Valdemar Henrique Costa PEREIRA

Background

PEREIRA, Valdemar Henrique Costa was born on February 15, 1909 in Belem, Pará, Brazil.

Education

Educated in science, letters and music, Portugal, Belem and Rio de Janeiro.

Career

Director, division of theater, cinema and artistic culture, state department, of press and propaganda. Artistic director, station PRC-5, Radio Clube do Pará. President, Orquestra Sinfónica Paraense.

Director, state library of phonograph records. Producer of folklore programs on Radio 1 upi, Rio de Janeiro, 1935-1937. Collaborator on programs Hora do Brasil of Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, 1941.

Membership

Member: Associagáo dos Artistas Brasileiros, Society Brasileira de Autores Teatrais. Composer of many pieces for voice and piano based on folk music of the Amazon Indians, Afro-Brazilians, and backwoods mestizos.

Connections

Father:

Thiago Joaquim Pereira

Mother:

Joana Costa