Ponteio's biography of José Antonio de Almeida Prado

PRADO, José Antonio de Almeida

Born in Santos in 1943, he studied the piano with Dinorah de Carvalho, and theory and composition with Osvaldo Lacerda and Camargo Guarnieri. In 1967, he won a scholarship to study at Santiago de Compostela with Clemente Terni. Two years later he went to Darmstadt, where he studied with Gyorgy Ligeti and Lukas Foss, continuing his studies in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen. Back in Brazil, after directing the Conservatório de Cubatão, he was appointed in 1975 as a professor of composition at the Arts Institute of the Universidade de Campinas (UNICAMP), São Paulo, a position that he still holds. He directed the Institute from 1982 to 1987. In 1986, he obtained a doctoral degree from the same institution. From 1993 to 1995, Almeida Prado was awarded the Max Feffer Prize, and awards by the Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte (APCA) and the Fundação Nacional de Arte (FUNARTE). His works have been performed throughout Brazil, Europe, Israel and the United States, and he has received numerous commissions and several international awards. He is a member of the Fondation Internationale Nadia et Lili Boulanger (Paris), the Associação Cultural Brasil-Israel (São Paulo), the Academia Brasileira de Música (Rio de Janeiro), and the Academia de Artes e Ciências (Campinas).

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