his composition school, along with famous composers such as Lacerda, Almeida Prado, , Nilson Lombardi, Lina Pires de Campos and Kilza Setti. She began working as a music teacher in 1960, a

Alberto Nepomuceno

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Alberto Nepomuceno (July 6, 1864 – October 16, 1920) was a Brazilian composer and conductor. Career and music Nepomuceno was born in Fortaleza, the capital of the state of Ceará in Northeastern Brazil. His parents were Vitor Augusto Nepomuceno and Maria Virginia de Oliveira Paiva. He began to study music with his father, a violinist, organist, teacher and chapel-master at the Fortaleza Cathedral. In 1872, Nepomuceno and his family moved to Recife, also in Northeastern Brazil, where he initiated piano and violin studies. He went on to become an outspoken defender of Republican and Abolitionist causes in Brazil, and was active in campaigns that ultimately led to the overthrow of the Monarchy and the establishment of the First Brazilian Republic in 1889. At the age of eighteen, he became director of the Clube Carlos Gomes (Carlos Gomes Club) in Recife. In 1885, a series of songs in Portuguese by Nepomuceno was premiered at the Brazilian Musical National Institute. The concert was intended at defying those who thought Portuguese was inappropriate for the bel canto. As criticism poured, he embarked on a battle against newspapers and music critics. His struggle on behalf of nationalism in c

Alexandre Levy

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Alexandre Levy (10 November 1864 – 17 January 1892) was a Brazilian composer, pianist and conductor. Born in São Paulo, he pioneered a fusion of classical composition with Brazil’s popular folk music and rhythms. His hometown grants a prestigious award in his name. His Jewish family came from France and was musically active. His father, Henrique Luís Levy, was a musician who founded , a leading music store in São Paulo. Darius Milhaud, in his ballet Le Bœuf sur le toit, borrowed a theme from Levy’s Tango Brasileiro. Selected list of works Orchestra * Andante para cordas in E-flat major (1887) for String Orchestra (1887) * Werther, Symphonic Poem in E-flat major after Goethe (1888) * Marcha com coros, Orchestral Cantata (1888) * Hymne à 14 Juillet (1889) * Symphony in E minor (1889) ** Largo - allegro molto ** Andante ** Scherzo. Allegro vivo ** Allegro molto vivo * Comala, Symphonic Poem (1890) * Suite Brésilienne (1890) ** Prélude ** Dansa rustica: Canção Triste (lost) ** A beira do regato: Idyllio Sentimental ** Samba * Symphonic Poem (unnamed; n.d.) * Oedipe, Orchestral Cantata (n.d.) Chamber Music * Fantasia brillante sull’opera ‘Il Guarany’ for two pianos, Op. 2 (1880) * Piano

Almir Chediak

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Almir Santana Chediak (June 21, 1950 – May 25, 2003) was a Brazilian musical producer, entrepreneur, publisher, guitarist, teacher, composer, writer and researcher. Almir Chediak was born into a Lebanese immigrant family and grew up on the state of Minas Gerais. He showed an early aptitude for music, starting guitar lessons at 7. As he moved to live in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 13, he started studying guitar under the instructions of reputed guitarist of that time Dino 7 Cordas. Precociously at age of 17, Chediak already began working professionally as a guitar instructor and also scoring soundtracks for films directed by Jece Valadão and others, also writing string and horn arrangements for recording sessions. Still young, he recorded a single with the actress and Belgian model living in Brazil Annik Malvil, introducer of the little tube dress fashion in the 1960s. His students included the likes of Gal Costa, Nara Leão, Cazuza, Tim Maia, Carlos Lyra, and Elba Ramalho, among numerous others. In 1984, Almir Chediak launched his first book “The Dictionary of Notated Chords” and in 1986 he founded his own publishing house, the “Lumiar Record”. At the same year, he launched his sec

Aloísio de Oliveira

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Aloísio or Aloysio de Oliveira (December 30, 1914 – February 4, 1995), also known as Louis Oliveira, was a Brazilian record producer, singer, actor and composer. A key figure in the internationalization of Brazilian popular music, he contributed to Carmen Miranda’s career abroad with his own musical ensemble: Bando da Lua, which he founded in 1929 with Hélio Jordão Pereira, Afonso Osório, Stênio Osório, Armando Osório, Osvaldo Éboli, Ivo Astolfi, Diego Astolfi and some other cousins of the latter for a total of 12 people. With the death of Miranda in August 1955 the group disbanded. Back in Brazil, Aloísio directed the command of Odeon Records, then created his own record label: the Elenco, producing dozens of discs and launching important names of bossa nova as Tom Jobim. Biography Aloísio graduated in dentistry, but never practiced this profession. From an early age, he had a strong relationship with music. In 1929, Aloísio joined Bando da Lua band and already in 1931 the group recorded their first album 78 rpm, in which he sang one of the two tracks, samba Tá de Mona. Later, in 1939, he traveled to the United States with his group to accompany Carmen Miranda (with whom he had a

Amy Horrocks

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Amy Elise Horrocks (23 February 1867 – 4 December 1919) was an English music educator, composer (particularly of songs) and pianist, born to English parents (Francis James Horrocks 8 July 1829 – 27 April 1913) and Hannah Horrocks (née Allen 1833 – 22 April 1913) in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, where it is suggested that Francis Horrocks was constructing tramways. Amy had an elder sister, Marian, also born in Brazil, but who died there in 1862 aged 1 year. Contrary to one report, she did not have a brother. She had a close association with the Royal Academy of Music as both a student, teacher and Fellow and enjoyed a degree of professional success, including several performances of her work at the Proms. Early life The family (Francis, Hannah, Amy aged 4 and their servant Mary Thompson) are recorded in the Scottish census of 1871, as lodgers in Edinburgh, so presumably they left Brazil between 1867 and 1871 and are possibly taking a holiday. When they return from Brazil the family settles initially in Cheshire. Francis had a loose family connection to the area with his elder brother Thomas having been born and died in Chester as an infant in 1827, during the time their father (also ca

Andersen Viana

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Andersen Viana (born 1962) is an international composer. Life Born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Viana has a Ph.D. in music composition from the Federal University of Bahia. He began composing at the age of thirteen and became a professor at the age of nineteen. He has studied with his father – Sebastiao Vianna – and in courses and seminars about music and film in several official institutions at Accademia Chigiana di Siena, Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna, Arts Academy of Rome, Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Federal University of Bahia, among others. He currently works as a composer and a professor at the Clóvis Salgado Foundation in Brazil, in addition to offering lectures and workshops in various institutions both in Brazil and abroad. His first teacher was his father, Sebastião Vianna (assistant and reviser for the Brazilian composer, Heitor Villa-Lobos), and most recently furthered his studies in other institutions in Brazil, Italy, and Sweden. He has also published over forty articles both in Brazil and Europe. Viana has received 37 composition awards in Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, Serbia, Spain, Ukr

André Filho

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Antônio André de Sá Filho, known as André Filho (21 March 1906 – 2 July 1974) was a Brazilian actor, violinist, mandolinist, banjo player, guitarist, pianist, composer and singer. He worked with some of Brazil’s most notable performers of the 1930s including Carmen Miranda, Mário Reis and Noel Rosa. Recordings * 1930 - Mamãezinha está dormindo * 1930 - Eu quero casar com você * 1930 - O meu amor tem * 1930 - Quando a noite desce (with Roberto Borges) * 1932 - Mulato de qualidade * 1931 - Bamboleô * 1933 - Alô… Alô? * 1933 - Filosofia (with Noel Rosa) * 1934 - Cidade Maravilhosa * 1935 - S.O.S. * 1937 - Baiana do tabuleiro * 1937 - Primavera da vida (with Almanyr Grego) * 1941 - Cinzas no coração References Literature * ALBIN, Ricardo Cravo (Criação e Supervisão Geral). Dicionário Houaiss Ilustrado da Música Popular Brasileira. Rio de Janeiro: Paracatu, 2006. * MORAIS JUNIOR, Luis Carlos de. O Sol nasceu pra todos:a História Secreta do Samba. Rio de Janeiro: Litteris, 2011.

André Mehmari

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André Ricardo Mehmari (born April 22, 1977) is a Brazilian pianist, composer and arranger. His works were played by the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo (OSESP), Orquestra Petrobras Sinfônica and Orquestra Amazonas Filarmônica, among other Brazilian orchestras. In popular music, he played and recorded albums with the mandolinist Hamilton de Holanda and the singer Ná Ozzetti. He likes playing improvisations since an early age. He has performed in all of Brazil’s major jazz festivals and abroad at Umbria Jazz in Italy and Juan Les-Pins in France. Awards * Prêmio Nascente (USP-Editora Abril) - category Popular Music-Composer (1995) and category Classical Music-Composer (1997). * 1° Prêmio Visa de MPB Instrumental (1998). Discography * (1998) Odisséia (with Célio Barros and Sérgio Reze) • PMC records * (2000) Canto • Núcleo Contemporâneo * (2001) Improvisos (with Célio Barros and Sérgio Reze) * (2003) Lachrimae • CAVI Records * (2004) Nonada (quintet with Proveta, Teco Cardoso, Tutty Moreno and Rodolfo Stroeter) * (2005) MPBaby Internacional: Beatles (solo) - Vol. 10 * (2005) Piano e Voz (with Ná Ozzetti) * (2007) Continua Amizade (with Hamilton de Holanda) * (2007) DVD Piano

André Moraes

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André Moraes (born 6 March 1977 as André Torres Moraes) is a Brazilian Latin Grammy-nominated musician, film director, music producer and soundtrack composer. He has worked in the entertainment industry for two decades. He has been married to actress Ana Carolina Machado since 24 August 2010. Career André began studying classical music and blues guitar at the age of 6 inspired by his father, Geraldo Moraes. He then studied film music under the tutelage of David Tygel and Gabriel Yared. While still a teen, he relocated to Rio de Janeiro and co-formed music group Infierno, which toured and released a full-length album. In 1997, at age 20, he composed his first soundtrack score, for No Coração dos Deuse (In the Heart of the Gods), directed by his father, working alongside Faith No More member Mike Patton. To date, Andre has composed 45 film scores, eight short-film scores and music for four TV shows. Among his works, he has composed for Assalto ao Banco Central, Meu Tio Matou um Cara, O Coronel e o Lobisomem, Melhor Trilha Sonora, Viva Sapato! and Lisbela e o Prisioneiro. In addition, André has served as producer for several albums, including Dante XXI by Sepultura, Guns N’ Roses keyb

Antônio Carlos Jobim

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Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (25 January 1927 – 8 December 1994), also known as Tom Jobim (), was a Brazilian composer, pianist, guitarist, songwriter, arranger and singer. Jobim is considered a great exponent of Brazilian music and one of the fathers of bossa nova for having merged samba with cool jazz in the 1960s as a pioneer of the genre. He is also regarded as one of the most celebrated songwriters of the 20th century, and his compositions have been played and recorded by many singers and instrumentalists internationally since the early 1960s. Jobim is best known for his composition “Garota de Ipanema (The Girl from Ipanema)”, which has been recorded over 240 times by other artists, and is believed to be one of the most recorded popular songs in history. Along with “Garota de Ipanema,” many of Jobim’s compositions are included in jazz and pop standard repertoires. Several of these compositions are featured on the 1964 album Getz/Gilberto, which won the Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Instrumental Album – Individual or Group, Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, and was the first jazz record to win Album of the Year. The recording of “Garota de Ipanema” that features

Antônio Maria

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Antônio Maria de Araújo Morais, known as Antônio Maria (17 March 1921—15 October 1964), was a Brazilian writer of pop music lyrics as well as radio sports commentator, poet, composer, and chronicler. Career At 17 he got his first job presenting a musical program at Pernambuco’s Radio club. In 1940, he arrived in Rio de Janeiro, “with four changes of clothing and five quid in the pocket”, to work as a sports commentator for Radio Ipanema. The job didn’t last long and he went back to Recife, where he married Maria Gonçalves Ferreira in May 1944. By 1948, he was back in Rio. His family now increased by a son and daughter, Rita and Antônio Maria Filho, he took a position as Rádio Tupi’s production director, and was also a feature writer for the “O Jornal” newspaper. Antônio Maria wrote daily features for more than 15 years - a daily account of what was going on in Rio de Janeiro. Up until 1955, his by-line appeared on “Long is The Night - A Noite É Grande”, the “Antônio Maria Report - Jornal de Antônio Maria” and “Copacabana Cop’s Story - Romance Policial de Copacabana”. In his Cop’s Story column, Antônio Maria would frequently interview the protagonists of the moment, right in the pol

Antônio Pinto (composer)

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Antônio Alves Pinto (born 1967) is a Brazilian film score composer. He is the son of the famous cartoonist Ziraldo and the brother of the film-maker Daniela Thomas. His work earned him a World Soundtrack Award and an ASCAP award, as well as a nomination in the Best Original Song category at the 65th Golden Globe Awards for writing the song “Despedida” with Shakira. He has collaborated with director Asif Kapadia a number of times, providing the scores for Kapadia’s biographical documentaries Senna, Amy and Diego Maradona. They are said to be collaborating on dystopian documentary 2073. He composed the soundtrack to The Mosquito Coast and played the key instruments. Filmography *1994: Menino Maluquinho - O Filme *1995: Socorro Nobre *1998: O Primeiro Dia *1998: Menino Maluquinho 2 - A Aventura *1998: Central Station *1999: Notícias de Uma Guerra Particular *2001: Behind the Sun *2001: Palíndromo *2001: Onde a Terra Acaba *2002: City of Men (TV series) *2002: City of God *2002: A Janela Aberta *2004: Crónicas *2004: Nina *2004: Collateral (additional music) *2005: Lord of War *2005: All the Invisible Children *2005: Jonny Zero (TV series) (theme music) *2006: Journey to the End of the

Arnaldo Freire

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Arnaldo Freire is a Brazilian guitarist, teacher, cultural producer and composer. Composition Arnaldo Freire is an alumnus of Consevatório Musical Guarulhos and also studied at the Conservatory of Music and the Instituto Paulista Booklyn Souza. He is currently majoring in Composition course at the Federal University of Goiás – UFG. His composition “Apocalypse” for solo guitar was awarded by the Culture Secretariat of Goiânia. The award-winning short film by Roxanne Towers, “Catadores de Papel “, has an original score by Arnaldo Freire. Freire has also composed soundtracks: “Entre Memórias e Conquistas”, “Umas e Outras” and “Maria da Gruta” which were all directed by Lázaro Ribeiro. In his compositions, there are Brazilian techniques mixed with refined approaches: modinhas, frevos, sambas, valsas and other colors are mixed with post-tonal techniques, refined counterpoints and unusual instrumentation. The work of composition is quoted in Arnaldo Freire Guia de Música Contemporânea Brasileira, edited by CDMC – Brasil / Unicamp, a subsidiary of the Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine, based on Cité de la Musique, Parc de la Villette, in Paris. Achille Picchi, Eduardo Es

Arthur Napoleão dos Santos

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Arthur Napoleão dos Santos (6 March 1843 – 12 May 1925) was a Portuguese composer, pianist, instrument dealer and music publisher. He was brother of Aníbal Napoleão and Alfredo Napoleão, who like Arthur were pianists and composers. Biography He was born in Porto, Portugal, and gave his first piano concert at the age of 7. When he was 8, supported by Ferdinand II of Portugal, Napoleão gave his first international concerts, visiting cities such as London (where he played at the Portuguese Embassy in the city) and Paris. Thereafter he toured all over Europe and America, sometimes playing duets with Henri Vieuxtemps or Henryk Wieniawski. At age 15, he performed in New York and critic Richard Storrs Willis attended “out of curiosity to see the sort of child that tickles Europe”. Willis was impressed and noted him as “an extraordinary performer… His touch is exquisitely full of tenderness; his precision almost unerring; his power more than respectable, and his rounding of musical thought perfectly delightful.” In 1866 he settled in Brazil, living in Rio de Janeiro. Here he set up shop to sell instruments and publish sheet music. He taught piano lessons, one of his pupils was Chiquinha

Ary Barroso

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Ary Evangelista de Resende Barroso (Portuguese pronunciation: ; 7 November 1903 – 9 February 1964) was a Brazilian composer, pianist, soccer commentator, and talent-show host on radio and TV. He was one of Brazil’s most successful songwriters in the first half of the 20th century. Barroso also composed many songs for Carmen Miranda during her career. Biography Born on 7 November 1903, Ary Barroso was the most influential pre-bossa nova composer in Brazil. Barroso’s songs were recorded by a lengthy list of artists including Carmen Miranda and João Gilberto. His 1939 composition Aquarela do Brasil, known in the English-speaking world as Brazil, was featured in the 1942 Disney film Saludos Amigos, and has gone on to become one of the 20 most recorded songs of all time. His song Na Baixa do Sapateiro, based on a Brazilian pop tune, was included in the Disney film The Three Caballeros and popularised as Baía. Barroso’s soundtrack for the movie Brazil was nominated for an Oscar in 1945. Although he failed to win, Barroso was presented a Merit Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his work. In 1955, Barroso received the National Order of Merit, the greatest honour

Ary Toledo

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Ary Christoni de Toledo Piza (August 22, 1937 – October 12, 2024) was a Brazilian humorist, singer, lyricist, and actor. Life and career Toledo was born in 1937 in Martinópolis, São Paulo. first working at Teatro de Arena de São Paulo. He was also a singer and lyricist; his jokes drew humor from the difference between Brazilians and Portuguese. He wrote around 60,000 jokes and described himself as a “garimpeiro of humor”. Music was his hobby. During the Brazilian military government AI-5 he was imprisoned for his anti-government satire, but was soon freed due to his popularity. Ary Toledo died in São Paulo on October 12, 2024, at the age of 87. Published works Books * Descobrimento do Brasil (with Chico de Assis) * Modinha de ser * Ovos que a galinha pôs * Tiradentes * Os Textículos de Ary Toledo (A Anarquia da Filosofia) (2011) Discography * No Fino Da Bossa (1968–1988) RGE FERMATA LP * Ary Toledo (1970) * Antologia do Sexo (1979) Copacabana LP * Pois é (1982) Copacabana LP * Na Base do Riso Explícito (1985) Copacabana LP * Ary Toledo Ao vivo (1968) RGE LP * A Todo Vapor (2008) Songs As well as being a writer of jokes, he has also written satirical songs such as: * A moda do Zé *

Brasílio Itiberê da Cunha

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Brasílio Itiberê da Cunha (1 August 1846 – 11 August 1913) was a Brazilian composer, lawyer and diplomat. Itiberê was the sibling of poet and critic (literary and musical) and uncle of composer . Biography Brasílio Itiberê was born in the coastal city of Paranaguá, the son of João Manuel (Itiberê?) da Cunha and Maria Munhoz Lourenço da Cunha. He attended primary school in his homeland and his musical initiation was at the piano, learning at his parents’ home. Already renowned as a pianist in his youth he moved to São Paulo to attend the Faculty of Law at the Largo of São Francisco, performing several concerts in this city. After obtaining a BA in Law he joined the diplomatic service in the diplomatic corps serving in Italy, Peru, Belgium, Paraguay and Germany. Without leaving music aside, Brasílio maintained friendly relations with some of the greatest pianists of his time such as Anton Rubinstein, Sgambati and Liszt. Considered to be one of the forerunners of Brazilian nationalistic music Itiberê drew early inspiration from popular motifs and his work and style are distinctly Brazilian. He composed chamber and choral music and works for piano solo. His rhapsody A Sertaneja was pop

Cacilda Borges Barbosa

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Cacilda Campos Borges Barbosa (18 May 1914 – 6 August 2010) was a Brazilian pianist, conductor and composer. She was one of the pioneers of electronic music in Brazil. After completing her education, Barbosa worked as a pianist playing waltzes and chorinhos to dance groups and compose pieces for them. In the 1950s she published the first volume of the series “Estudos Brasileiros para Canto” and became conductor of the Radio Mayrink Veiga orchestra. Barbosa worked with Heitor Villa-Lobos from 1930, and served as director of the Instituto Villa-Lobos. She became a professor for chamber ensemble of the National School of Music at the University of Brazil and professor of counterpoint and fugue at the Popular School of Music Education. She also directed a number of orchestras and choir ensembles. Works Barbosa composed a number of works, many with a strong Brazilian theme. She also composed a number of pieces of orchestral music and chamber music together with pieces for teaching piano students. Selected works include: *Procissão da Chuva - Poem: Wilson Rodrigues *Estudos Brasileiros *Trio for Reeds *Rio de Janeiro Suite for strings (1st mov) *Rio de Janeiro Suite for strings (2nd mov)

Camargo Guarnieri

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Mozart Camargo Guarnieri (February 1, 1907 – January 13, 1993) was a Brazilian composer. Guarnieri was born in Tietê, São Paulo. He studied piano, composition, and conducting in São Paulo and Paris. His compositions received significant recognition in the United States during the 1940s, leading to conducting opportunities in major American cities. A key figure in the Brazilian national school, Guarnieri served as a conductor, a member of the Academia Brasileira de Música, and Director of the São Paulo Conservatório. His extensive oeuvre includes symphonies, concertos, operas, chamber music, piano pieces, and songs. Regarded by some as the most important Brazilian composer after Heitor Villa-Lobos, Guarnieri was awarded the Gabriela Mistral Prize shortly before his death. Name Guarnieri was born in Tietê, São Paulo, and registered at birth as Mozart Guarnieri, but when he began a musical career, he decided his first name was too pretentious. Thus he adopted his mother’s maiden name Camargo as a middle name, and thenceforth signed himself M. Camargo Guarnieri. In 1948, he legally changed his name to Mozart Camargo Guarnieri, but continued to sign only the initial of his first name. G

Carlos Cachaça

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Carlos Cachaça (born Carlos Moreira de Castro; 3 August 1902 – 16 August 1999) was a Brazilian samba composer and performer. He was one of the founders of the Mangueira Samba School. Early life Cachaça was born and raised in Mangueira in Rio de Janeiro’s North Zone. His nickname derived from the sugarcane liquor cachaça, a drink he enjoyed as a young man. As a teenager, he played the tambourine with local street musicians performing early samba, an Afro-Brazilian style blending percussion and urban themes. Career In 1922, Cachaça met fellow composer Cartola. Together they later co-founded the street troupe Arengueiros, which evolved into the Mangueira Samba School in 1928. With Cartola, he composed more than 400 songs, including themes for Mangueira’s carnival parades such as “Pudesse Meu Ideal” and “Alvorada”. Although he received little financial reward and worked as a railway employee, his music helped establish the samba-enredo style, which remains central to Rio’s carnival. Later life and death Cachaça continued to be celebrated as one of Mangueira’s founding figures. Two years before his death, he appeared in a carnival parade seated on a float, honored for his contribution t

Carlos Lyra

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Carlos Eduardo Lyra Barbosa (11 May 1933 – 16 December 2023) was a Brazilian singer, and composer of numerous bossa nova and Música popular brasileira classics. He has also worked as a writer, with notable contributions to musical films such as Para Viver um Grande Amor and Intimidade. He and Antônio Carlos Jobim were the first two music composers, together with lyricists Vinicius de Moraes and Ronaldo Boscoli, to be recorded by João Gilberto on his first LP entitled Chega de Saudade (1959), which is referred to as the first generation of Bossa Nova. Career The first of Lyra’s songs to be recorded was “Menina” (1954), issued as a single by Sylvia Telles in 1955, with “Foi a noite” by Antônio Carlos Jobim on the B-side. The writers first met because of this single, when Jobim called Lyra “the other side of the record”. At that time, both were writing their own music and lyrics creating a colloquial and completely new style. They wrote about their own experiences and feelings. A completely different lyrical style from most songs written at that time. His first compositions (music and lyrics), from 1954 to 1956 included: “Quando chegares”; “Menina”; “Barquinho de Papel”; “Ciúme”; “Cri

Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Faria

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Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Faria (5 April 1873 – 9 September 1938) was a Brazilian composer, pianist, poet, singer and teacher who used the pseudonym Stella Bomilcar. Biography She was born in Rio de Janeiro, daughter of João Paulo Gomes de Mattos and Joana de Alencar Jaguaribe Gomes de Mattos. She first studied piano in Fortaleza, and she was drawn towards music, literature, and design. She moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1900, and in 1901 she enrolled in the Instituto Nacional de Música, where she studied voice, theory, and solfeggio with Frederico Nascimento; composition with Alberto Nepomuceno; and harmony, counterpoint, and fugue with Francisco Braga. She became a singing monitor at the Instituto Nacional de Música in 1905, an adjunct professor in 1907, and a theory and solfeggio professor in 1911. She went on to study voice in Paris in 1914 with Mme. Bauer, and later returned to Europe to study in Berlin in 1928. As a teacher, she would organize salons featuring her students at a home on Rua Fonte da Saudade, creating a well-known space for musical gatherings. Celeste Jaguaribe combined several aspects of her artistry into her career. In addition to teaching at the Instituto Nacio

César Camargo Mariano

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César Camargo Mariano (born 19 September 1943) is a Brazilian pianist, arranger, composer and music producer. Biography Mariano was born in São Paulo. In June 1957 the American trombone player Melba Liston invited thirteen-year-old Mariano to participate in her concert at a jazz club in Rio de Janeiro, and he appeared in a program on Rio’s Globo Radio called “The Boy Prodigy Who Plays Jazz”. Thar same year, Mariano met Johnny Alf, who went to live with Mariano’s family due to their great friendship. Together at the family home in São Paulo, Mariano became familiar with arranging, composing, and the arts of cinema and theatre, thanks to Johnny Alf’s encouragement. Through his own instincts, tenacity and raw talent, Mariano formed amateur instrumental and vocal groups, when TV Record in São Paulo invited him for a special called “Passport to Stardom” (Passaporte para o Estrelato). In the early 1960s, a teenaged Mariano became famous for his ability to swing and for his legendary left hand. His ensembles of that era, notably Sambalanço Trio and Som Três, are regarded today as high points in Brazilian jazz; so for his 1981 album Samambaia, one of his thirty-plus instrumental albums. Ma

César Guerra-Peixe

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César Guerra-Peixe (March 18, 1914 – November 26, 1993) was a Brazilian violinist, composer, and conductor. Guerra-Peixe was born in Petrópolis, son of Portuguese immigrants with Romani origins. Throughout his lifetime, Guerra-Peixe held numerous positions playing in orchestras and working as a composer and arranger in the production of radio broadcasts, recording, films, and cultural documentaries. His music can be heard in many Brazilian films, such as Terra é Sempre Terra, O Canto do Mar, Quero Essa Mulher Tanto Assim, Riacho de Sangue, Meu Nome é Lampião, and Soledade. Although he strongly embraced serialist techniques through his compositional studies with Koellreutter, Guerra-Peixe took a strong interest in northeastern Brazilian traditional music and culture and integrated elements of Brazilian nationalism to varying degrees in his compositions. While living in Recife, Guerra-Peixe conducted field work on traditional Brazilian music and culture, and he published numerous articles based on his research in the Revista Brasileira de Folclore. He is particularly well known for his lifelong dedication and contributions to the research and promotion of Brazilian culture. The Conce

Charles Gavin

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Charles de Souza Gavin (born 9 July 1960) is a Brazilian drummer and music producer, perhaps best known for his 25-year tenure with rock band Titãs. Before Titãs, he had brief stints at Ira! and RPM. Early life and first works At age 8, his friends invited him to participate on 7 September (Brazil’s Independence Day) festival. The problem was the absence of decent percussion instruments. So, the school decided to improvise these with kitchen utensils. But there was still an instrument remaining, which would be quite difficult for a not so skillful drummer to play. Gavin, who was already used to beat the table at school, was chosen for the job. The band, commanded by Gavin, won the originality prize. In 1975, at the year of 15, living in Jabaquara, Gavin joined ten neighbors, and during the weeks that preceded the Carnaval, they promoted noisy beats around the streets. However, his ears were focused on the discs of Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Once the drumming life was chosen, he built himself his first own drum kit, using pieces of his father’s Opala, his sofa, and two ash trays. In 1979, when he was 19, Gavin convinced his father to buy his first true d

Chiquinha Gonzaga

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Francisca Edwiges Neves Gonzaga, better known as Chiquinha Gonzaga (; October 17, 1847 – February 28, 1935) was a Brazilian composer, pianist and the first woman conductor in Brazil. Chiquinha Gonzaga was the first pianist of “choro” and author of the first carnival march, “Ó Abre Alas” (1899). Her plays and operettas, such as Forrobodó and Jurití, were a great success with the public because they used elements of Brazilian popular culture of the time. Biography Early life Chiquinha Gonzaga was born in Rio de Janeiro, from a pardo mother and a wealthy white father – after she was born her father became a marshal. Her godfather was Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias. For her mother, a mestizo and poor woman, the birth of Chiquinha was a very difficult, in part because of the risk that the father would not recognize the paternity of her daughter. Indeed, José Basileu, the military promising career, from a wealthy family, suffered from the pressure of his parents, who were against his marriage with Rosa. Despite these disagreements, he accepted the child as his daughter and married. Like all girls of a military family in the 19th century, Chiquinha Gonzaga was very well educat

Clarisse Leite

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Clarisse Leite Dias Baptista (January 11, 1917 – May 11, 2003) was a Brazilian composer, pianist and music educator and primarily composed for the piano. Leite developed her own style of teaching piano called Ginástica Anatômica (Anatomic Gym) and was a member of the International Academy of Music. Early life and education Clarisse Leite was born in São Paulo on January 11, 1917 into a musical family, her maternal grandfather Laurentino Mendes de Moraes composed songs for a band in Paraibuna and her aunt Benedita Borges de Moraes was a pianist. Her elder sister Zilda, also a pianist, taught Leite piano at a young age. The two sisters had an agreement that whenever Zilda went out, Clarisse would play the piano in her place so their mother would not notice Zilda had left. At the age of six, Leite earned a place at the prestigious São Paulo Drama and Music Conservatory. Between 1963 and 1977, Leite was the state supervisor of music in Bauru. While teaching, she developed her own technique to teach piano to students called Ginástica Anatômica (Anatomic Gym). She also founded the Clarisse Leite piano contests. Influenced by her role as a piano teacher, she wrote and dedicated pieces for

Cláudio Santoro

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Cláudio Franco de Sá Santoro (23 November 1919 – 27 March 1989) was an internationally renowned Brazilian composer, conductor and violinist. Biography Early life A native of Manaus, the capital of Amazonas, Santoro started to study violin and piano as a child. His efforts made the Government of Amazonas send him to study at the Conservatório Brasileiro de Música in Rio de Janeiro. Career At the age of 18, he was already teaching violin at the conservatory. He was a pupil of Hans-Joachim Koellreutter, a composer who influenced him. He also studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. He co-founded and played in the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra. His prolific output was mostly instrumental and includes fourteen symphonies, three piano concertos and seven string quartets. He was invited by the Government of the German Federal Republic for the Program “Resident Artist in West Berlin” (1966–67) and by the Brahms Foundation as Resident Artist of the Brahms House (Baden Baden). Claudio Santoro died in Brasília in March 1989 at the age of 69 while conducting the rehearsal of a concert scheduled to commemorate the 14 July bicentennial of the French Revolution. Awards He won a 1948 prize of The Lil

Cláudio Venturini

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Luís Cláudio Venturini (born 14 August 1958) is a Brazilian guitarist, vocalist and composer. With his elder brother Flávio Venturini, he began his career taking part in the album A Via Láctea of the friend Lô Borges in 1978. One year later he was co-founder of the band 14 Bis, formerly besides his brother Flávio and where he persists nowadays. In 1987, when Flávio left the group, Cláudio became the main vocalist of the band. He composed some of the greatest hits of the band like: Mesmo de Brincadeira (with Vermelho and Mariozinho Rocha), Xadrês Chinês (with Vermelho and Chacal), Sonhando o Futuro (with Lô Borges), song that was recorded again by Beto Guedes and Canções de Guerra (with Sérgio Vasconcellos e Chico Amaral). See also * Clube da Esquina References External links *

Cristovão Bastos

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Cristovão da Silva Bastos Filho (born December 3, 1946) is a Brazilian songwriter, pianist and arranger. He has performed and composed for artists including Maria Bethânia, Milton Nascimento, Gal Costa, Ivan Lins, Barbra Streisand, Dionne Warwick and Paulinho da Viola. Bastos has been nominated for a Latin Grammy and has won 6 Brazilian Music Awards. Work Bastos has been active as a songwriter, arranger and pianist since the 1970s. In 1996, he released his first solo album, “Avenida Brasil”. Bastos was the pianist and arranger for Dionne Warwick’s 1994 album “Aquarela do Brasil”, a collection of Brazilian jazz and pop standards. Barbra Streisand’s 1999 song “Let’s Start Right Now” is set to the music of “Raios de Luz”, written by Bastos and Abel Silva. In 2006, Bastos composed the soundtrack for the film “Zuzu Angel”, directed by Sérgio Rezende. Awards and honors Bastos’ album “Cristovão Bastos e Rogério Caetano” was nominated for the Latin Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Album at the 22nd Annual Latin Grammy Awards. Together with Marco Pereira, Bastos won the 1994 Brazilian Music Awards (also known as the Sharp Awards) for Best Instrumental Album for their album “Bons Encontros

Dalto (composer)

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Dalto Roberto Medeiros, stage name Dalto (born in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro (state), 22 June 1949) is a Brazilian composer and singer. Biography In the beginning of the 1970s, Dalto has actuated as vocalist of the Niterói’s rock band Os Lobos, recording the compact Fanny by the label Top Tape. After this beginning of career, he quit the group to study to be a doctor, until graduating. In 1974, he started his solo career recording a compact for Odeon. The success however only would appear in the 1980s, precisely in 1981, with the song Bem-te-vi, in partnership with Cláudio Rabelo but sung by Renato Terra, which sold 250 thousand copies. In the next year, he already composing and singing, had his biggest hit, Muito Estranho, released in compact and LP record by EMI-Odeon. Another big hit of the composer is the song “Anjo”, recorded in 1983 by the group Roupa Nova, composed in partnership with Cláudio Rabello and Renato Correa. Recently Dalto composed to the sound track of the soap opera Viver a Vida with the song “Faça um Pedido”. Discography * 1974 — Leila Ly/Flash back, Odeon (Compact) * 1982 — Muito estranho, EMI-Odeon (LP) * 1983 — Pessoa, Dalto, EMI-Music Brasil(LP) * 1985 — Kama

Dick Farney

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Farnésio Dutra e Silva (14 November 1921 – 4 August 1987), better known as Dick Farney, was a Brazilian jazz pianist, composer, and singer who was popular in Brazil from the late 1940s to the mid-1970s and 1980s. Biography He began playing piano as a child, as his father Eduardo Dutra taught him classical music and his mother taught him how to sing. In 1937, he debuted as a singer on the show Hora Juvenil of Radio Cruzeiro do Sul in Rio de Janeiro, performing the song “Deep Purple” composed by Peter DeRose. Farney was invited by César Ladeira to Radio Mayrink Veiga to host the program Dick Farney, the Voice and Piano. He then formed the group Os Swing Maniacos with his brother Cyll Farney on drums. The band accompanied Edu da Gaita for the recording of “Indian Song” by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. From 1941 to 1944, Farney sang with the orchestra of Carlos Machado at the Casino da Urca when gambling was still allowed in Brazil. In 1946, he was invited to the United States after meeting the arranger Bill Hitchcock and pianist Eddy Duchin at the Copacabana Palace Hotel. In November 1947, Farney had a Billboard chart hit with the song “I Wish I Didn’t Love You So”, which reached number 13

Dinorá de Carvalho

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Dinorá Gontijo de Carvalho (1 June 1895 – 28 February 1980) was a Brazilian pianist, conductor, music educator and composer. Life Carvalho was born in Uberaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and began her study of piano at the Conservatório Musical in São Paulo at age six with Maria Lacaz Machado and Carlino Crescenzo. She made her debut as a pianist at age seven playing Mozart and Mendelssohn, and later studied with Isidor Philipp in Paris on a Ministry of Culture scholarship. She continued her studies in Brazil with Lamberto Baldi, Martin Brawnvieser, Ernest Mehelich and Camargo Guarnieri. After completing her studies, Carvalho worked as a pianist, composer, conductor and music educator. She became the first woman member of the Brazilian Academy of Music and became the first woman Brazilian maestro, founding an all-woman orchestra, the Orquestra Feminina de São Paulo. In 1960, having composed about 400 works, Dinorá was invited by the Ministry of Culture of Brazil to go in a cultural mission around Europe, playing her compositions as well as other Brazilian composers. Her work Missa Profundis received first prize for Best Vocal Work of 1977 from the Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte

Dom Um Romão

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Dom Um Romão (3 August 1925 – 27 July 2005) was a Brazilian jazz drummer and percussionist. Noted for his expressive stylings with the fusion band Weather Report, Romão also recorded with artists such as Cannonball Adderley, Paul Simon, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Jorge Ben, Sergio Mendes and Brasil ‘66, and Tony Bennett. He was the percussionist Tom Jobim brought to the studio for the album Jobim recorded with Frank Sinatra in 1967 for Reprise Records, Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim. He died in Rio de Janeiro shortly after suffering a stroke. * 1990 Samba de Rua (Vogue Records) * 1993 Saudades (Waterlilly) * 1999 Rhythm Traveller (Natasha) * 2001 Lake of Perseverance (Irma) * 2002 Nu Jazz meets Brazil (Cuadra) As sideman With Cannonball Adderley * Cannonball’s Bossa Nova (Riverside, 1962) With Harry Belafonte * Turn the World Around (Columbia, 1977) With Jorge Ben * Samba Esquema Novo (Philips, 1963) With Blood, Sweat & Tears *Mirror Image (Columbia, 1974) With Luiz Bonfa and Maria Toledo * Braziliana (Philips, 1965) With Ron Carter * Yellow & Green (CTI, 1976) With João Donato * A Bad Donato (Blue Thumb, 1970) With Peter Giger and Family of Percussion * Mozambique Meets

Dona Onete

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Dona Onete (born June 18, 1939) is a Brazilian singer and composer. She has been referred to as the “Queen of Carimbó”. Career She was born Ionete da Silveira Gama in Cachoeira do Arari and grew up in Igarapé-Miri. By the time that she was fifteen, she was singing songs from traditional music genres such as sambas, quadrilles and boi bumba. She taught history and Amazonian studies in Igarapé-Mir and conducted research into rhythms, dances and traditions of the region. She helped establish music and dance groups which preserved traditional music and customs. From 1993 to 1996, she served as secretary of culture for the municipality. She developed her own hybrid genre of music carimbó chamegado. After she retired to , she continued to perform. Together with a local band, she has performed throughout Brazil as well as in the United Kingdom, France, Portugal, Germany and New York City. In 2017, she was named to the Brazilian Ordem do Mérito Cultural. In 2018, Onete appeared in the documentary film Amazônia Groove. Her album Rebujo was considered one of the 25 best Brazilian albums of the first half of 2019 by the São Paulo Association of Art Critics. References

Edino Krieger

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Edino Krieger (17 March 1928 – 6 December 2022) was a Brazilian avant-garde composer, conductor, record producer and musical critic. Life and career Born in Brusque, Santa Catarina, the son of the composer and band leader Aldo Krieger, he studied at the in Rio de Janeiro. During his career Krieger composed over 150 pieces, as well as songs (notably Vinicius de Moraes’ “Fuga e antifuga”), incidental music and film scores. Krieger died on 6 December 2022, at the age of 94. References Further reading * * External links *Edino Krieger at Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música *Edino Krieger at Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural * *

Edson Zampronha

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Edson Zampronha (born June 2, 1963) is a Brazilian composer dedicated to contemporary experimental music. His works include pieces for orchestra, symphonic band, electroacoustic music, chamber music, sound installations, interactive works and music for films. His music makes an extensive use of rhetoric strategies to create new forms of musical tensions and musical discourses. His research focus on musical signification and it takes semiotics, music theory and technology as backgrounds. Biography Edson Zampronha was born in Rio de Janeiro into a family of musicians. He started out his musical training at a young age at home. His first lessons included musical composition, history of music, theory, harmony, counterpoint and musical analysis, besides piano playing. His family moved from Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo in 1969. In 1978 he was introduced into electroacoustic music composition, and his first experiments were done in a four-channel Revox tape recorder. In 1983 he starts the course on Music Composition and Conducting at the São Paulo State University. In 1991 he concludes a Master Degree in Musical Composition at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and in 1992 he starts

Edu da Gaita

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Edu da Gaita (lit. Edu of the Harp), born Eduardo Nadruz (December 13, 1916 – August 23, 1982), was a Brazilian musician. At the end of the 1950s, Radamés Gnattali befriended Edu, composing a concert for harmonica and orchestra dedicated to him and, in 1960, taking him on tour in Europe and South America with his sextet in a government-funded program called III Caravana Oficial de Música Popular Brasileira. The tour was recorded and generated two albums: Radamés na Europa, com seu Sexteto e Edu – vol. 1 and Radamés na Europa, com seu Sexteto e Edu – vol. 2, all by Odeon Records. In 2022, in his behalf, the state of São Paulo passed a bill declaring August 23 as “Dia Nacional da Gaita e do Gaitista” (National Day of the Harp and the Harp Player) . Selected filmography * Berlin to the Samba Beat (1944) Discography Albums *Violino cigano / Canção da Índia (1939) Columbia 78 *Onde o céu azul é mais azul / Cantigas de roda (1941) Columbia 78 *Uma gaita em Sevilha / Velhas melodias (1941) Columbia 78 *Ritmo do Brasil / Fantasia espanhola (1944) Continental 78 *Dança ritual do fogo / Andaluzia (1949) Continental 78 *Poeta e camponês (I) / Poeta e camponês (II) (1949) Continental 78 *Torna

Eduardo Reck Miranda

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Eduardo Reck Miranda (born 1963) is a Brazilian composer of chamber and electroacoustic pieces but is most notable in the United Kingdom for his scientific research into computer music, particularly in the field of human-machine interfaces where brain waves will replace keyboards and voice commands to permit the disabled to express themselves musically. Biography Early life Miranda was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil. As one of the largest cities in Southern Brazil and a cultural, political and economical center, Porto Alegre had significant influence on Miranda’s music. In the mid-1990s, Miranda joined the Department of Music at the University of Glasgow, where he lectured music technology and electroacoustic music composition for a number of years. Then he moved to Paris, to take up a research position at Sony Computer Science Laboratory in the late 1990s. At Sony, Miranda conducted research aimed at gaining a better understanding of the fundamental cognitive mechanisms employed in sound-based communication systems. This research led Miranda to focus on the evolution of the human ability to speak and the role of our musical capacity in the development of spoken languages. While at S

Egberto Gismonti

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Egberto Amin Gismonti (born 5 December 1947) is a Brazilian composer, guitarist and pianist. He studied with Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979), after acceptance as a student by the composer Jean Barraqué, Gismonti is a self-taught guitarist. After returning to Brazil, he designed guitars with more than six strings, expanding the possibilities of the instrument. Approaching the fretboard as if it were a keyboard, Gismonti gives the impression that there is more than a single guitar player. Gismonti’s sojourn in the Xingu region of the Amazon basin made a lasting impression. This is documented musically in tunes such as “Yualapeti” and “Sapain” (Yualapeti shaman, Sapain) and in the recordings Dança das Cabeças (“Dance of the Heads”, 1977), Sol do Meio-Dia (“Noon Sun”, 1978), which he dedicated to the Xingu, and Duas Vozes (“Two Voices”, 1984). The musical career of Gismonti spans five decades. The major phases are distinguished by record company, the ensemble format, and the musical collaborators. The most important ensembles are his Brazilian group Academia de Danças, including Mauro Senise (saxophone and flutes), Zeca Assumpção (bass) and Nenê (Realcino Lima Filho, drums and percussion),

Eloy Fritsch

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Eloy Fernando Fritsch (born 1968) is an electronic musician, keyboard player and main composer of Brazilian progressive rock band Apocalypse. As a solo artist he creates cosmic new-age music. History In 1983 Fritsch formed progressive rock band Apocalypse. They are considered pivotal in the development of progressive rock in Southern Brazil. In 1992, he moved to Porto Alegre and began his solo project composing electronic music. His first official solo album was Dreams, recorded in 1994 and 1995. During 1997, he released his second solo album, Behind the Walls of Imagination, which showcases his skills with various electronic and acoustic keyboard instruments. In the mid-1990s, Fritsch secured a recording contract with French label Musea. His third album for them, Space Music, was released in 1998. The composer reveals his sci-fi style with Cyberspace. In this album Fritsch offers 1970s-inspired keyboard symphonic/electronic progressive instrumental music. Fritsch performs electronic music that evolves between Vangelis’ ambient and impressionist electronic, and the synthesized progressive rock of masters such as Rick Wakeman. Nevertheless, Fritsch has found his own style within mel

Emerico Lobo de Mesquita

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José Joaquim Emerico Lobo de Mesquita (12 October 1746 – April 1805) was a Brazilian composer, music teacher, conductor and organist. Life Emerico was born at Vila do Príncipe (now Serro), in Minas Gerais State, Brazil. His parents José Lobo de Mesquita and Joaquina Emerenciana gave him a liberal education. He received his first music lessons (organ and music theory) from Father Manuel da Costa Dantas, who was organist and choirmaster at the church Nossa Senhora da Conceição in Serro. Soon after 1776 he went to Arraial do Tijuco (now Diamantina) to become organist and conductor at the cathedral Santo Antônio of Diamantina. On 17 January 1789, he entered the religious order Ordem Terceira de Nossa Senhora do Carmo. He founded a music school in this city and was appointed teacher of the art of music. In 1798, he worked in Vila Rica (now Ouro Preto) for the city mayor, and was also organist and choirmaster at the church Nossa Senhora do Pilar. He had a quarrel with the mayor and left for Rio de Janeiro, where he became organist of the Ordem Terceira do Carmo until his death, in April 1805. Lobo de Mesquita was an important representative of the so-called Escola de Compositores da Capi

Ernani Aguiar

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Ernani Henrique Chaves Aguiar (born 30 August 1950) is a Brazilian composer, conductor, and musicologist. Life and career A scholarship winner to the Argentine Mozarteum, Aguiar studied under various composers and conductors in South America and later in Europe, including Sergiu Celibidache. As a musicologist, he has specialized in the revising, editing, and revival of works by composers of the 18th century Minas Gerais School. He has written a number of instrumental pieces, but his most famous works are his choral pieces, such as the fiery Salmo 150, composed in 1975 and published in 1993, which features rhythmic backgrounds with very rapid articulations. Salmo 150 has proved a very popular piece among choral conductors worldwide, particularly within the American Choral Directors Association. He is currently a professor of music at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, a fellow of the Villa-Lobos Institute, and a member of the Academia Brasileira de Música. Choral works * Cantilena, para coro “a capella” * Danças, para barítono e cordas, 1993 * Falai de Deus, para coro “a capella” * Missa Brevis * Missa Brevis II in honorem S. Francisci Assisiensis, para coro “a capella” * Mis

Ernani Braga

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Ernani Braga (born Hernani da Costa Braga; January 10, 1888 – September 17, 1948) He composed works for voice, choir, orchestra and piano. He also taught in Campinas, Araraquara and Jaboticabal. Among his pupils can be listed Adolpho Tabacow and Camargo Guarnieri. and Erik Satie’s parody on Frédéric Chopin’s funeral march (No.2 of Embryons desséchés). This collection is based on material from a region with sizeable population of African people. Their influence produces intricate rhythmic patterns and leads to the use of African dialects. The speech rhythm becomes an important compositional device in these pieces. of which the last (Velha gaita) was harmonized only for one voice and piano, while each of the other ten songs have two versions: for 2 female voices and piano (however in most of the songs the second voice is ad libitum) or for female chorus a cappella (usually 3- or 4-part, though the Chimarrita is 5-part). The lack of choral arrangement for the last song was explained by Braga merely through the lack of time, but there is an old LP recording of such arrangement, what makes one suggest that the composer worked it out at some moment later. References Further reading * Gis

Esther Scliar

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Esther Scliar (28 September 1926 – 18 March 1978) was a Brazilian pianist and composer. Biography Esther Scliar was born in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil to Isaac and Rosa Scliar. Scliar worked as a pianist and taught harmony, music theory, analysis, and composition at the Instituto Villa-Lobos and Seminários de Música Pró-Arte. In 1952 she studied choral conducting with Nilda Müller in Montevideo and founded and was the first conductor of the Choir of the Musical Youth Association of Porto Alegre. In 1966 she wrote the music for the movie The Loss of Mario Fiorani and received an award for “Best Song” at the Brazilian Film Week II. In 1952 she found she had contracted tuberculosis and in 1968 had a stroke, after which she left her position at Villa-Lobos Institute. Her father died in 1975, and she died by suicide at age 51 in 1978. Works Scliar’s compositions were often inspired by folk music. She composed about ninety works. Selected compositions include: *1950 Ao sair da Lua for chorus *1952 A pedrinha vai for chorus *1953 Vira a Moenda for chorus *1953 Dorme-Dorme for chorus *1953 Beira Mar *1953 Maracatu Elefante (after a melody by Capiba) *1953 Papagaio louro (text:

Eumir Deodato

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Eumir Deodato de Almeida (; born 22 June 1942) is a Brazilian pianist, composer, arranger and record producer, primarily in jazz but who has been known for his eclectic melding of genres, such as pop, rock, disco, rhythm and blues, classical, Latin and bossa nova. Deodato has arranged and produced more than 500 records for acts such as Frank Sinatra, Roberta Flack, Björk and Christophe. He also produced Kool & the Gang’s hits “Celebration”, “Ladies’ Night” and “Too Hot”. Deodato was nominated for three Grammy Awards and won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance in 1974 for “Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001).” The song peaked at number 2 on the weekly Billboard Hot 100 in March 1973. It reached number 3 in Canada and number 7 on the British charts. Career Recording career Deodato often plays the Fender Rhodes electric piano. He became successful as a keyboard player in the 1970s. Since then, he has produced and arranged music on more than 500 albums for artists such as Kool & the Gang, Con Funk Shun, Björk, Christophe, Ithamara Koorax and k.d. lang. Guitarist John Tropea and flautist Hubert Laws appeared on his early albums. Prelude, his first album in the U.S., was re

Eunice Katunda

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Eunice Katunda (also spelled Catunda) (née do Monte Lima) was a Brazilian pianist, composer, music educator, lecturer, and poet. Katunda was born in Rio de Janeiro on March 14, 1915, and died at 76 years old on August 3, 1990 in São José dos Campos. Education and Career Showing signs of being a child prodigy, Katunda began playing the piano at just two years old. She learned piano with Mima Oswald from age of 5 to 8, then with Branca Bilhar from age 9 to 12, and then with Oscar Guanabarino from age 13 to 21. In around 1934, she moved to São Paulo where she studied piano with Marieta Lion. In 1946 she returned to Rio de Janeiro and began her studies with Hans-Joachim Koellreutter. In her compositional studies, she was especially interested in avant-garde and modern composers and she expanded her knowledge of counterpoint, musical aesthetics, orchestration, and arrangement. Katunda continued to compose until 1983, with her most prolific period being the 1950s and 1960s. She could speak and write in three languages, English, French, and Italian. Personal life Katunda’s parents were Rubens do Monte Lima from Rio Grande do Sul and Maria Grauben Bomilcar, a native painter from Ceará. Her

Fábio Caramuru

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Fábio Caramuru (São Paulo Brazil, September 14, 1956) is a Brazilian pianist, composer and musical producer. Biography Fábio Caramuru develops two main projects: EcoMúsica Project and Tom Jobim for Piano. The EcoMusica Project has been developed by Caramuru since 2013. It is a pioneering initiative, dedicated to the Brazilian nature, that mixes his music and sounds of nature in an inventive way, with the important mission of alerting for the preservation of the environment. Through this project Caramuru already released the albums EcoMusica Dialogues between a piano and the Brazilian fauna (2015) and EcoMusica Aves (Birds of Japan) (2018), many music videos such as Cicada, Tico-tico, Bem-te-vi, Harpy Eagle, Macaws, Hidorigamo and Quero-quero (all available on Caramuru’s YouTube Channel), as well as several EcoMusica Concerts in Brazil, Japan, and Canada. In September 2020, the pianist released the video Amazonia EcoMusica Uirapuru, a legend of the forest. The video was directed by Otavio Dias, Cecilia Lucchesi was in charge of the scene research and the script was written by Caramuru himself. It was produced entirely during the social distancing period, and this new work portraits

Fabio Costa (composer, conductor)

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Fabio Costa (Fábio Ciglioni Martins Costa, 4 December 1971) is a Brazilian-born composer, conductor and pianist. He is also active as a composer of microtonal music. Early life and musical education Fabio Costa was born in São Paulo, Brazil, to an engineer father and a psychologist mother, with family roots in Portugal and Italy (Costa is a dual Brazilian/Italian citizen). He was partly raised in Germany (1982–1984). His grandfather Waldemar Ciglioni was a popular radiophonic actor in his time, and great-grandfather Armando Ciglioni, a neapolitan-song composer/impresario and violinist at the São Paulo Opera House. Costa started out musically self-taught at age 9 (piano and composition) deciding by age 14 to become a professional musician; he learned the oboe at age 16 and was active for the next 8 years as an orchestral oboist, chamber musician and soloist. He earned a bachelor’s degree in oboe performance in 1995 and after a year of oboe studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Budapest (1995–1996),he decided to pursue a career as a conductor. Between 1996 and 1999 Costa studied at the Vienna Music Academy (opera and orchestral conducting in the class Uros Lajovic) with a scholarship

Fernando Brant

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Fernando Rocha Brant (October 9, 1946 – June 12, 2015) was a Brazilian poet, lyricist and journalist, born in Caldas, Minas Gerais. Brant’s interest in music and literature began to increase while he studied law at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. At the beginning of the 1960s, Brant made friends with Milton Nascimento who soon became his creative partner and encouraged him to write his first lyrics, “Travessia”. The song won the second place in the II Festival International da Canção (International Song Festival) in Rio de Janeiro in 1967. In the same year, “Travessia” was included in Nascimento’s first album and became one of the better known songs in his repertoire. In 1969 Brant got a job as a journalist in O Cruzeiro magazine affiliate in Belo Horizonte. That same year, in Belo Horizonte, Brant and friends began articulating a project that would become Clube da Esquina, an influential Brazilian music artists collective. Among Milton-Brant most famous compositions are “Travessia”, “Maria Maria”, “Canção da América”, “Encontros e Despedidas”, “Ponta de Areia”, and “Nos Bailes da Vida”. Brant composed more than 300 songs with multiple partners. He also wrote scripts and lyri

Francisco Braga

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Antônio Francisco Braga (15 April 1868 – 14 March 1945) was a Brazilian music composer. Braga was born in Rio de Janeiro, and studied with Luiz António de Moura and Carlos de Mesquita. In 1886, he founded the Sociedade de Concertos Populares. In 1906, his composition Hino à Bandeira was adopted as the Brazilian national flag anthem. Starting in 1890 Antônio Francisco Braga studied at the Conservatoire in Paris with Jules Massenet. After that he spent time both in Germany and in Italy and then returned to Brazil in 1900. Upon his return to Brazil, Antônio Francisco Braga taught at the Instituto Nacional de Música and was the conductor of the Sociedade de Concertos Sinfonicos between 1908 and 1933. His pupils included Brazilian composers Cacilda Borges Barbosa and Hilda Pires dos Reis. Antônio Francisco Braga composed three operas and produced orchestral pieces, chamber music, piano pieces and many songs. Works *Missa de S. Francisco Xavier (s.d.) *Missa de S. Sebastião (s.d.) *Te Deum (s.d.) *Stabat Mater (s.d.) *Trezena de S. Francisco de Paula (s.d.) *A Paz, poem with chorus (s.d.) *Oração pela Pátria, poem with chorus (s.d.) *Trio, para piano, violin e cello (s.d.) * Dois Quintet

Francisco Manuel da Silva

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Francisco Manuel da Silva (21 February 1795 – 18 December 1865) was a Brazilian songwriter and music professor, notable for composing the Brazilian National Anthem. Biography Silva was born on 21 February in Rio de Janeiro and died on 18 December 1865, at the age of 70, in the same city. He had great prominence in the musical life of Rio de Janeiro in the period between the death of José Maurício Nunes Garcia and Antônio Carlos Gomes. He was a singer of Capela Real since 1809, and later a cello player. He was one of the founders of (National Imperial Music and Opera Academy), of , which became (Nacional Music Institute) and is called (Rio de Janeiro University Music School). He was taught by José Maurício Nunes Garcia and, most probably, by Sigismund Neukomm. He was directly responsible for Capela Imperial’s reinstatement and being turned to its old beauty. He left a handful of works, spread around Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and São Paulo archives, covering gospel music, modinhas and lundus. He composed the Brazilian National Anthem, first as a patriotic march, since emperor Pedro I’s abdication, later being officialized as anthem by the Brazilian Republic Revolution (1889). He a

Francisco Mignone

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Francisco Paulo Mignone (September 3, 1897, São Paulo – February 19, 1986, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian composer, pianist and conductor. He was one of the most significant figures in Brazilian classical music, and one of the most significant Brazilian composers after Heitor Villa-Lobos. In 1968 he was chosen as Brazilian composer of the year. Life and career A graduate of the São Paulo Conservatory and then of the Milan Conservatory, Mignone returned to São Paulo in 1929 to teach harmony, and in 1933 took a post in Rio de Janeiro at the Escola Nacional de Música. Mignone was a versatile composer, dividing his output nearly evenly between solo songs, piano pieces, chamber instrumental works, orchestral works, and choral works. In addition, he wrote five operas and eight ballets. Son of the Italian immigrant flutist Alferio Mignone, Francisco was already making his mark upon the musical world of Brazil by the time he was 10 years old, gaining notoriety around his district playing in the choro style. A pianist and orchestra leader at 13, he had gained some fame composing and playing under the pseudonym of Chico Bororó, keeping these activities separate from his formal music trainin

Gilberto Mendes

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Gilberto Mendes (13 October 1922 – 1 January 2016) was a 20th-century Brazilian avant-garde composer, and one of the pioneering fathers of the company New Consonant Music. Biography Gilberto Mendes was born in Santos, Brazil, in 1922. He studied piano with Antonieta Rudge and harmony with Sabino de Benedictis. The influence of Villa-Lobos is evident in his early works, in some way preceding the advent of bossa nova in his early songs. His contact with the poets of the Noigandres group gave him the ideological inspiration to feed his talent. Mendes’s compositions include cantatas, motets, orchestral music, incidental music, solo and chamber pieces, and some avant-garde works. Most of them are published by Alain Van Kerckhoven Editeur. In 1965, he founded the Santos New Music Festival. In the 1970s and 1980s, he taught at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and the University of Texas, then was a professor of music at the University of São Paulo (USP). Discography * Francisco Mignone, Almeida Prado, Gilberto Mendes - I Bienal De Música Contemporânea Brasileira - Disco 3 (LP) Not On Label SCM1003 1975 * Fernando Cerqueira (2), Gilberto Mendes, Lindemberque R. Cardoso, Radamés Gnatta

Gui Mallon

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Guilherme A.B. Mallon (Gui Mallon) is a Brazilian composer, guitarist and writer. Mallon was born in Rio de Janeiro, and studied music theory and harmony at the CBM-Brazilian Conservatory of Music in Rio de Janeiro. He also studied composition and conducting with Alceu Bochino and Guerra Peixe, at the Villa-Lobos School of Music in Rio de Janeiro. In 1983 he moved to the United States, where he lived in New York from 1983 to 1989. In 1990 he moved to Europe, settling down in Madrid, Spain and then finally in Sweden (1992). In Europe he formed different groups to perform his compositions and arrangements in various styles: contemporary, world, folk music, jazz and classical. Attempting to expand the chamber music and classical guitar repertoires, Gui Mallon has written extensively for a trio formed by his guitar, a bass instrument (usually violoncello or bass) and a solo instrument (flute, violin, sax, oboe, etc.). His Gui Mallon Ensemble, a band formed of a string quintet, 3 percussionists, sax, flute and guitar, performed two concerts at Montreux Jazz Festival. These concerts were recorded live and released in the US and Canada by the American record company Adventure Music (Live

Guido Santórsola

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Guido Antonio Santórsola di Bari Bruno (18 November 1904 in Canosa di Puglia, Italy – 24 September 1994 in Montevideo, Uruguay) was a Brazilian-Uruguayan composer, violinist, violist, viola d’amore player, and conductor of Ita birth. Life and music Santórsola was born in Italy and his family settled in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1909. After receiving initial musical instruction from his father, Enrico, he soon entered the Conservatório Dramático e Musical de São Paulo studying violin with Zaccaria Autuori, and counterpoint, harmony and composition with Agostino Cantù and Lamberto Baldi. He went to Europe to study violin with Gaetano Fusella (1876–1973) in Naples and Alfred Mistowski (1872–1964) at Trinity College, London. Returning to Brazil in 1925, he founded the Brazilian Musical Institute, and was violist of the Paulista Quartet and the Rio de Janeiro Teatro Municipal Orchestra. Subsequently, he was professor of violin, viola and harmony at the Conservatório Dramático e Musical de São Paulo before settling in Montevideo in 1931. Italian maestro Lamberto Baldi, director of the Orquesta Sinfónica del SODRE, invited Santórsola to be first violist of his orchestra and also perform with

Hans-Joachim Koellreutter

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Hans-Joachim Koellreutter (2 September 1915 – 13 September 2005) was a Brazilian composer, teacher and musicologist. Koellreutter was born in Freiburg, Germany and lived in Brazil from 1937 onward, where he became one of the country’s most influential musicians. In Brazil Koellreuter taught many prominent composers, including Gilberto Mendes, Cláudio Santoro, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Denis Mandarino, Jayme Amatnecks, among others. He brought the theory of atonal music to Brazil, creating the group “Musica Viva” and inflating the debate between the “Nationalists” and “Serialists”. While the former group believed in the use of folklore material for the development of their compositions, the latter believed that the more rational approach of the European school was the path to truly contemporary works. This debate played a central role in the esthetic developments of Brazilian classical music throughout the 20th century. Death Koellreutter died in São Paulo, Brazil, 11 days after his 90th birthday. References

Heitor Pereira

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Heitor Teixeira Pereira () (born 29 November 1960), or Heitor TP, is a Brazilian composer. In his career, Pereira has recorded with the band Simply Red and several famous musicians, such as Elton John, Rod Stewart, k.d. lang, Milton Nascimento, and Jack Johnson; and currently works as a film score composer, as well as a musician at Hans Zimmer’s studio, he is best known for being the composer of the Despicable Me franchise. Although primarily a guitarist, he also provided backing vocals live for the Simply Red song “Thrill Me”. He also collaborates with film directors Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin, Kyle Balda, Raja Gosnell, and Cal Brunker. In 1994, he released a solo album in the United Kingdom called Heitor TP, which featured guest appearance from Mick Hucknall on the track “Manchester”. Heitor left Simply Red to concentrate on his solo career. He played guitar and composed additional music for soundtracks like Gladiator, Mission: Impossible 2, The Road to El Dorado, Pearl Harbor, I Am Sam, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Madagascar, The Simpsons Movie, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Rango, and Cowboys & Aliens. In 2003, Pereira contributed the song “Remember Me” for the soundtrack

Heitor Villa-Lobos

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Villa-Lobos was born in Rio de Janeiro. His father, Raúl, was a civil servant, an educated man of Spanish extraction, a librarian, and an amateur astronomer and musician. In Villa-Lobos’s early childhood, Brazil underwent a period of social revolution and modernisation, abolishing slavery in 1888 and overthrowing the Empire of Brazil in 1889. The changes in Brazil were reflected in its musical life: previously European music had been the dominant influence, and the courses at the Conservatório de Música were grounded in traditional counterpoint and harmony. Villa-Lobos underwent very little of this formal training. After a few abortive harmony lessons, he learnt music by illicit observation from the top of the stairs of the regular musical evenings at his house arranged by his father. He learned to play cello, clarinet, and classical guitar. When his father died suddenly in 1899 he earned a living for his family by playing in cinema and theatre orchestras in Rio. Around 1905 Villa-Lobos started explorations of Brazil’s “dark interior”, absorbing the native Brazilian musical culture. Serious doubt has been cast on some of Villa-Lobos’s tales of the decade or so he spent on these expeditions, and about his capture and near escape from cannibals, with some believing them to be fabrications or wildly embellished romanticism. After this period, he gave up any idea of conventional training and instead absorbed the musical influences of Brazil’s indigenous cultures, themselves based on Portuguese and African, as well as American Indian elements. His earliest compositions were the result of improvisations on the classical guitar from this period. Villa-Lobos played with many local Brazilian street-music bands; he was also influenced by the cinema and Ernesto Nazareth’s improvised tangos and polkas. For a time Villa-Lobos became a cellist in a Rio opera company, and his early compositions include attempts at Grand Opera. Encouraged by Arthur Napoleão, a pianist and music publisher, he decided to compose seriously.

Helena Meirelles

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Helena Meirelles (August 13, 1924 – September 28, 2005) was a Brazilian guitar player, singer, and composer recognized around the world for her talent as a player of the viola caipira. She is one of the most important composers of the folk musical style of the region of Mato Grosso do Sul. Considered to be the Brazilian version of Robert Johnson, she was elected, in 1994 by Guitar Player magazine as one of the top 100 guitar players in the world. Biography Born in Bataguassu, at the time the district of Nova Andradina, Helena Pereira Meirelles grew up surrounded by entourages and guitar players. She was fascinated by violas caipiras, and her family would not allow her to learn how to play them. She ended up teaching herself in secret, and she faced strong prejudice because the viola was not appropriate for a woman to play. Little by little she was known among the cowboys of the region. She married at 17 years old at the imposition of her parents, abandoning her husband shortly after to join a Paraguayan who played violin and guitar. They also separated, and she resolved to play viola at bars and parties. In order to do so, she left her children from the two marriages with adoptive

Henrique Luís Levy

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Henrique Luís Levy (1829–1896), alternatively spelled Henrique Louis Levy, was a French clarinetist, composer and businessman. He immigrated to Brazil in 1848 and founded , a leading music store in São Paulo. Biography Levy was born on 10 December 1829 in Dehlingen, France. He fled to Switzerland in 1848 to escape anti-Semitic riots before immigrating to Brazil later the same year. Levy died on 14 August 1896 in São Paulo. Personal life Levy was married to Anne Marie Teodoreth of Switzerland. The couple had three children, including Alexandre Levy (1864–1892) and Luís Levy (1861–1935), who were also musicians. References External links * * Casa Levy Pianos website

Henrique Oswald

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Henrique José Pedro Maria Carlos Luis Oswald (April 14, 1852 – June 9, 1931) was a Brazilian composer and pianist. Biography Oswald was born in Rio de Janeiro. His father was a Swiss-German immigrant and his mother from Italy. The family name was changed from “Oschwald” due to concerns of discrimination. In 1854 the Oswald family moved to São Paulo. His mother taught music privately to aristocrats and by age twelve he had his first recital. In São Paulo, he also studied with Gabriel Guiraudon. His “farewell recital” occurred at age 16, after which he went to study in Europe , spending several years in Florence. In 1902 he won a piano composition competition sponsored by Le Figaro with a piece Il neige!.. (“It’s snowing!”). He then left his family in Europe (they moved to Brazil much later) and from 1903 to 1906 directed the Instituto Nacional de Música in Rio de Janeiro. He also served as Brazilian consul in both The Hague and Genoa. He died in 1931, just several days after his birthday festivities. Family Oswald came from a family of musicians, with both of his parents being musicians, as well as his daughter, Mima Oswald. Works Oswald’s best-known compositions today are numerous

Henry Jolles

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Henry Jolles (born Heinz-Frederic Jolles; 28 November 1902 – 16 July 1965) was a German pianist and composer. Uprooted from his native Germany by the rise of Nazism, he spent his last quarter-century in Brazil. Life Jolles was born in Berlin to Dr Oscar Jolles and his wife, Gertrude (née Sternberg). His mother was Jewish but it is unclear if his father was, as well. and near the end of World War I the Kingdom of Württemberg would honor him with the Wilhelmkreuz, a recently created civilian decoration for merit in the war effort, for his management of that company’s metals business. After studying piano with Artur Schnabel and Edwin Fischer and composition with Paul Juon and, privately, with Kurt Weill, Jolles began to develop a successful performing career in the 1920s. His academic career also flourished, bringing appointment as professor at the Cologne Music Academy in 1928, at which point he moved from Berlin-Charlottenburg to Cologne. The ascendency of the Nazis brought an abrupt halt to this progress and several years of disruptions. In 1933, the regime directed Jolles’s dismissal from his Academy position, and, by 1934, Jolles had moved to Paris to escape persecution. There,

Hilda Pires dos Reis

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Hilda Pires dos Reis (10 October 1919 - 2001 ) was a Brazilian composer, conductor, educator and pianist. Pires dos Reis was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Narciza Aires dos Reis Pires and Antonio Joaquim Pires. Guilherme Fontainha, Arnaud Gouveia, Francisco Mignone, and Paulo Silva. She earned a doctorate in conducting and piano from the School of Music of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (EMUFRJ) and later became a professor and head of the composition department there. She also taught piano at the Brazilian Conservatory of Music in Rio de Janeiro. Her students included the Brazilian composer and violinist Guilherme Carneiro da Cunha Bauer. *Sonata No. 2 for cello and piano *String Quartet No. 1 *Valsa Seresta for bassoon and piano Orchestral works *Bailado dos Gigantes da Botas *“Eu Te Quis Tanto” *“Jongo” *“Legenda” *“Tristezas de Amor” *“Via-láctea” References

Igor Lintz Maués

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Igor Lintz Maués; also spelled Igor Lintz-Maues; is a composer and sound artist born December 8, 1955, in São Paulo, Brazil, and since the end of the 1980s living in Vienna, Austria. Biography He studied composition, Electroacoustic and Computer Music in São Paulo (USP), The Hague (Royal Conservatory), Utrecht (Institute of Sonology) and Vienna (University of Music and Performing Arts) with Willy Correa de Oliveira, Gilberto Mendes, Louis Andriessen, Gottfried Michael Koenig and Wilhelm Zobl. His master’s thesis, “Música Eletroacústica no Brasil (1956-1981)”, is a reference work about the pioneering years of the Brazilian electroacoustic music. External links *Igor Lintz Maués on the website of the UNESCO. *Igor Lintz Maués on the website of the Kunstradio-Austrian Broadcasting. *Igor Lintz Maués on the data bank of The International Documentation of Electroacoustic Music.

Ilza Nogueira

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Ilza Nogueira (born December 25, 1948) is a Brazilian composer, music educator and musicologist with specialty in the area of music analysis. Biography Ilza Nogueira was born in Salvador, Bahia. She studied composition under Ernst Widmer at the School of Music and Performing Arts of the Federal University of Bahia. After graduation in 1972, she won a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and continued her studies in composition at the Academy of Music in Cologne (1974–1977) with Mauricio Kagel. She also obtained Master of Arts (1983) and Doctor of Philosophy (1985) degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo (USA), where she studied under Lejaren Hiller and Morton Feldman. After completing her undergraduate studies, she took a position teaching music at the Federal University of Paraíba where she retired from the faculty in 1998. The majority of her compositions are in chamber music with a predilection for mixed groupings with voice. Her works have been included in all recognized venues of contemporary music in Brazil, such as the Biennial of Contemporary Brazilian Music, Encounters of Latin American Composers and Performers, International Encoun

Ivan Vilela

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Ivan Vilela (born August 28, 1962 in Itajubá, Minas Gerais) is a Brazilian composer, arranger, researcher, teacher and viola caipira player. Ivan Vilela is currently a professor at the ECA - School of Communication and Arts of the University of São Paulo. He is the director of the Orquestra Filarmônica de Violas, a Brazilian orchestra composed by Brazilian violas. Ivan Vilela is one of the main ten-string guitarists (viola) nowadays. With a special style and very developed technique, he has more than 15 albums recorded, solo or with different groups, and was nominated for and awarded several prestigious prizes in Brazil. Biography Ivan Vilela is the youngest of a family of eleven children. When he was 11 years old, Vilela received a guitar from his father. His first guitar teacher was Amaury Vieira, in 1973. He began his artistic career at age 18 playing with the “Pedra” Group and then the “Água doce” Group, who did research on the music roots from the state of Minas Gerais. Vilela studied History prior to studying Music Composition at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), where he earned a BA and an MA in Arts. In 1989, he moved to Campinas. In 1995, he started playing

Jaques Morelenbaum

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Jaques Morelenbaum (() born 18 May 1954) is a Brazilian instrumentalist, arranger, conductor, composer and music producer. Morelenbaum was born in Rio de Janeiro, the son of conductor Henrique Morelenbaum and piano teacher Sarah Morelenbaum. His siblings are Lucia Morelenbaum, clarinetist in the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra, and Eduardo Morelenbaum, conductor, arranger and instrumentalist. He is married to singer Paula Morelenbaum. He started his musical career as part of the group A Barca do Sol, and participated in the Nova Banda that performed live with Antonio Carlos Jobim and in recordings that led to a Grammy win for the CD Antonio Brasileiro. As a cellist, he studied music in Brazil and later attended the New England Conservatory of Music. In 1995, with Paula Morelenbaum, Paulo Jobim and Daniel Jobim he created the Quarteto Jobim Morelenbaum. The group has toured Europe several times, including an appearance at the Expo'98 held in Lisbon. They have also toured the United States and Brazil, and have recorded a CD (Quarteto Jobim Morelenbaum). Nordeste Já (Northeast Now) Morelenbaum sang in the choir of the Brazilian equivalent of We Are the World, the hit American song that r

Jards Macalé

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Jards Anet da Silva (March 3, 1943 – November 17, 2025), known as Jards Macalé, was a Brazilian composer, singer and actor, known for his influential role in Brazil’s tropicália movement in the 1960s. Life and career Macalé was born in Rio de Janeiro, in the neighborhood of Tijuca, near Morro da Formiga, surrounded by music: on the hills, the drums; in the neighborhood, Vicente Celestino and Gilda de Abreu. At home, foxes, waltzes and folk songs played on the piano by his mother, Dona Ligia (who also sang), and the accordion by his father. The family choir had his younger brother, Roberto, and Jards. On the radio, Orlando Silva, , Emilinha Borba. In 1969, Macalé participated in the 4th International Song Festival presenting the song “Gotham City”. Macalé participated as an actor and composer of the soundtrack of the films The Amulet of Ogum and Tent of Miracles, by Nelson Pereira dos Santos. In 1976, Macalé became partner of Moreira da Silva on some sambas. In 2013 he participated in Exile Songs event, which claimed to be an anarchist, and Tenda dos Milagres. In 2019, his album Besta Fera was nominated for the Latin Grammy Award for Best MPB Album and considered one of the 25 best

Jayme Amatnecks

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Jayme Amatnecks (born 22 December 1966, in Ponta Grossa) is a Brazilian composer and conductor. He taught at Potiguar University from 2005 to 2011 and was twice elected to Ponta Grossa’s Municipal Council of Culture. Amatnecks studied under Gabriel de Paula Machado, Lucia Passos, Hans-Gerhard Rottmann, and Hans-Joachim Koellreutter. He performed with the State University of Ponta Grossa Choir, the Unisinos Choir, and the Theatro Guaíra Choir. In 1999, he organised the Vox Pop Choir and the Ministry of Culture’s Camerata Ars Música, promoting Brazilian musical repertoire. From 2005 to 2011, he taught at Potiguar University, directing multiple choirs including the CEIC (Centro Educacional Imaculada Conceição) Choir, St. Cecilia Women’s Choir, and the Federal Court of Rio Grande do Norte Choir. He served two terms on Ponta Grossa’s Municipal Council of Culture and initiated a public school choral program that formed 83 choirs throughout the city. He led an Osvaldo Lacerda workshop during the 2014 Chorus Inside Festival in Chieti, Italy. In 2015, he conducted Duerme Negrito with Camerata Ars Música and Emiglio Solé; this performance was later included in the short film Paseo de los Mel

Jean Goldenbaum

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Jean Goldenbaum ( in São Paulo, Brazil) is a German composer and musicologist. He is a researcher at the European Centre for Jewish Music of the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. Life Jean Mordechai Arendt Goldenbaum was born in a Jewish family in São Paulo and grew up there. In 2005 he immigrated to Germany and in 2013 got his PhD in musicology at the University of Augsburg. Goldenbaum was the composer in residence of the Wasa Sinfonieta Music Festival in Finland in 2011 and 2013, in which his two double concerti Ode to Friendship (for flute, guitar and orchestra) and The Universes shall conspire to Love (for flute, percussion and orchestra) were premiered. In 2011 some of his chamber music pieces were performed at the event “Neue Musik International” in Salzburg. Sponsored by the Ministry of Culture of Brazil his music was presented at the 2012 event Neue Klänge aus Brasilien – im Portrait: Jean Goldenbaum, also in Salzburg. After its premiere in Brazil, it took place in this occasion the European premiere of his concerto May all Dictators fall (for guitar and guitar quartet), years later recorded in Hanover. In 2016 it took place in Berlin the concert New tones for t

João Guilherme Ripper

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João Guilherme Ripper (born 1959 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian composer and conductor. João Guilherme Ripper is a composer, conductor, cultural manager and professor at the School of Music of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He studied with Henrique Morelenbaum and Ronaldo Miranda. In 1997, Ripper obtained his D.M.A. in Composition at The Catholic University of America, in Washington D.C., under the guidance of German composer Helmut Braunlich and Argentine musicologist Emma Garmendia. He pursued further studies in Orchestral Conducting with Maestro Guillermo Scarabino in Argentina, and attended the class of “Économie et Financement de la Culture” at the Université Paris-Dauphine, in France. Ripper served as Director of the School of Music of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro between 1999 and 2003. In 2004, he accepted the invitation of the Government of the State of Rio de Janeiro to direct Sala Cecília Meireles, a leading chamber music hall, where he remained for 11 years and undertook a comprehensive renovation. In 2015, he was appointed President of the Municipal Theater Foundation of Rio de Janeiro, the city’s opera house, a position he held until 2017. Rip

João MacDowell

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João MacDowell (born 1965) is a Brazilian composer known for fusing contemporary and popular styles with classical music. His work includes opera, symphonic, chamber music, and early albums of Brazilian pop. On the occasion of the concert premiere of his fifth opera The Seventh Seal, Swedish journalist Johanna Paulsson of noted the composer as “a new thinker in the genre” . The band Tonton Macoute left a mark on a generation of artists in the capital of Brazil and further. They had a track record of independent radio hits. The songs “Electric Light” and "" became instant radio hits, starting at Fluminense FM, and then at Rádio Cidade and Transamerica FM. This radio exposure led to a consistent following on their performances. They also made hits on radio stations across the country, many of these stations, such as Rádio Cidade and Transamérica, would normally refuse to play independent bands, which made their achievement quite a unique feat for the time. João Mac Dowell went on to work as a record producer and composer, working with such as Claudia Otero, Fabio Lobo, Little Quail and The Md Birds, Funk Fuckers and Rubao Sabino. He wrote soundtracks for films by Mauro Giuntinni, Kat

Jocy de Oliveira

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Jocy de Oliveira (formerly de Carvalho; born 11 April 1936) is a Brazilian pianist, multimedia artist and composer. Biography Jocy de Oliveira was born in Curitiba and grew up in São Paulo, Brazil. She studied in São Paulo with Joseph Kliass, in Paris with Marguerite Long, and in St. Louis with Robert Wykes. She received a Master of Arts from Washington University in St. Louis. De Oliveira became a concert pianist as a child, playing internationally with artists including Stravinsky and John Cage. She married conductor Eleazar de Carvalho but later divorced, and lived in St. Louis, New York City and Rio de Janeiro. She is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Music, and is the author of four books. Honors and awards *Rockefeller Foundation *New York Council on the Arts *Meet the Composer *Foundation of Art and Culture Vitae (Brazil) Works De Oliveira composes mainly electronic and multimedia works for video projects, stage and musical theater. Selected works include: *Polinterações I and II (1970) *Música no espaço, planetarium event (1982/83) *Fata Morgana (1987) *Liturgia Thurs Espaço (1988) *Inori à prostituta Sagrada (1993) *Illud Tempus (1994) *Canto e Raga (1995) *Cenas de una

Jorge Antunes (composer)

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Jorge de Freitas Antunes (born 23 April 1942) is a Brazilian avant-garde composer of electroacoustic and acousmatic music. He is known as the man who pioneered electronic music in Brazil. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Antunes entered the Escola de Música da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in 1959 where he studied violin. He went on to earn Master of Music degrees in both violin and composition from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a Doctor of Music in electroacoustic music from the University of Paris (1977). Biography In 1973, Antunes became a professor at the University of Brasília. He directs the Laboratory of Electroacoustic Music and teaches Composition and Musical Acoustics. Selected works Opera * Contato (1968) * Vivaldia MCMLXXV, chamber opera buffa (1975) * Qorpo Santo, opera in three acts (1983) * O rei de uma nota só (The Single-tone King), mini-opera in four scenes (1991) * A borboleta azul (The Blue Butterfly), mini-opera in two acts (1995) * Olga (composed 1987–97, premiered 2006) Chamber music * Mascaruncho for two violas (1977) * Microformóbiles I for viola and piano (1970) * Modinha para Mindinha (Tune for Mindinha) for seven violas (1985) Discography

Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann

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Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann (1973) is a Peruvian composer, naturalized Brazilian, who currently resides in the United States. Biography Born in Lima, he began musical studies at the age of six, continuing to study the violin with Luis Fiestas and Veronique Daverio. In 1989, he and his family fled Peru for Brazil during the rise of the Maoist Shining Path. In Brazil, he continued musical studies at Faculdade Santa Marcelina with Alberto Jaffe (a student of Max Rostal) and Ayrton Pinto (a former member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra). In 1998, he moved to the USA where he obtained a master’s degree at Florida International University as a student of Fredrick Kaufman and, in 2004 he graduated with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Boston University as a student of John Harbison and Lukas Foss His music has been performed world-wide by ensembles such as the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Peruvian National Symphony, New England Philharmonic, Aspen Sinfonia, Orquesta Uninorte (Paraguay), Kyiv Camerata, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Klangforum Wien, Boston Musica Viva, Da Capo Chamber Players, Seattle Chamber Players, Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble Wien, Ta

José Carlos Amaral Vieira

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José Carlos Amaral Vieira (born 1952 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian composer, pianist, and musicologist. He has performed solo since he was eight years old and studied in Europe from 1965 to 1976. He returned to Brazil in 1977 and has since composed for several genres there. Biography José Carlos Amaral Vieira was born in 1952 in São Paulo . He studied piano with Souza Lima and composition with Artur Hartmann in Brazil. Vieira later studied in France at the Paris Conservatory with Lucette Descaves and Olivier Messiaen; in Germany at the Freiburger Musikhochschule with Carl Seeman and Konrad Lechner; and in the United Kingdom with Louis Kentner. In 1977 he returned to Brazil to embark on the career of a virtuoso performer, while introducing his own compositions in concert programmes. He has achieved international acclaim both as a concert and recording artist, composer, and musicologist, and has appeared throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Among his honors, Vieira has been the recipient of the Arthur Honegger International Composition Award, a Grand Prix International (Fondation de France), Hungary’s Liszt Award, and Japan’s Min-On Award. List of compositions *Te Deum in stilo

José Maurício Nunes Garcia

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José Maurício Nunes Garcia (September 20, 1767 – April 18, 1830) was a Brazilian composer and priest, who is known as one of the greatest exponents of Classicism in the Americas. Born in Rio de Janeiro to bi-racial parents, Nunes Garcia lost his father at an early age. His mother perceived that her son had an inclination for becoming a musician and, for this reason, improved her work to allow him to continue his musical studies. Nunes Garcia became a Catholic priest and, when King John VI of Portugal came to Rio de Janeiro with 15,000 people in tow, Nunes Garcia was appointed Master of the Royal Chapel. He sang and played the harpsichord, performing his compositions as well as those of other composers such as Domenico Cimarosa and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He was a very prestigious musician in the royal court of John VI. His musical style was strongly influenced by Viennese composers of the period, such as Mozart and Haydn. Today, some 240 musical pieces written by Nunes Garcia survive, and at least 170 others are known to have been lost. Most of his compositions are sacred works, but he wrote also some secular pieces, including the opera Le due gemelle and the Tempest Symphony. Inf

Jovino Santos Neto

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Jovino Santos Neto (born September 18, 1954) is a Seattle-based Brazilian-American jazz pianist, flutist, composer, arranger, educator and record producer. Career Jovino Santos Neto started playing piano at age 13 and by 16 was playing keyboards in a band called the Vacancy Group in Bangu, Rio de Janeiro. He earned a degree in Biology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and later attended Macdonald College of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In 1977, he joined the group led by Brazilian composer Hermeto Pascoal, working as a pianist, flutist, composer, arranger and producer. Since leaving Hermeto’s group in 1992 and relocating to the United States, Santos Neto has released several albums. He has toured internationally as the leader of his own ensemble and with musicians such as Airto Moreira, Flora Purim, and Mike Marshall. Santos Neto taught at Seattle’s Cornish College of the Arts for 26 years, ending in May 2020, whereupon he took to teaching via Zoom. He is a frequent teacher at Jazz Camp West. Discography * 1998: Caboclo * 2000: Ao Vivo em Olympia (Live in Olympia, Washington) * 2001: Balaio (Basket) (Malandro) * 2003: Canto do Rio * 2003: Serenata wit

Júlio Medaglia

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Júlio Medaglia (born 1938) is a Brazilian composer, arranger, and conductor. Born in São Paulo, he studied theory and conducting with Hans-Joachim Koellreutter. He continued his studies at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg, Germany, and privately with Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Sir John Barbirolli, with whom he worked as assistant conductor. After his return to Brazil in 1966, he established a solid reputation as a conductor, eventually working with all the major orchestras in the country, in addition to launching his career as arranger and composer of music for film and theater. In 1970, he worked with conductor Günther Schuller in the U.S., and returned for another period of study in Germany, during which he produced several arrangements of Brazilian popular music and composed more than 100 scores for German television movies. Returning to Brazil in 1974, since then he has worked with several musical and cultural institutions in the country, in addition to contributing the soundtrack for hundreds of Brazilian movies, plays, and television programs. Among the institutions that he has directed are the Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro, the Orquestra Sinfônica do Teatr

Kid Vinil

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Kid Vinil, stage name of Antônio Carlos Senefonte (Cedral, 10 March 1955 – São Paulo, 19 May 2017), was a Brazilian singer, radio broadcaster, composer and journalist. He became famous in the Brazilian rock of the 1980s. Biography Kid Vinil was the vocalist of the Brazilian band Magazine, that used to execute the songs Tic Tic Nervoso (composed by Marcos Serra and Antonio Luiz), A Gata Comeu, Sou Boy and Glub Glub No Clube, all three composed by Kid himself. In the beginning of the 1980s, he had been member of Verminose, a band of the genres punk rock and rockabilly. He were too member of the São Paulo Punk Rock Movement in its beginning, organizing shows and playing songs of bands of punk rock and post-punk in his radio program. In TV, he has taken place as artist of the television program Boca Livre in 1987 in TV Cultura. In Bandeirantes TV, he has presented the program Mocidade Independente and after he became VJ (video performance artist) of MTV, taking place in programs like Lado B in which he used to present videoclips. He returned to the scene in Magazine in 2000, with the second work by the label Trama, the CD Na Honestidade in 2002. Closed the Magazine, he made a new band,

Kilza Setti

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Kilza Setti de Castro Lima (born 26 January 1932) is a Brazilian ethnomusicologist, composer, and pianist. Biography Kilza Setti was born in São Paulo, Brazil. She started her studies on piano with Leonilda Morganti and at the age of 8 she started piano classes with Fructuoso Vianna. In 1953 she graduated from the Conservatório Dramático e Musical de São Paulo where she studied composition with Camargo Guarnieri, and won scholarships for study in composition and research in ethnomusic at the Torcuato di Tella Institute in Buenos Aires. She also earned a scholarship to the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal, where she studied under anthropologist Michel Giacometti and composer Fernando Lopes-Graça. Setti graduated from the University of São Paulo in 1982 with a doctorate degree in social anthropology. She studied the music of the European- and Indigenous-born fishermen on the southeastern coast of Brazil and the ritual music of the Mbya Guarani and Timbira Indians of Central Brazil, and founded the Brazilian Association of Folklore. Setti received awards for her compositions, including first prize in the composition competitions. She is a visiting professor at the Fe

Lamartine Babo

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Lamartine Babo (10 January 1904 — 16 June 1963) was one of the most important popular composers of Brazil. He also appeared in four films. Career Babo composed several satirical sambas, marchinhas and other songs. Babo is especially remembered for composing anthems for all the main professional football clubs of Rio de Janeiro (América, Bangu, Bonsucesso, Botafogo, Canto do Rio, Flamengo, Fluminense, Madureira, Olaria, São Cristóvão, and Vasco da Gama). References External links * *

Lívio Tragtenberg

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Lívio Romano Tragtenberg (born 1961) is a Brazilian musician, composer, music theorist, professor and record producer. Biography Tragtenberg was born in São Paulo in 1961, to professor and sociologist and actress . On his father’s side, he is of German-Jewish descent, and has a brother – Marcelo, a physician – and a sister – Lucila, a soprano singer. When he was 13 years old he learned by himself how to play the drum kit, leading on to other instruments. During his later youth he met and befriended poets Décio Pignatari and siblings Haroldo and Augusto de Campos, who heavily influenced him, later dropping out from high school to follow a career on music. His debut album, Ritual, came out in 1980. Later in the 1980s he composed the operas O. de A. do Brasil and O Inferno de Wall Street, the latter based on a poem by 19th-century author Sousândrade, and was a session musician for the 1988 EP The Early Years, by progressive rock band Violeta de Outono. Throughout the 1990s to the mid-2000s he continued to release albums, collaborating with Pignatari and , and was a music theory professor for Unicamp from 1990 to 1998. He also managed the projects Blind Sound Orchestra (which is compos

Lord Vinheteiro

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Fabrício André Bernard Di Paolo (born 1980), known professionally as Lord Vinheteiro, is a Brazilian pianist, accordionist, sound engineer, musician, aquarist, and YouTuber. Vinheteiro is best known for playing piano covers on his YouTube channel, where he has over 7 million subscribers and over 1 billion views. Vinheteiro was a part of the Pânico program produced by Brazilian radio station Jovem Pan FM. Vinheteiro has been known to be critical of brazilian music, especially funk carioca, and for his alignment with right-wing politics. Career In 1988, at the age of 8, Vinheteiro started learning music. He took private lessons in piano and violin. Vinheteiro enrolled in the Arts Institute (IA) of State University of São Paulo. He did not finish the course. and The Noite com Danilo Gentili Vinheteiro produces content weekly for his YouTube channel, which has over 7 million subscribers. References External links * *

Lucas Santtana

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Lucas Mascarenhas Santana (born October 18, 1970), known as his stage name Lucas Santtana, is a Brazilian singer, composer and producer from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. In his CD, Sem Nostalgia (YB Music, 2009), he recreates the Brazilian guitar tradition, mixing up sounds from the 1950s, like João Gilberto and Dorival Caymmi, with mashups, samples and his own creations. His album O Céu É Velho Há Muito Tempo was considered one of the 25 best Brazilian albums of the second half of 2019 by the São Paulo Association of Art Critics (APCA). APCA also chose his album O Paraíso as one of the 50 best Brazilian albums of 2023. References External links * Lucas Santtana Official Website * Lucas Santtana on facebook * Lucas Santtana on Twitter

Luciana Souza

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Luciana Souza (born 12 July 1966) is a Brazilian jazz singer and composer who also works in bossa nova, pop, classical and chamber music. She won a Grammy Award in 2007, and has been nominated for seven others, most recently in 2024. Souza is considered to be one of jazz’s leading singers and interpreters. The New York Times called her voice “smooth-surfaced, coolly sensuous and dartingly agile.” Early life and education Souza was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil. Her father Walter Santos was a singer, songwriter, and commercial musician who also contributed background vocals to bossa nova recordings by Antônio Carlos Jobim and João Gilberto, and her mother Tereza Souza was a poet and lyricist. She began her recording career at age three with a radio commercial. Career Souza has performed and recorded with Herbie Hancock, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Bobby McFerrin, Maria Schneider, Danilo Pérez, Guillermo Klein, John Patitucci, and others. She has been a soloist in new works by composers including Osvaldo Golijov, Derek Bermel, Patrick Zimmerli, Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Shara Nova, Caroline Shaw, and Sarah Kirkland Snider, performing with the New York Philharmonic, Atlanta

Luciano Gallet

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Luciano Gallet (June 28, 1893 in Rio de Janeiro – October 29, 1931 in Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian composer, conductor and pianist. Gallet was born in Rio de Janeiro to a French-Brazilian father and a French mother and displayed musical talent at a young age, winning the Gold Medal from the Instituto Nacional de Música in 1916. He began piano playing as a school boy, and first studied and graduated in architecture, before enrolling at the Instituto Nacional de Música to study music with Henrique Oswald, Abdon Milanez and Agnelo França. In 1917, he studied harmony with Darius Milhaud. In 1922, he started to conduct the choir and the orchestra of the Instituto Nacional de Música and in 1926 he became publisher of the music magazine Weco. In 1930 he was one of the founders of the Associação Brasileira de Música and became Director of the Instituto Nacional de Música. Gallet spearheaded a campaign called Reagir! (to fight back) in 1930 to “rescue” Brazilian music and culture from what he saw as popular indifference. His initial article, published in the newspaper O Globo, was republished and circulated widely. Gallet was married to Luisa Gallet until his death in 1931. She later mar

Lycia de Biase Bidart

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Lycia de Biase Bidart (18 February 1910 – 10 July 1991) was a Brazilian pianist, violinist, conductor, music educator and composer. She was one of the first women to conduct an orchestra in Brazil, leading the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Theater Symphony Orchestra in 1933 and 1934. Life and career Lycia de Biase was born in Vitoria, Espírito Santo, the daughter of Commander Pietrângelo De Biase, born in Castellucci Superiore, Italy (1884) and Maria Arcângela Vivacqua De Biase, born in Muniz Freire, Espírito Santo. Lycia began her studies in Rio de Janeiro with Neusa Franca for piano and Giovanni Giannetti for harmony and composition, and later continued her studies with Magdalena Tagliaferro. She married João Baptista Bidart. Works Selected works include: *A noiva do mar, opera, 1939 *Estudos expressionistas for two horns *Cantos tupis for horn, flute and clarinet, 1975 * Ballet fantasia: simbolismo e vivência do Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, ballet, 1976 References

Marcos Balter

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Marcos Balter (born April 1, 1974) is a Brazilian contemporary classical music composer and the Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition at Columbia University. Life and professional career Balter began his music studies at age five at the Conservatório Musical Heitor Villa-Lobos, and was admitted to the Conservatório Brasileiro de Música at age eleven. During his late teenage years, Balter studied privately with composer Almeida Prado and pianist Linda Bustani. He moved to the United States in 1995 to study music composition at Texas Christian University and later on at Northwestern University. His main composition teachers were Augusta Read Thomas, Amy Williams, and Jay Alan Yim. His works have been programmed by prominent music organizations including the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra MusicNOW Series, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, Philharmonie de Paris, San Francisco Symphony, Ojai Music Festival, New World Center, Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, São Paulo Municipal Symphony Orchestra, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, and the Fromm Music Series at Harvard University. Past honors include the American Academy of Art

Maria Helena Rosas Fernandes

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Maria Helena Rosas Fernandes (born 1933) is a Brazilian composer, pianist, musicologist, conductor and music educator. Fernandes was born in Brazópolis in Minas Gerais state, and graduated in piano from the Brazilian Conservatory of Music of Guanabara State in piano and from the Superior School of Music Santa Marcelina in composition and conducting. After completing her studies, Fernandes worked as a choral conductor and music teacher at conservatories and published research on indigenous Brazilian music. Her works have been performed internationally and won awards including the 2006 Nancy Van de Vate International Composition Prize for Opera for Marília de Dirceu. Works Selected works include: *Prelúdio *Valsa *Cantilena *Canto de Maricatu *Marília de Dirceu, opera Her compositions have been recorded and issued on CD, including: *Brasileira: Piano Music by Brazilian Women (2003) Centaur Records References

Marisa Rezende

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Marisa Rezende (born 8 August 1944) is a Brazilian music educator and composer. Personal life Marisa Rezende was born in Rio de Janeiro, the daughter of a doctor (Nunes de Barcellos) and his wife (Costa Pereira) of Portuguese ancestry. She began playing piano at four without instruction and began lessons at age five. She studied piano at Escola de Musica in Rio, but her studies were interrupted by marriage. The couple moved in 1964 to Boston, Massachusetts, where her husband worked on a master’s degree at MIT. Rezende had two daughters in Boston, and when the family moved back to Rio in 1967, she had a third daughter before resuming her studies in composition. The family moved to Recife, where she worked as a pianist with the orchestra and finished her undergraduate degree. She studied fugue and counterpoint with Morelenbaum and Virginia Fiuza and composition with Padre Jaime Diniz. Career After graduating, she completed a master’s degree in piano at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she studied composition with Peter Fricker and David Gordon. She also completed a doctorate in composition at UCSB, and post-doctoral work at the University of Keele, England. After co

Mestre Damasceno

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Damasceno Gregório dos Santos (July 22, 1954 – August 26, 2025), better known as Mestre Damasceno, was a Brazilian Carimbó singer and cultural director. Life and career Damasceno was a Carimbó master and creator of the Búfalo-Bumbá de Salvaterra, a June revelry derived from the auto do boi and whose central figure is the Marajoara buffalo. By 2012, Damasceno had more than 400 compositions. In 2023, he had his work declared as intangible cultural heritage of the State of Pará. In 2025, Damasceno was awarded as Commander of the Order of Cultural Merit (OMC), receiving the honor in Rio de Janeiro, in a Solemn ceremony attended by the President of the Republic and the Minister of Culture. Death Damasceno died August 26, 2025, aged 71. References External links * *

Miúcha

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Heloísa Maria Buarque de Hollanda (30 November 1937 – 27 December 2018), known professionally as Miúcha, was a Brazilian singer and composer. She belonged to a musical family. Her siblings included singer and composer Chico Buarque and two sisters, the singers Ana de Hollanda and Cristina Buarque. She was the second wife and creative partner of João Gilberto, and mother of singer Bebel Gilberto. Life and career Heloísa Maria Buarque de Hollanda was born in Rio de Janeiro. When she was 8 years old her family moved to São Paulo. As a child she formed a vocal ensemble with her siblings. In 1960 she moved to Paris where she studied Art History at the École du Louvre. In 1975, she recorded professionally for the first time singing on the album The Best of Two Worlds in partnership with João Gilberto and Stan Getz. After this release, Miúcha partnered with Tom Jobim on two albums, in 1977 and 1979, and was part of the show organized by Aloysio de Oliveira along with Vinicius de Moraes, Tom Jobim and Toquinho. The act was shown for a year at Canecão in Rio de Janeiro, followed by international shows in South America and Europe, and gave origin to the recording Tom, Vinícius, Toquinho e Mi

Moacir Santos

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Moacir Santos (26 July 1926 – 6 August 2006) was a Brazilian composer, multi-instrumentalist and music educator. Musicians such as Baden Powell, Bola Sete and Wilson das Neves studied under him. As a composer, Santos worked with Nara Leão, Roberto Menescal, Sérgio Mendes and Lynda Laurence, among others. His music was highly respected by musicians in Brazil and the United States, despite never achieving wider recognition. Mark Levine, Anat Cohen, and Muiza Adnet have all released albums consisting entirely of Santos’ music. Life and career Moacir Santos was born in Flores do Pajeú, Pernambuco in 1926. His mother died when he was two years old, and as his father had already left the family, he was taken in by another family. In 1967, Santos and his wife, Cleonice, moved to Pasadena, California, with the intent of breaking into the film industry. Shortly before dying, Santos was awarded the Shell Music and Premio Tim awards. Discography As leader * Coisas (Forma, 1965) * Maestro (Blue Note, 1972) * Saudade (Blue Note, 1974) * Carnival of the Spirits (Blue Note, 1975) * Opus 3 No. 1 (Discovery, 1979) * Ouro Negro (Universal, 2001) * Choros & Alegria (Adventure Music, 2005) As sideman

Najla Jabor

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Maia de Carvalho Najla Jabor (25 September 1915 – 9 March 2001) was a Brazilian conductor and composer. She composed concerti and symphonic works, but is best known for sacred songs. She was born and died in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Works Selected works include: *Suite de seis peças, no. 3. Um adeus (Text: Alda Pereira Pinto), no. 5. A um poeta (Text: Alda Pereira Pinto), no. ?. Louco devaneio (Text: Alda Pereira Pinto) *A palavra de Deus (Text: Stela Dubois) *A semente é a dor amor (Text: Roque Martins) *A um poeta (in Suite de seis peças) (Text: Alda Pereira Pinto) *A um poeta - Loucos devaneios *Alucinação (Text: José Alfredo Maia de Carvalho) *Assim falou o poeta *Ave Maria (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) *Balada n.1: Teus olhos (Text: Beni Carvalho) *Balada n.2 (Text: Ricardina Marques da Silva) *Barcarola, op. 92 (Text: Dylma Cunha de Oliveira) *Batuque n.1 (Text: Silvio Moreaux) *Batuque n.2 (Text: Raimundo de Brito) *Berceuse, op. 11 *Canção bárbara (Text: Olga Mayer) *Canção de amor (Text: Iveta Ribeiro) *Canção do trovador (Text: José Alfredo Maia de Carvalho) *Canção dos olhos *Canção simples (berceuse), op. 83 (Text: Nóbrega de Siqueira) *Copo de cristal (Text: Agrip

Nando Lauria

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Nando Lauria (born 11 May 1960) is a Brazilian singer and guitarist. Biography At the age of seven, Lauria picked up the violão (Brazilian acoustic guitar). He was raised in a musical family—his older brother played electric guitar in a band. Lauria used to attend his concerts and mimic the playing of his brother’s band members on his acoustic guitar. As a youth he listened repeatedly to the music of The Beatles and popular Brazilian musicians of the 1970s. On his own he picked up the elements of music and taught himself to play chords. He learned to improvise and took great pleasure in his musical discoveries. At the age of 12 he took part in many school productions and was seen on local television and theater. When he was 15, he attended the “Abertura” music festival in Brazil, where he got in touch with the guitar duo Burnier & Cartier. Other musicians at the festival included Milton Nascimento, Clube da Esquina, Ivan Lins, Djavan, and Egberto Gismonti. At age 16 he wrote his first song, “Jangadeiro”, which is said to have influenced his desire to become a composer. In 1978 Lauria formed the band Nós e Voz, which was influenced by the vocal group Boca Livre. With this band he pl

Nilson Lombardi

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Nilson Lombardi (January 3, 1926 – April 9, 2008) was a pianist, composer and Brazilian maestro with a vast contribution to the classical music in many countries. His compositions have also been interpreted in international recitals and recordings on disc by Eudoxia de Barros, Attilio Mastrogiovanni, Orlando Retroz, Beatriz Balzi, and others. Lombarti was awarded the APCA prize of São Paulo Association of Art Critics of classical music lovers and artists influencing contemporary classical music in Brazil and abroad. Nilson Lombardi worked with Mozart Camargo Guarnieri (1907–1993), one of the most important contributors of Brazilian music. Lombardi was defined as a follower of the work of Guarnieri. Nilson Lombardi’s family made the donation collection of the composer at the Tatuí Musical Conservatory “Dr. Carlos Campos”, the Conservatory of Tatuí. The collection includes about 600 items, including books, music, trophies, a typewriter, and every work of Nilson Lombardi. Singer and producer Marcia Mah released the book “Nilson Lombardi Complete Works” in 2002, published by TCM. It has 408 pages of biography and pieces for solo piano, voice and piano, chamber music, symphony orchestra

Oscar Lorenzo Fernández

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Oscar Lorenzo Fernández (4 November 1897 – 27 August 1948) was a Brazilian composer of Spanish descent. He was born and died in Rio de Janeiro. Life Fernández studied at the Instituto Nacional de Música with Francisco Braga, Frederico Nascimento, and Henrique Oswald. In 1923, Nascimento was taken seriously ill, and Fernández was designated his temporary substitute in the chair of upper-level harmony, an appointment which became permanent two years later. In 1936 he founded the Conservatório Brasileiro de Música in Rio de Janeiro, which he directed until his death. From 1939 onward, he also served as Professor of Choral Singing at the Conservatório Nacional de Canto Orfeônico. In 1930 Fernández composed the three-movement suite Reisado do Pastoreio, the last movement of which, “Batuque” (an Afro-Brazilian folk dance), became very popular. He composed a three-act opera, Malazarte (1931–33), to a libretto by José Pereira Graça Aranha, who adapted it from his own play of the same title. For the premiere at the Teatro Municipal (Rio de Janeiro, 1941), the libretto was translated into Italian. Malazarte is a nationalist work in both its subject matter and its musical content, and is cons

Osvaldo Lacerda

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Osvaldo Costa de Lacerda (March 23, 1927 – July 18, 2011) was a Brazilian composer and professor of music. Lacerda is known for a Brazilian nationalist musical style that combines elements of Brazilian folk and popular music as well as twentieth-century art music, as exemplified in the works of his teacher M. Camargo Guarnieri (1907–1997). His compositional output includes works for orchestra, choir, smaller vocal and instrumental ensembles, voice and piano, solo instrument and piano, solo piano, and other solo instruments. He received several musical awards during his lifetime, including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and contributed significantly to the training of younger musicians in Brazil as a professor of composition and theory, member of various musical organizations and societies, and author of textbooks for theory, ear training, and notation. Biography Early life and musical training Lacerda was born in the city of São Paulo in 1927 and remained there throughout his early years. He began his musical training with piano lessons from teacher Ana Veloso de Resende when he was nine years old, later studying piano with José Kliass, and he also starte

Paulo Bethencourt

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Paulo Bethencourt (born Paulo Bethencourt da Silva Franco Neto, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a music producer, composer, and arranger. He has created original works for labels and media companies such as Sony Music International, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, BMG, and Discovery Channel. Early life Bethencourt was raised during Brazil’s authoritarian military regime, which lasted from 1964 to 1985. His formative years were shaped by the emergence of MPB (Música Popular Brasileira), a genre rooted in Bossa Nova and known for its veiled lyrical critiques of social injustice and state repression. At the age of nine, he began studying piano under the tutelage of Ethel Sophia Galliza. Shortly thereafter, he was introduced to Jazz and Bossa Nova by his neighbor, the acclaimed saxophonist Victor Assis Brasil, who had performed with international jazz legends such as Chick Corea, Dizzy Gillespie, and Ron Carter. Encouraged by renowned classical composer and conductor Edino Krieger, Bethencourt resolved to pursue a professional career in music. In 1989, he became the first Brazilian citizen to receive a government-sponsored grant to study jazz abroad—an initiative reflecting Br

Paulo César Pinheiro

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Paulo César Pinheiro (born 28 April 1949) is a Brazilian poet and composer. One of the best poets of Musica Popular Brasileira, he wrote lyrics for a great number of songs for some of the best-known entertainers in Brazil. Among his collaborators have been João Nogueira, João de Aquino, Francis Hime, Dori Caymmi, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Ivan Lins, Edu Lobo, Mauro Duarte, Guinga, Baden Powell de Aquino, Toquinho, Eduardo Gudin e Maria Bethânia. Discography * Poesia Musicada (2011) - album by Dori Caymmi to celebrate 42 years working with Paulo César Pinheiro * Capoeira De Besouro (June 2010) * O Lamento do Samba (2003) * Tudo o que mais nos uniu - Eduardo Gudin, Márcia e Paulo César Pinheiro (1996) * Parceria - João Nogueira e Paulo César Pinheiro - Ao Vivo (1994) * Afros e Afoxés da Bahia (1989) * Poemas Escolhidos (1983) * O importante é que a nossa emoção sobreviva n. 2 (1976) * O importante é que a nossa emoção sobreviva (1975) Books * Canto Brasileiro (1973) * Viola Morena (1984) * Atabaques, Violas e Bambus (2000) * Clave de Sal * Pontal do Pilar (2009) References External links

Paulo Ricardo (musician)

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Paulo Ricardo Oliveira Nery de Medeiros (born September 23, 1962) is a Brazilian rock singer, musician and songwriter. He was a longtime member of the band RPM as a bass guitarist and vocalist. He has also released several solo albums. Early life In his childhood, Ricardo listened to Nat King Cole and the collections of the famous Big Bands from Toquinho, Vinícius de Morais and Maria Creuza. He joined the band Prisma in the late 1970s and also founded the band Aura in the early 1980s. He rode with a keyboard player Luiz Schiavon, formed Aura, without expressive results. Career In early 1983, Ricardo co-formed the rock band RPM. Their debut album Revoluções por Minuto was released in 1985. It sold more than 600 thousand copies. The album came with a sound tuned with the best of pop rock of the time (Duran Duran, A-HA, Alphaville) and lyrics with direct influence of progressive rock. In 1986, they released the live album Rádio Pirata ao Vivo, which was directed by Ney Matogrosso, and which sold more than 3.7 million copies across the country. In 1988, they released the album RPM (known as Os quatro Coiotes ), which was a sales failure selling only 200,000 copies. The atmosphere betwe

Paulo Sérgio Valle

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Paulo Sérgio Kostenbader Valle (born August 6, 1940) is a Brazilian composer and lyricist. Career Valle started his career as part of the bossa nova trend when, with his brother Marcos Valle, he composed “Samba de Verão”, which became one of the three Brazilian songs to become global hits along with “The Girl from Ipanema” and “Aquarela do Brasil.” After this, Valle went on to write lyrics for various other composers, becoming one of the most important lyricists in a number of genres. He also became a successful jingle-writer as well. Valle is also the lyricist, alongside Nelson Motta, to write the Christmas theme song for Rede Globo, with music by Marcos Valle and arrangements by Hugo Bellard. He also wrote the lyrics to the anthem of Goiás Esporte Clube. His music has been featured in In Time, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Repo Men, and in the Brazilian telenovela Pigmalião 70. He won the IV Music Olympiad in Athens, Greece with his song “Minha Voz Virá do Sol da América.” Personal life Valle is the grandson of Eurico de Freitas Vale, ex-governor of Pará from 1929 to 1930. References External links * Official site *

Ricardo Tacuchian

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Ricardo Tacuchian, born in Rio de Janeiro (born 18 November 1939), is a Brazilian conductor, composer and Doctor in Musical Arts (Composition) at the University of Southern California. Positions he has held include Titular Professor of both UFRJ and UNIRIO (where he was the Titular Conductor of the Unirio Orchestra), visiting professor of the State University of New York at Albany and of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He received grants and scholarship from Capes, CNPq (Brazil), Other Minds, Fulbright Commission, Rockefeller Foundation (USA), and Appolon Stiftung (Germany), among others. He is a lifetime member of the Brazilian Music Academy, the highest honoring musical institution in Brazil. Partial List of Works 5 Cantatas *O Canto do Poeta (1969): Cecília Meireles; soprano, violin, flute, and piano. RJ, 1970. *Cantata dos Mortos (1965): Vinicius de Moraes; baritone, narrator, mixed choir, oboe, bassoon, piano, timpani, and percussion Sistrum, 1981 . Ouro Preto, 1978. *Cantata de Natal (1978): Holy Bible, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Manuel Bandeira, and Folk *Christmas Cycle of the State of Rio de Janeiro; Soprano, Baritone, Narrator, Mixed Choir, and Symphony Orchestra. Rio d

Robertinho do Recife

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Carlos Roberto Cavalcanti de Albuquerque (born 1953), known as Robertinho do Recife, is a Brazilian guitarist, record producer, composer born in the city of Recife, Brazil. His first contact with the guitar was at the age of 10. After he was run over by a car, he had to stay long periods of time at home and had to watch a lot of TV. In one of these TV programs he met the Beatles and fell in love with the guitar. He got his first guitar as a gift from his grandfather. At the age of 12 he was already playing with bands in Recife. He had very good technique and later was invited to play with bands like: Watch Pocket, Chicago and Quiet Riot. He played a little of everything: from music for children, to heavy metal and neoclassical. At the end of the 1980s he played with the Brazilian band Yahoo, when they played a cover of “Love Bites”, a song from the British band Def Leppard. He is currently working as a music producer in his own studio in Rio de Janeiro. Since the 1970s he has worked with artists like Geraldo Azevedo, Zé Ramalho and Raimundo Fagner. Discography * 1977: Jardim da Infância * 1978: Robertinho no Passo (featuring Hermeto Pascoal) * 1979: E Agora pra Vocês… Suingues Tr

Rogerio Caetano

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Rogerio Caetano (born Goiânia, September 26, 1977) is a Brazilian musician, arranger, musical producer and composer. Bachelor of Music in Composition by the University of Brasília, he is an awarded virtuoso and international reference in 7 string guitar. Using a revolutionary language, within the choro and samba music genres and mixing jazz elements, he represents a new school for this instrument. He has a method for the instrument and a discography with 11 albums, being awarded in 2016 in the Brazilian Music Awards. In 2015 and 2019 he was awarded the IMA (Independent Music Awards), Best Instrumentalists 2015/Embrulhador, and 2017 and 2021, in the Music Pro Awards. His partners include Yamandu Costa, Hamilton de Holanda, Daniel Santiago, Marco Pereira, Eduardo Neves, Celsinho Silva, Luís Barcelos, Gian Correa, Cristovão Bastos, and Coletivo Choro na Rua. He has been promoting his art in Brazil and abroad, performing concerts in countries such as Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Portugal, Holland, Belgium, USA, China, India, Israel, Turkey, South Africa, and Ecuador. He has recorded with artists such as Zeca Pagodinho, Paulinho da Viola, Arlindo Cruz, Beth Carvalho, Caetano

Rogério Skylab

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Rogério Tolomei Teixeira (born September 2, 1956), known professionally as Rogério Skylab, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, lyricist, classical guitarist, author, blogger, record producer, actor and short-lived television presenter. Describing himself as a “corpse within MPB”, his unique musical style which granted him a passionate cult following is characterized by minimalism, repetition and eclecticism, and his writings are permeated by grotesque, shocking and offensive imagery; acerbic allusions to popular culture; metafictional and transgressive devices; absurdist, surreal and oftentimes macabre scenarios; pessimism; foul language; nihilism; and scatological and black comedy – although he has repeatedly denied that his work is purposefully humorous. Some of his most recognizable compositions are “Matador de Passarinho” (which brought him into nationwide fame in the underground scene), “Motosserra”, “Funérea”, “Naquela Noite”, “Carrocinha de Cachorro-Quente”, “Dedo, Língua, Cu e Boceta”, “Eu Chupo o Meu Pau”, “Fátima Bernardes Experiência” and “Chico Xavier & Roberto Carlos” (the latter two being notable for having been censored from their original releases). Also dedicating hi

Ronaldo Miranda

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Ronaldo Miranda (b. April 26, 1948 Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian composer and music professor. Miranda studied at the Escola de Música da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, under Henrique Morelenbaum for composition and Dulce de Saules for piano. From 1974 to 1981 Miranda was the primary music critic for the Jornal do Brasil. In 1977, Miranda won first prize in the chamber music category at the Concurso Nacional de Composição para a II Bienal de Música Brasileira Contemporânea da Sala Cecília Meireles. After this, he became a freelance composer. The following year, he represented Brazil at the Tribune International de Componistes de UNESCO in Paris, France. In 1981 he was awarded a gold medal by the governor of Rio de Janeiro state. He was in the program at the World Music Days in Aarhus, Denmark in 1983, at the Tenth Musik-Biennale in Berlin, Germany, and at the World Music Days in Budapest, Hungary in 1986. His opera Dom Casmurro premiered at the Municipal Theater of São Paulo in 1992, and was very popular with both audience and critics. In 2001, he won the Troféu Carlos Gomes and the Composer of the Year award by the governor of São Paulo state. Miranda’s works have been p

Sérgio Assad

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Sérgio Assad (born 26 December 1952) is a Brazilian guitarist, composer, and arranger who often performs with his brother, Odair, in the guitar duo Sérgio and Odair Assad, commonly referred to as the Assad Brothers or Duo Assad. Their younger sister Badi is also a guitarist. Assad is the father of composer/singer/pianist Clarice Assad. He is married to Angela Olinto. Biography Born into a musical family in Mococa, São Paulo, Brazil, Assad began creating music for the guitar not long after he began playing the instrument. He learned Brazilian folk melodies from his father. By age 14, he was arranging and writing original compositions for the guitar duo he had formed with his brother, Odair. At the age of 17, he and Odair began their studies under the best known classical guitar teacher in Brazil at the time, Monina Tavora, a former disciple of Andrés Segovia. Sergio later went on to study conducting and composition at the Escola Nacional de Música in Rio de Janeiro, and worked privately with Brazilian composition teacher, Esther Scliar. He is the spouse of the physicist Angela Olinto. Arrangements Over the last twenty years Assad has concentrated most of his efforts on building a re

Sérgio Cassiano

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Sérgio Cassiano (born August 1967) is a Brazilian jazz composer, percussionist, writer, producer, and bandleader. Biography Early life and education Born and raised in the state of Pernambuco, Sergio was exposed to a wide variety of music in his youth. His musical influences ranged from local artist such as Luiz Gonzaga to the Beatles. He formalized his music education by studying classical and contemporary instruments at the Federal University of Pernambuco and has also performed with several acclaimed musicians and theater groups. Career For well over two decades, Sergio Cassiano has explored widely divergent musical traditions while continually striving to make a difference in the lives of others by “moving his listener to a higher level through his inspiring lyrics.” As composer, percussionist, writer, producer, and bandleader, he plays traditional North Eastern music of the Pernambuco region known for its soulful harmonic and melodic blends of African, Native and Iberian Brazilian sounds. As a panderio teacher and song writer, Sergio continues to share and document his own life’s transformation through the lyrics he writes while working to preserve the Brazilian folkloric trad

Sérgio Mendes

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Sérgio Santos Mendes (; 11 February 1941 – 5 September 2024) was a Brazilian musician. His career took off with worldwide hits by his band Brasil ‘66. He released 35 albums and was known for playing bossa nova, often mixed with funk. He was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song in 2012 as a co-writer of “Real in Rio” from the animated film Rio. Mendes was primarily known in the United States, where his albums were recorded and where most of his touring took place. He was married to Gracinha Leporace, who performed with him from the early 1970s. Mendes collaborated with many artists, including Black Eyed Peas, with whom he re-recorded in 2006 a remake of his 1966 version of the song “Mas que nada”, which was a breakthrough hit for him. Biography Early career Mendes was born in Niterói, east across Guanabara Bay from Rio de Janeiro, on 11 February 1941. As he related in In the Key of Joy, a biopic about his career, he had to wear a cast for three years because he had osteomyelitis. His father was a doctor, and he was one of the first people in Brazil to be given penicillin. Sergio studied classical music at the local conservatory with hopes of becoming a classical pianist. As

Silvio Barbato

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Silvio Sergio Bonaccorsi Barbato (11 May 19591 June 2009) was an Italian-Brazilian opera conductor and composer. He died on board Air France Flight 447. Life and career Maestro Barbato was born in Italy, the son of Daniele Barbato and Rosalba Bonaccorsi, daughter of Silvio and Alvara Bonaccorsi and granddaughter of Celestino and Luigi Bonaccorsi, descendants of the Bonaccorsi brothers, originally from Fornaci di Barga, (Italy), who emigrated to Brazil at the end of the 19th century. His grandparents were both doctors in Candeias (Minas Gerais), (Brazil). His father died in Brasília, of a heart attack, in the 1990s, when at the time he was a professor at the university of the capital. He graduated in “conducting” at the University of Brasília; he studied conducting and composition first with Cláudio Santoro and then he moved to Milan where he continued with Azio Corghi at “Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi”. In 1984 he received his merit degree at the “Accademia Musicale Chigiana” of Siena, and one year later he graduated from the “Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi”, also receiving the gold medal in High Conducting, the first Brazilian to receive of this honour since Carlos Gomes. His conduct

Sílvio Ferraz

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Sílvio Ferraz (born 1959 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian contemporary composer. His works have been performed in Brazil and abroad. In 1993 he received two commissions from the British Council when he had the opportunity to work with the Nash Ensemble and the Smith Quartet. In 1994 two works are performed by Ensemble Contrechamps. His works have also been played by Arditti String Quartet, Champs d’Action, Iktus Ensemble and Taller de Musica Contemporanea de Chile. Among those ensembles that played his pieces are the Brazilian Grupo Novo Horizonte, Duo Diálogos, Camerata Aberta, Orquestra Municipal de São Paulo, Coral do Estado de São Paulo. Professional Background In 1977 he entered the composition course at the University of São Paulo (USP), where he studied with Gilberto Mendes and Willy Corrêa de Oliveira. After his university studies he followed composition courses with Brian Ferneyhough and James Dillon (1994 at Royaumont Abbey, France) and Gerard Grisey and Jonathan Harvey (at the IRCAM’s “Académie d’été” in 1998). In 1997 he concluded his doctorate in Music Semiotics at the Pontifical Catholic University of S. Paulo (PUC-SP) with a thesis about the concept of difference and rep

Wilhelm Schröter

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Wilhelm Schröter is a composer and pianist. Schröter was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, January 16, 1960. Biography Schröter was born into a family of musicians. His father, Harry, was a violinist and his mother, Maria Helena Didier Moniz de Aragão do Rego Maciel Schröter, was pianist and piano teacher. When he was just nine years old Wilhelm started to accompany his aunt Maria Schroeter, a soprano, on piano performing pieces by Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann. He wrote his first composition at age 12. Schröter began his career in 1975 performing piano recitals at age 15 in Brazil. He graduated with a degree in music in 1988. Schröter no longer tours and now concentrates on composing. He mainly composes classical music, but sometimes experiments with other music genres such as jazz with classical elements, pop, voice and movie themes. He also writes music electronically. He has written approximately 300 works. He is the cousin of Olga Maria Schröter, a soprano, who is also related to composers Johann Samuel Schröter, his sister Corona Schröter, Leonhart Schröte and Christoph Gottlieb Schröter. Awards Schröter received his first award at 16 years of age. His first solo performer