Background
Kilza Setti was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Kilza Setti was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Setti graduated from the University of São Paulo in 1982 with a doctorate degree in social anthropology.
She studied the music of the European-and Indian-born fishermen on the southeastern coast of Brazil and the ritual music of the Guarani-Mbyá and Timbira Indians of Central Brazil, and founded the Brazilian Association of Folklore. She is a visiting professor at the Federal University of Bahia and other universities.
In 1953 she graduated from the Conservatorio Dramatico y Musical of Sao Paulo where she studied composition with Camargo Guarnieri, and won scholarships for study in composition and research in ethnomusic at the Instituto Di Tella in Buenos Aires She also earned a scholarship to the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal, where she studied under anthropologist Michel Giacometti and composer Fernando Lopes Graça. Setti received awards for her compositions, including first prize in the composition competitions.
