Vânia Dantas Leite
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Vânia Dantas Leite is a Brazilian pianist, conductor, music educator and composer.
, 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).
Life
Vânia Dantas Leite was born in Rio de JaneiroRio de Janeiro
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, Brazil
Brazil
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, 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
London
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. 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
- 1972-1st place National Composition Contest
- 1973-3rd place International Conducting Competition
- 1996-Rio de Janeiro RJ - Award Scholarship Program
Works
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- Jur-A-Amo?
- Caleidocosmos
- Canto de Orfeo
- Cycles
- Di-stances?
- Fantasy of Brazil - Eguns?
- Fantasy of Brazil - Osanyin?
- Karisma
- L'Indien et l'Owino
- Orpheus Forest
- Spectral Landscapes
- Palavrasons
- Piano Memory
- Sforzato / Piano
- I want you Green
- Vita Vitae
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- ((Y))
- Harmony of Spaces