PAULO BRASIL
Curriculum vitae
Paulo Brasil was born on March 10, 1976 in Santo Amaro, Bahia, Brazil. His musical
education began at the age of six, when he had his first piano lessons with his mother
and Dr. Helena Coppens in Salvador.From 1983 to 1991 he studied with Ryoko Veiga
at the School of Music at the Federal University of Bahia and from 1992 to 1993 with
Miriam Ramos at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. A scholarship enabled
Paulo Brasil to continue his studies with Prof. Natalia Troull at the Tchaikovsky
Conservatory in Moscow. In 1998 he became a student of Prof. Igo Koch at the
Conservatory of Music of the City of Vienna from where he graduated in 2002.
His first solo recital, given at the age of 10 years, took place at the Concert Hall of the
University of Bahia on November 10, 1986. Four days later he had his debut with
Joseph Haydn’s Piano Concerto in D major with the Symphony Orchestra of the
University of Bahia.
In 1991 he was invited to perform the Piano Concerto No. 3 by Ludwig van Beethoven
with the same orchestra on the occasion of the Opening of the Concert Season.
In 1992, after winning the piano competition for soloists Paulo Brasil was invited to
perform the Piano Concerto No.1 by Franz Liszt together with the UFRJ Symphony
Orchestra on the 144th anniversary of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. In
2005 he won the Third Prize in the "Spanish Composers Piano Competition", in Las
Rozas (Madrid) and in 2007, the First Prize in the "Antón García Abril Piano
Competition"
As a soloist and as a chamber music player he has performed in various cities in his
home country Brazil, in Russia, USA, Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Mexico and has
played and recorded for the National Television in several concert halls in Spain.
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