international festival for contemporary music and new practices
Belo Horizonte / Brazil
from the 13th to the 21st of JULY
ARTISTS 2024
Gabriel Araújo - Electroacoustic
Maldonado, João Pedro Oliveira, Panayiotis Kokoras, Rodrigo Lima, Yan Robinn, among others. His music was played by groups as Line Upon Line, Atelier XX-21, and the Orchestra of the National Opera of Lyon. He received the Funarte prize in composition at the Biennial of Contemporary Brazilian Music.
Gabriel also works in the production of new music, being one of the founders of the Música Íntima concert series in the city of Goiânia, whose productions since 2014 include the festival Goiânia Música Hoje, more than 20 concerts with local musicians and with groups such as Proxima Centauri (France), duo DOM, Quarteto Brasília Sax, and Ensemble Synthesis (Portugal), and also the release of two albums.
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Interested in the possible dialogues between popular and concert music, Gabriel works on questions of intertextuality and metaphors as creative forces through instrumental and electronic means.
He studied composition with Paulo Guicheney at the Universidade Federal de Goiás, and obtained a master's degree from the CNSMD de Lyon, where he studied with Michele Tadini and attended the classes of Martin Matalon and François Roux. He is currently a DMA candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, under the guidance of Januibe Tejera. His works had been mentored by composers such as Bryan Holmes, David Bird, Javier Torres