FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009
Contact: Jaye Ike,  College of Fine Arts, 304-696-3296
 

Brazilian guest artists to give concert Friday

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Two guitarists from Brazil will give a program featuring music from Latin America at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23 in Smith Recital Hall on the Marshall University Huntington campus. The concert is free and open to the public.

Dr. Eduardo Meirinhos and André de Moura are visiting Marshall as part of the MAGNETS Project, a consortium of two American and two Brazilian universities (Marshall, Morehead State, Universidade Federal de Goiás and Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina) that includes an exchange program of students and faculty.

Meirinhos is the director of the School of Music of the Universidade Federal de Goiás (Federal University of Goiás), Brazil where he teaches guitar, guitar literature and chamber music. He holds a Doctor of Music degree from Florida State University, a master’s degree in musicology from Universidade de São Paulo (University of São Paulo) and a degree in music performance from the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover in Germany. He has performed extensively in South America, Germany and the United States, participating in music festivals as both teacher and performer. Among these festivals were the Festival de Musica de Londrina, Festival de Inverno de Campos do Jordão, Seminario de Musica de Montenegro, Curso de Verão de Brasília and the Festival de Vale Vêneto.

De Moura has been an assistant professor at the Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (Santa Catarina State University) since 2004, where he teaches classical guitar, guitar literature, guitar pedagogy and chamber music.  He holds both a Master of Music degree in guitar performance from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Music degree in guitar performance from the  Universidade Estadual de Campinas (University of Campinas).

He frequently performs as a member of Camerata de Violões UDESC (UDESC Guitar Ensemble) and is the music coordinator of the Quarteto de Violões UDESC (UDESC Guitar Quartet), a group devoted to playing a wide scope of music styles and genres, in which he also serves as an arranger.

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