musician (composer, pianist, theorist, professor, conductor, sound engineer)

Contact Information:

Universidade Estadual de Maringá,
Centro de Ciências Humanas Letras e Artes,
Departamento de Música
Av. Colombo, 5790 - Bloco 008, sala 2
cep 87020-900 - Maringá, PR - Brazil
phone: (55)(44) 3011-4092
website
CNPq Lattes CV

Degrees Earned :

Doctor of Musical Arts (music composition), with Distinction .
Columbia University in the City of New York, 2003.
Thesis : Music: Electroacoustic radio-opera on a story by Vielimir Khlebnikov, libretto by the composer. Essay: “Doctor Frankenstein, I Presume … or The Art of Vivisection”. Studies on the internal mechanisms of Music Composition and Computer Music, reworking concepts taken from theoretical works about Cinema, Musique Concrète and Semiotics.
Read my DMA dissertation essay
Listen to my Radio-Opera KA

Master of Arts (music composition).
Columbia University in the City of New York, 1998.
Thesis : Concerto for Piano and Orchestra.

Bachelor of Arts (music performance: piano).
Universidade de São Paulo, 1995.

Selected List of teachers :

At Columbia University: Tristan Murail (computer-assisted composition, orchestration, history and aesthetics of computer music), Bradford Garton and Thanassis Rikakis (computer music), Joseph Dubiel (composition, set-theory), Fred Lerdahl (composition, 20th century styles and techniques), Jonathan Kramer (composition), George Stauffer (organ).

At the Universidade de São Paulo: Willy Corrêa de Oliveira (composition, language and structure of music), José Eduardo Martins (piano), Mário Ficarelli (harmony, counterpoint), Aylton Escobar (orchestration), Lorenzo Mammi (Music History, Brazilian Music History), Marco Antônio da Silva Ramos (conducting).

Teaching Positions Held :

• Professor of Music Theory and Composition, State University of Maringá, Paraná, Brazil, 2006-present date;
  

Courses taught:
- Harmony I and II
- Music Analysis I and II
- Computer Music and Digital Audio Production
- Composition I and III
- Electroacoustic Composition
- History of Music III (twentieth century)
- Ethnomusicology
- Ear Training I and II
- Special Topics I: “Analytical Principles for the late 19th-century Extended Tonality” (master-degree graduate level course);

Other activities:
- Undergraduate Research advising;
- Director of the Undergraduate Music Major Program (07/2012 to present, 07/2010 to 06/2012 and 05/2007 to 06/2008);
- Director of the Laboratory for Research and Audio Production - LAPPSO;
- Coordinator of the inter-institutional Master in Music joint graduate program of the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) and the State University of Maringá (2009-2011);

• Assistant Professor of Music, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg VA, 2003-2006;
  

Courses taught:
- Common-Practice Tonal Theory I, II, and III
- Introduction to Electroacoustic Music
- Introduction to Tonal Theory
- Topics in Music: Cinema for the Ear: A History and Aesthetics of Electroacoustic Music

• Adjunct Professor, Lehman College of the City University of New York, New York NY, Spring semester 2002 ;
  

Courses taught:
- Advanced Electronic Music course (graduate level)

• Theory Teaching Assistant and Instructor, Columbia University, New York NY, 1998-2002;

Courses taught:
- Diatonic Harmony/Counterpoint
- Introductory Ear Training
- Ear Training I

• Assistant Conductor of the Columbia University Orchestra, New York NY, 1997-1998 academic year ;

Other Professional Positions :

• Research Assistant, Computer Music Center of Columbia University, New York NY, 1998 to 2003 ;
  
• Colloquia Assistant, Columbia University, New York NY, 2002-2003 academic year;
  
• Co-Director of the Columbia Composers concert series, New York NY, 1999-2000;
  

Freelance Professional Activities :

• Composer, pianist, and conductor;
  
• Film composer and sound designer;
  
• Sound and Recording Engineer;
  
• Music Copyist (Finale software); Take a look at some of my finale page layouts.
  

Academic and Professional Honors :

Prizes :

• 2012 : FUNARTE Classical Composition Prize 2012, given by the Brazilian Ministry of Culture (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil).
  
• 2010 : FUNARTE Classical Composition Prize 2010, given by the Brazilian Ministry of Culture (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil).
  
• 1995 : Projeto Nascente V Award (First Prize) in the Music Category. This prize is given by the University of São Paulo and Editora Abril, every year in Brazil (São Paulo-SP ).
  
• 1994 : Second prize at the competition “X Concurso Nacional Ritmo e Som” of UNESP (Universidade Estadual Paulista, São Paulo-SP, Brazil).
  

Scholarships and Fellowships :

• 2000 : Residency at the Centro Studi Ligure (the Bogliasco Foundation) in Genoa, Italy, to work on an electroacoustic radio opera.
  
• 1996 : received a seven-year scholarship for graduate studies (Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship) from Columbia University, New York NY.
  

Compositions:

• See complete list.
  

Writings:

• See complete list.
  

Research :

• See complete list.
  

Performances, Concerts and Recitals :

• See complete list.
  

Teaching Interests and Qualifications :

Composition related topics :

• Composition; Instrumentation, Orchestration and Arranging; Music Structure and Form; 20th Century Compositional Techniques; Principles of Acoustics Applied to Orchestration; Microtonality.
  

Music Theory and History topics :

• Music Humanities; Music Appreciation; Fundamentals of Music Theory; Analysis; Harmony and Counterpoint (tonal and atonal, all levels); Set-Theory; Dodecaphonic Techniques; Costère Analysis; Western Classical Music History; Contemporary Music History; History and Theory of Concrete and Electroacoustic Music; Survey of World/Ethnic Musics.
  

Computer Music topics :

• Recording Studio and Digital Audio Techniques; Computer Programming for Artists and Musicians (C, C++, Java, Object Oriented design); Electroacoustic Composition Techniques (basic concepts, structure and form, signal processing, spatialization, orchestration of sound objects); Computer Music tools and software (all major Macintosh, Linux and PC music software and hardware); Digital Signal Processing; Finale music publishing; MIDI applications; Algorithmic Composition; Interactivity between Music, Dance and Image; Human/Machine Interfaces; Live Electronics and Interactive Music Systems; Computer Assisted Composition; Acoustics.
  

Performance and Musicianship related topics :

• Piano lessons (basic to advanced level); Conducting; Ear-Training and Solfege; Contemporary Music Practice.
  

Language abilities:

• Fluent in English and Portuguese;
  
• good reading and speaking ability in French;
  
• reading ability in Spanish and Italian;