Name Vania Leite | Role Musical Artist | |
Vania dantas leite di stances 1982
Vânia Dantas Leite (born 13 August 1945) is a Brazilian pianist, conductor, music educator and composer.
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Life
Vânia Dantas Leite was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and studied composition with Frederico Egger and piano with Zila de M. Brito at the Escola Nacional de Musica. In 1974 she began to study electronic music and purchased equipment from Electronic Music Studio in London. She established a private laboratory in Rio de Janeiro and began to participate in European and American festivals as a composer of electronic music.
In 1981 she took a teaching position at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She also founded and served as director of the Studio for Electroacoustic Music of the Villa-Lobos Institute (SE-FIR).
Honors and awards
Works
Selected works include: