Ligia Amadio

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name = Ligia Amadio

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nationality =Brazilian [http://www.hartwickmusicfestival.org/faculty.html Hartwick College Summer Music Festival] ]
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known_for = Chief conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra, Rio de Janeiro
education = Pianist, Dramatic and Musical Conservatory of São Paulo [http://www.ligiaamadio.com/arquivos/ligiaamadio/portugues/index.html Official Site] ]
Bachelor of Conducting and Master Degree in Arts, State University of Campinas.
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occupation = Chief conductor
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Ligia Amadio is a Brazilian conductor.

Biography

tudies

Ligia Amadio began studying music at the age of five on the piano, eventually completing her diploma at the Dramatic and Musical Conservatory of São Paulo as a pianist. A few years later, however, Amadio received her Bachelor of Conducting as well as a Master Degree in Arts from the State University of Campinas. Her most important conducting teachers in Brazil and abroad were :
* Eleazar de Carvalho
* Henrique Gregori
* Hans-Joachim Koellreutter
* Ferdinand Leitner
* Kurt Masur
* Julius Kalmar
* Dominique Rouits
* Georg Tintner
* Alexander Polishuk
* Eugeni Yergemsky
* Guillermo Scarabino
* Edward Downes

Musical career

She began to conduct internationally in 1992. At one time, she was the assistant conductor at National Theater Symphony Orchestra, Brasília. In 1996 the musicians of National Symphony Orchestra, Rio de Janeiro elected her as the chief conductor, and she remains in this position to this day. In 1997 she won the Tokyo International Music Competition for Conducting, and was the first woman to do so in the last thirty years. The following year, in March, she won the first prize at the II Latin-American Competition for Conducting in Santiago, Chile. That year she and the National Symphony Orchestra, Rio de Janeiro recorded a CD with compositions of Heitor Villa-Lobos. In 1999 she conducted the Slovene RTV Symphony Orchestra recording Rachmaninov. In October 2000 she was elected by the orchestra's musicians, chief conductor of Cuyo National University's Symphony Orchestra, Mendoza, Argentina. She gave up this post in December 2003. In 2001, she received the prize "Best Conductor of the Year", awarded by APCA (São Paulo Association of Critics of Art). Between 2000 and 2003 Amadio produced and presented the broadcast "Music and Literature" at Ministry of Culture's Radio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Sources

* [http://www.ligiaamadio Personal Site]
* [http://www.hartwicksummermusicfestival.org Summer Music Festival]