Glaucia Castilhos
Glaucia Castilhos is a musician of the Espírito Santo State Military Police, and has a Bachelor of Music degree from the Espírito Santo State Music University (FAMES). She has a Master’s Programme at Federal State University of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), in the area of Teaching Musical Practices (PROEMUS), and she has a graduate certificate in Art Education from Afonso Cláudio Superior Institute (CESAP). As a harpist, she has worked in various orchestras: Espírito Santo Philharmonic Orchestra, Poços de Caldas Festival Orchestra, FAMES Symphonic Band, SESI- Espírito Santo Camerata Orchestra, Espírito Santo State Military Police Band, and has been the solo harpist of the FAMES Symphonic Orchestra. She has taught at various institutions in Brazil and abroad, including Espírito Santo Music University (FAMES), the PMES Junior Band Social Cultural Project, Espírito Santo Federal University (UFES), Javeriana University – Bogotá/ Columbia and Universidad Nacional de Las Artes- Argentina. She was a finalist at the Arpa Tierra 47 competition in Madrid/ Spain, with an improvisation on the theme of Iberian-American origin in 2017. Representative of “Nueva Esculea Argentina de Arpa”, in Brazil. Author of the book “Vamos Tocar Harpa”, released in Brazil in 2020.
Ernesto Júlio de Nazareth
Ernesto Júlio de Nazareth was born in the city of Rio de Janeiro, on the 20th of March, 1863. As a child he started studying the piano with his mother, an excellent pianist. When Ernesto Nazareth came on the scene at the end of the 1870’s, there was still no “genuinely Brazilian” music to speak of, rather music “Made in Brazil”. It was he who put down on paper the melodic form, who set out the harmonies with those rhythmic cells that would become representative of a national music. The melodic and rhythmic formula of Choro and the Seresta Carioca, the improvisational slang of the Maxixe, all of this was captured, refined, filtered, transfigured and condensed by Ernesto Nazareth in his work. The composer left a great variety of musical genre for posterity; “Tangos”, Waltzes, Polkas and Anthems, Sambas, Marches, Square-dances, “Schottisches”, Fox-trots, Romances, among others.
Chiquinha Gonzaga
The composer and maestra from Rio de Janeiro, Chiquinha Gonzaga stands out in the history of Brazilian culture and for her pioneering work in the fight for the country’s freedom. The courage with which she took on the oppressive patriarchal society and created a profession never before undertaken by a woman caused a scandal in her time. Acting in the rich musical environment of Rio de Janeiro in the Segundo Reinado (the Second Reign of the Empire of Brazil), in which Polkas, Tangos and Waltzes reigned supreme, Chiquinha Gonzaga didn’t flinch from including a great diversity of music in her piano music, without prejudice. It was for this reason that she ended up producing a fundamental body of work in the formation of Brazilian music.
