Product Description
Part of a series of fantasies for solo instrument, this lyrical monologue for oboe is in a modernist style:
Born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, he 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 in courses and seminars about music and
film in several official institutions with Ennio Morricone, Ettore
Scolla, Giussepe Tornatore, E. Polizzi, Radamés Gnatalli, Max Rostal,
Oilliam Lanna, S. Vianna (Accademia Chigiana di Siena, Reale Accademia
Filarmonica di Bologna, Arts Academy of Rome, Royal University College
of Music Stockholm, UFMG, UFBA), among others. He currently works as a
composer-conductor and cultural producer, as well as a professor at the
Clóvis Salgado Foundation, Palácio das Artes, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil,
in addition to offering lectures and workshops in various institutions
both in Brazil and abroad. His first teacher wa 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 25 awards in Argentina, Brazil, Europe and the
USA, including the "Prix de Composition" at the "First Composition
Competition Festin Choral 2013" in the city of Billère (France), first
prize at the Susanville Symphony Composition Competition 2012 (USA),
first prize in the international composition contest of "Lys Music
Orchestra 2001" in Belgium, first prize and the audience prize in the
"Lambersart 2006 International Contest of Composition" in France. To
date, he has composed 315 musical pieces for voices, chamber, symphonic
as well as electronic instruments.
Viana has also composed film scores for the following films: A
Cartomante, Retalhos do Taquaril, Bem Próximo do Mal (Next Evil),
Jogando para o Amanhã, O Próximo Passo, Guns Speech, Trem Fantasma,
3:00:AM, Corações Ardentes, Filhos de Adão, Perdidos em Abbey Road,
Vivalma, Manuelzão e Bananeira, Ofélia, Opostos, Minas Portuguesa, O
Homem da Cabeça de Papelão, Convict, Ser Humano (Human Being), Um Dia
Qualquer, Nego, Reenactment, Desafios and Oswaldo França Júnior.
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