Rios was born on April 12th 1985 in Salvador Brazil. Rios is a composer, hornist and drummer. As a composer his works include pieces for solo, chamber groups and orchestra, as well as music for theater plays and rock bands.
Rios currently is extending his musical studies in composition at the Music School of Federal University of Bahia. He has also studied since 2003, ethnomusicology, counterpoint, form and harmony, with teachers such as Antonio Burgos and Angela Luhning. Rios also a researcher has been influenced by the work of Paulo Costa Lima “ The Promotion of Cultural Dialogues in the Grupo de Compositores da Bahia’s production of contemporary music”.
He has, since 2006 been involved with teaching Elemantary Musical Theory at the Federal University of Bahia.
His compositions include pieces for solo, chamber groups, orchestra as well as vocal combinations. It also includes music for theater plays and arrangements for orchestra of Brazilian Afro Popular songs. His compositions has won him awards such as the “Ernst Widmer”, “graduation chamber music prize” and ‘symphonic music prize”.
Rios is a founding member of the composer’s group of contemporary music called OCA. This group advances the sublimity of the human state via the musical avenues, namely recording, creating. It also focuses on educational programs in music with an emphasis in composing.
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