Eduardo Monteiro


	Eduardo Monteiro is a pianist, a professor of the Music Department at USP’s School of Communications and Arts (ECA), and deputy director of the school. Considered one of the exponents of the Brazilian piano scene, he also has a prominent role in the education of the country’s pianists. He is an advisor to ECA’s graduate students in the areas of pianistic interpretation and Brazilian music. His students have won numerous awards in competitions in Brazil and abroad, including a 1^st place in the 25^th Clara Haskil International Piano Competition (Switzerland) in 2013. Monteiro had his talent internationally recognized from an early age. In 1989, he was unanimously awarded the 1^st place in the International Piano Competition in Cologne (Germany), where he was named the best interpreter of Beethoven. He has also won awards in competitions in Dublin (Ireland), in 1991, and Santander (Spain), in 1992. He was a soloist with the leading orchestras in Brazil and of renowned orchestras abroad, including the Philharmonics of St. Petersburg, Moscow, Munich and Bremen, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Novosibirsk Symphony and the Orquestra Sinfónica de Radio Televisión Española. He has played with the main Brazilian conductors and with music directors Yuri Temirkanov, Mariss Jansons, Dimitri Kitayenko, Philippe Entremont and Arnold Katz. One of the main features of his comprehensive repertoire is a refined criterion of choice, displaying a special interest in Brazilian music, of which he is a masterful interpreter. His discography includes an exquisite CD, Piano music of Brazil, which received glowing reviews in prestigious specialized international magazines.

Eduardo Monteiro is a pianist, a professor of the Music Department at USP’s School of Communications and Arts (ECA), and deputy director of the school. Considered one of the exponents of the Brazilian piano scene, he also has a prominent role in the education of the country’s pianists. He is an advisor to ECA’s graduate students in the areas of pianistic interpretation and Brazilian music. His students have won numerous awards in competitions in Brazil and abroad, including a 1^st place in the 25^th Clara Haskil International Piano Competition (Switzerland) in 2013. Monteiro had his talent internationally recognized from an early age. In 1989, he was unanimously awarded the 1^st place in the International Piano Competition in Cologne (Germany), where he was named the best interpreter of Beethoven. He has also won awards in competitions in Dublin (Ireland), in 1991, and Santander (Spain), in 1992. He was a soloist with the leading orchestras in Brazil and of renowned orchestras abroad, including the Philharmonics of St. Petersburg, Moscow, Munich and Bremen, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Novosibirsk Symphony and the Orquestra Sinfónica de Radio Televisión Española. He has played with the main Brazilian conductors and with music directors Yuri Temirkanov, Mariss Jansons, Dimitri Kitayenko, Philippe Entremont and Arnold Katz. One of the main features of his comprehensive repertoire is a refined criterion of choice, displaying a special interest in Brazilian music, of which he is a masterful interpreter. His discography includes an exquisite CD, Piano music of Brazil, which received glowing reviews in prestigious specialized international magazines.

Performance:
Alexandre Levy’s piano works, of unquestionable quality, remain mostly unknown to musicians and to the general public. This brief recital is part of the project “The Piano Works of Alexander Levy (1864-1892): Concerts and CD Recordings,” which aims to help make this São Paulo-born composer more well-known – the sesquicentennial of his birth was celebrated in 2014 – through studies, concerts and recordings of this repertoire. The compositions are performed by graduate and undergraduate students from the Piano Laboratory of USP’s School of Communication and Arts.