Cacilda Borges-Barbosa

Cacilda Borges-Barbosa was born in 1914 in Brazil. She graduated from the National School of Music of Brazil. She is a composer, conductor, and pianist. She composed a number of works, many with a strong Brazilian theme. She also composed a number of pieces of orchestral music and chamber music together with pieces for teaching piano students.

At the age of 14 she joined the National Institute of Music where she studied harmony, counterpoint and fugue, composition, and piano. She began her artistic career as a dance pianist playing waltzes and chorinhos.

In the 1950s she was conductor of the orchestra of Radio Center Drive. She worked with Villa-Lobos at the Department of Music Education Arts where she organized and directed a children’s orchestra. She served as head of musical education of the Education Department. She was professor for chamber ensemble of the National School of music, University of Brazil, the director of the Instituto Villa-Lobos, and professor of counterpoint and fugue at the Popular School of Music Education. She directed several choir ensembles and orchestras. She was one of the pioneers of electronic music in Brazil.

Reference

Wikipedia (2009). Cacilda Borges-Barbosa. Retrieved October 11, 2009 from

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Dicionario Cravo Albin de Musica Popular Brasileira (2002). Cacilda Borges Barbosa. Retrieved

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Oxford Music Online (2009). Barbosa, Cacilda Campos Borges. Grove Music Online. Retrieved

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Discography

Estudios Brasileiros

Little Entrance Music

Trio for Reeds