| Cláudio Ribeiro is one of the most
outstanding Brazilian artists. His international career as conductor has
been taking him to several parts of the world. He studied in Brazil and
then in Europe with Michel Tabachnik and Guennadi Rozhdestvensky. During
this period, he also studied Opera and worked with great stars from the
lyrical world. He has artistic registers in audio and video at RAI (Milan),
Bavarian Radio (Munich), United States and Brazilian broadcasting, and has
recorded many CDs, passing through a repertoire that goes from Renascence
to the Contemporary Music. In 1980, he created and and was Artistic Director
of the Rio Grande Do Sul Chamber Orchestra (Brazil). In 1981, he has elected
Revelation Artist by the news agency of notice Musical Art of Rio
De Janeiro. In 1983, he won the Second National Competition for Young Conductors
(Brazil). After that, in Europe, he took place in opera productions in several
theatres. Since then, he started an ascending career. He has been conducting
important orchestras in many countries, side by side with sacred names of
the musical world. Both in the orchestral or lyrical repertoire he has been
receiving warm reception from public and critics. Under his baton have been
playing names such as Micha Maisky, Ingrid Hables, Hagai Shaham, Nelson
Freira, Katia Ricciarelli, Renato Bruson, Lucio Gallo, Raina Kabaiwanska,
Pedro Burmester, Montserrat Caballé and many others. He is engaged
to reveal Brazilian Music, and has been doing innoumerous first performances.
Important composers dedicated works to Claudio Ribeiro. He is often invited
for juries of National and International competitions. For his artistic
trajectory he has been recognized with awards for merit and musical prizes.
From 1993 to 2000 he was Associate Maestro of Blumenau Chamber Orchestra
(Brazil), with whom he recorded six CDs. From 1995 to 1998 he was the Artistic
DIrector and Principal Conductor of Porto Alegre Symphony Orchestra
(Brazil), with whom he recorded two praised CDs. His name is in Brazilian
Yearbook of Musicians and in the Brazilian Contemporary Music Guide. Claudio
Ribeiro is also composer, lecturer and musical writer. Recently his works
were published by Goldberg Editions. in 1999 he created a pioneer project
of a Music Assemblage that intends to insert a new social and cultural view
to the Music in Brazil. |