Career
In 1993 he received two commissions from the British Council when he had the opportunity to work with The Nash Ensemble and The Smith Quartet. In 1994 two works are performed by Ensemble Contrechamps. Among those ensembles that played his pieces are the Brazilian Grupo Novo Horizonte, Duo Diálogos, Camerata Aberta, Orquestra Municipal de São Paulo, Coral do Estado de São Paulo.
In 1977 he entered the composition course at the University of São Paulo (United States Pharmacopoeia), where he studied with Gilberto Mendes and Willy Corrêa de Oliveira.
After his university studies he followed composition courses with Brian Ferneyhough and James Dillon (1994 at Royaumont Abbey, France), and Gerard Grisey and Jonathan Harvey (at the IRCAM"s "Académie d"été" in 1998). In he concluded his doctorate in Music Semiotics at the Pontifical Catholic University of South. Paulo (Pacific Union College-SP) with a thesis about the concept of difference and repetition in music according to Gilles Deleuze philosophic thought.
In 2006 he passed his habilitation (“Livre Docência”) at the University of Campinas (State University of Campinas) with a thesis on compositional techniques. Currently, he is professor of composition at United States Pharmacopoeia, and researcher at São Paulo Research Foundation (Fundação de Amparo a Ciência de SPaulo) and Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa (Brazilian National Council for Research).
