Composers

Composer-conductor, arranger, music producer and professor. He was born in Belo Horizonte city-Brazil and has studied in courses and seminars about music in several official institutions with: Ennio Morricone,Luca Salvadori,Radamés Gnatalli, Max Rostal, Oilliam Lanna, S.Vianna, Manuel Veiga, Paulo Lima (Accademia Chigiana di Siena, Reale Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna, Arts Academy of Rome, Royal College of Music - Stockholm, UFMG, UFBA), among others. 253 works composed and five CD’s recorded, two of it recorded in Europe. Nineteen national and international awards received, including the 1st prize at prestigious “1er Concours de Composition Musicale pour Orchestre d’Harmonie” in Comines - Belgium and other two prizes at “Lambersart-France 2006″. He has also composing, conducting and producing music for the following films: The Fortuneteller, 3:00:AM, Burning Hearts, The Adam Children, The Next Step, Gun’s Speech, Lost in Abbey Road, Vivalma, Manuelzão e Bananeira, Ofélia, Playing for Tomorrow, Ghost Train, The Man of Head of Paper, Minas Portuguesa, Near Evil and Condenados. Andersen is a professor at Palácio das Artes and Escola Livre de Cinema in Belo Horizonte - Brazil, pursuing his Doctoral Degree in Music Composition at Federal University of Bahia. He has printed his first book of tales for cinema.

Popular virtuoso violinist, Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was born in Venice on March 4, 1678. He was also a well known priest and Baroque music composer. Vivaldi was lovingly known as ‘The Red Priest’. His most famous work is The Four Seasons. It is a grand collection of four violen concertros and a very well-known Baroque music piece. Vivaldi was instated as Maestro di Cappella of the court of prince Phillip in 1717 or 1718. Staying there over the period of three years he produced a couple of operas. Tito Manlio is one such opera produced at that time. He presented a facinating pastoral drama La Silvia in Milan in 1721. Afterwards, an oratorio L’adorazione delli tre re magi al bambino Gesù was presented in 1722. He produced four operas upon coming back to Venice in 1725. He came up with Four seasons at the same time. It consisted of four violin concertos portraying scenes of nature in music. The first concerto, “Spring” was created under the inspiration of Sinfonia in the first act of his opera “I1 Giustino” and the others were the result of original ideas. The countryside area near Mantua is possibly considered to be the inspiration behind these amazing works of art.