Egberto gismonti biography of michaels

Egberto Gismonti, a Brazilian composer, guitarist, and pianist, was born December 5, , in Carmo, Rio de Janeiro, into a family that included many professional musicians, including a grandfather and an uncle who were both band directors.

He enrolled for his first music lessons in the musical conservatory of Nova Friburgo in the state of Rio de Janeiro at age five. After fifteen years of study with Jacques Klein and Aurelio Silveira, he was awarded a grant for study in Vienna.

An arrangement of one of his compositions, O Sonho, written for an orchestra of one hundred performers, was performed in Rio in Shortly thereafter he went to France, where he continued his musical studies with Nadia Boulanger and Jean Barraqué, who had been a student of Anton Webern.

He also worked as a professional accompanist.

Gismonti then moved beyond his conservatory roots to employ electronic instruments and a wide variety of percussion instruments, as well as to incorporate elem