ABOUT EDSON
EDSON ZAMPRONHA (Rio de Janeiro) has received two outstanding awards from the São Paulo Association of Art Criticism (Brazil) and won the 6th Sergio Motta Award (Brazil) for the sound installation Poetic Attractor, created with the SCIArts Group. In 2017, the IV Brazilian Festival of Contemporary Music honored him for his entire career.
His works offer a super expressivity in the scene of advanced classical music: a new perspective that opens original paths for music experience and sound exploration, linked with an appealing communication with the audience.
He has received commissions from various groups and institutions, including the Museum for the Applied Arts in Cologne (Germany), the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra Foundation – OSESP (Brazil), the Mexican Center for Music and Sound Arts – CMMAS, and the XXI Biennial of Brazilian Contemporary Music – FUNARTE.
Renowned concert venues have programmed his works, including the Auditorio 400 at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, Spain, the CBSO Centre in Birmingham, England, and the Sala São Paulo in Brazil.
His compositions are featured in four albums dedicated entirely to his music (Sonora, Sensibile, Modelagens, and S’io Esca Vivo), as well as in twenty additional albums released by various record labels. His catalog includes over 100 works for orchestra, symphonic band, opera, choir, ballet, theater, sound installation, electroacoustic music, sound art, chamber music, performance, and film.
He authored the book Notation, Representation and Composition – a new paradigm in musical writing (in Portuguese) and he has edited five books on music. He has published more than 30 papers.
He is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Oviedo, with a Ph.D. in Communication and Semiotics – Arts from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. He has been an invited composer at the University of Birmingham (England), the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), Studio Phonos (Barcelona), and conducted postdoctorate research at the University of Helsinki (Finland) and University of Valladolid (Spain).
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