Lina Vecchio

Background

Lina Pires de Campos was born in São Paulo Paulo, Brazil, the daughter of Italian luthier Angelo Delegate Vecchio.

Education

She studied piano with Ema Lubrano Franco and Léo Peracchi and music theory and composition with Furio Franceschini, Caldeira Filho and Osvaldo Lacerda.

Career

Later she studied composition with Camargo Guarnieri. Pires de Campos worked as assistant to Magda Tagliaferro and in 1964 founded her own piano school.

Achievements

• She won awards as a composer including in 1961 the Roquete Pinto medal and the second place composition prize from Radio Mec.