Alfredo
Votta
Brazil,
1980
Composer
and pianist
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Composer
and pianist, born in Botucatu, Brazil, in 1980.
His works have been played in Brazil, Chile, Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia by himself and pianists like Chilean Paulette Schwarz and New Zealander Ross Carey.
He
studied Composition at Campinas State University
under the
guidance of Denise Garcia, José Augusto Mannis,
Alexandre
Pascoal and Sílvio Ferraz.
He pursues now a Master
degree
studying the work of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt.
Most of his works are written for his instrument, the
piano.
They're intimately linked to his playing.
Not hard to
play, they seek to explore the piano's sonorities
mixing atonality
and modality.
Some of his works privilege one of these worlds.
Atmosphere is meditative, comtemplative, mysterious.
Among
his influences are the works of Claude Debussy,
Arvo Pärt,
Olivier Messiaen, Morton Feldman and Anton von Webern.
He's also
influenced by Gregorian chant,
other liturgical chants and
minimalism and postminimalism.
He also enjoys writing sacred
music in traditional language
as well as folksongs from his
imaginary country, the Empire of Svolonesia.
A
Catholic himself, he composes for and plays at Catholic
Liturgy.
Having started to have piano lessons with his mother
at age 8,
he soon began his composition attempts.
At the age of
10 he got to meet Brazilian composer Mikhail Malt, with whom he had
classes for some months, in a remarkable experience.
He has
for years played in several venues playing his own music
as well
as the music of his colleagues, both as soloist and in chamber music
works.
He now plays with flutist Cláudia Guedes as
well as with local choirs Madrigal Cantabilis and Madrigal Incantus,
with concerts in several towns of the state.
I'm
in Jundiaí
- SP, Brazil
updated
in June 2009