Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Vivana Anderson

Viana is a creative composer of film music, he has written well over 260 pieces. He was born in 1962 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil and came from a musical family. His father Sebastiao Vianna was the reviser of and assistant to well known composer, Villa-Lobos. Viana worked as a composer-conducter and a cultural producer. He taught comparative music at the Palacio das Artes and film music at the Escola Livre de Cinema. His works include solo instruments, chamber music, orchestral works, vocal and electronic music as well as opera, also jazz and film music.


Viana’s earliest pieces were religious in nature and were done at the ages of twelve and thirteen. He learned to play the guitar, flute and most favorably the piccolo under the tutorial of his father. The art of music was an active part in the day to day life of his family, and many musical debates with his father were held at dinnertime. Viana’s father served as an inspiration to his musical career, owing to his support. In 1998 his right hand was seriously injured in a car accident, hitherto Viana practiced his music activities on the computer. The Cd Symphony 2 was created with the use of only his lift hand.


Viana received numerous awards including 1st prize at the prestigious “ 1er Concours de Composition Musicale pour Orchestre d’Harmonie” in Comines Belgium. He is currently a professor at Palacio das Artes and Escola Livre de Cinema in Brazil and is pursuing his Doctoral Degree in Music Composition at the Federal University of Bahia. He has also released his first book “Tales for Cinema”, in 2005. Among his many awards Viana received the Scholarship Award, at the Berklee College of Music, Boston, USA.




References
http://www.classicalcomposersdatabase. Retrieved October 16 2009.

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