Background
Vânia Dantas Leite was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and studied composition with Frederico Egger and piano with Zila de M. Brito at the Escola Nacional de Musica.
Vânia Dantas Leite was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and studied composition with Frederico Egger and piano with Zila de M. Brito at the Escola Nacional de Musica.
In 1974 she began to study electronic music and purchased equipment from Electronic Music Studio in London. She established a private laboratory in Rio de Janeiro and began to participate in European and American festivals as a composer of electronic music In 1981 she took a teaching position at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
She also founded and served as director of the Studio for Electroacoustic Music of the Villa-Lobos Institute (Southeast-FIR).
1972-1971st place National Composition Contest.