Name Jose Rezende | Role Composer | |
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Died November 21, 2010, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil Albums O som de Almeida Prado, Obras para piano & piano e violino Similar People Camargo Guarnieri, Osvaldo Lacerda, Quaternaglia Guitar Quartet, Ronaldo Miranda, Marlos Nobre | ||
Jose antonio rezende de almeida prado cantiga da amizade
José Antônio Rezende de Almeida Prado or Almeida Prado (February 8, 1943 – November 21, 2010) was an important Brazilian composer of classical music and a pianist. On Almeida Prado's death, his personal friend, conductor João Carlos Martins stated that Prado had possibly been the most important living Brazilian composer.
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- Jose antonio rezende de almeida prado cantiga da amizade
- Training
- Professional Activities
- Selected works
- Publications
- References
Prado wrote over 400 compositions and won various prizes for his work.
He was born in Santos, São Paulo in 1943. He died in São Paulo in 2010, having lived there for the latter part of his life.
Training
In Brazil, Almeida Prado studied with Dinorá de Carvalho (piano), Osvaldo Lacerda (harmony) and Camargo Guarnieri (composition).
Upon winning first prize for his cantata Pequenos Funerais Cantantes, based on a text by Hilda Hilst, at the I Festival de Música da Guanabara in 1969, he continued his studies in Europe. He studied with Olivier Messiaen and Nadia Boulanger in Paris from 1970 to 1973, besides brief studies with György Ligeti and Lukas Foss in Darmstadt.
Professional Activities
Returning to Brazil in 1974, Almeida Prado first taught at the Conservatório Municipal de Cubatão, and then, hired by Zeferino Vaz, he became a professor at the UNICAMP Institute of the Arts, retiring in 2000. After his retirement he settled in São Paulo, where he occasionally taught music courses and presented a radio program at Cultura FM.
In January 2007, his cantata Hiléia, Um Mural da Amazônia, based on the poem of the same name by Ives Gandra Martins, was performed at Carnegie Hall by the Orquestra Bachiana Filarmônica de São Paulo conducted by João Carlos Martins.