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Before software, I was a conductor.

I trained in orchestral and choral conducting at the University of São Paulo, worked with its chamber orchestra and choral laboratory, conducted choirs, and edited music for publication. That background shapes the music software I build today.

Positions

Conductor

FEA-USP Choir · 2018–2022

Kept the choir rehearsing online during the pandemic, with weekly vocal warm-up videos.

Content manager (scholarship holder)

Comunicantus: ECA-USP Choral Laboratory · 2019–2020

Produced content, social media and the website of the Comunicantus Chamber Choir teaching project. Shared conducting and vocal preparation of the USP Senior Citizens’ Choir with the student team.

Singer, Madrigal Comunicantus (basses)

Comunicantus: ECA-USP Choral Laboratory · 2017–2019

Choral teaching, research and performance laboratory of the Music Department of ECA-USP.

Teaching assistant and conducting intern

Comunicantus: ECA-USP Choral Laboratory · 2009–2014

Conducted student and community choirs at the Comunicantus Festivals of 2010 and 2014. Engraved the scores of the Cadernos de Repertório Coral Comunicantus.

Assistant conductor

USP Chamber Orchestra (OCAM) · 2016–2018

Conducted the orchestra at the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, the Auditório Ibirapuera and the Instituto Tomie Ohtake. Worked on programming, press relations and programme notes.

Archivist

USP Chamber Orchestra (OCAM) · 2015–2016

Chamber orchestra of the School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo, directed by Gil Jardim.

Brass teacher and conductor

Projeto Guri · 2006–2009

Music education programme of the State of São Paulo for children and teenagers.

Concerts and events

USP Chamber Orchestra returns to the stage

September 24, 2016 · Instituto Tomie Ohtake · Auditório Ibirapuera, São Paulo

Shared the podium with Gil Jardim and conducted Alexandre Lunsqui’s Carretéis II.

Comunicantus Festival 2014

December 4, 2014 · Mosteiro de São Bento, São Paulo

Conducted the community choirs, sang in the Comunicantus University Choir and engraved the scores.

Comunicantus Festival 2010

December 2, 2010 · MASP, São Paulo

Conducted Brahms’ “Am Gesteine rauscht die Flut” (Op. 52) with the choral conducting class, conducted his own adaptation of “O canoeiro de Itapecuru” and Vives’ “Coro de los románticos” with the Comunicantus school choir, and arranged Noel Rosa’s “Conversa de Botequim” for the women’s choir studio.

Recordings

Editions

Academic work

Press

O Coral da FEA também não parou

FEA-USP · Jun 2020

How the choir kept rehearsing online during the pandemic, with Virtual Choir and weekly warm-up videos.