Alfredo Votta
Brazil, 1980
Composer and pianist
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E-mail - alvotta at gmail dot com
Composer and pianist, born in Botucatu,
Brazil, in 1980.
His works have been played in Brazil,
Chile, USA, 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 has a Master degree in Composition from the same University.
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 May 2010