Guilherme Carvalho | en

Guilherme Carvalho, born in 1974, is a Brazilian composer and a researcher in music. In Brasília, he studied the cello with Ataíde de Mattos, and composition with Jorge Antunes. Living in Paris since 2000, he has completed a doctorate at Université de Paris VIII, under the direction of Horacio Vaggione, and has also studied composition with José Manuel López López, Jacopo Baboni Schilingi and Hans Tutschku. In October 2002, his doctoral research was rewarded with the Aguirre-Basualdo scholarship, of the Chancellerie des Universités de Paris; he is the first musician to have received this award.

He is presently a teacher at the Department of Music of the Université de Paris VIII, a member of group La Pluma de Hu, dedicated to instrumental and musical research, and of PRISMA (International Research and Pedagogy on Assisted Musical Systems).
His music has been played and rewarded in France, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, Chile, Canada, Italy, Belgium, the United States and England, and he has worked with interpreters such as Iván Solano (Spain/France), Bruno Procópio (Brazil/France), Lorraine Vaillancourt and the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (Canada), David Nuñez (Chile/Belgium), Geneviève Déraspe (Canada), Esteban Algora (Spain), Derek Johnson and BASILICA (USA).

Guilherme Carvalho is also a mathematician: he completed in 1998 a master’s degree in Analysis / Partial Differential Equations at Universidade de Brasília, under the direction of Liliane Maia. His background as a mathematician has not abandoned him in his musical career: his thesis at Paris VIII is titled 'Musical Representations of Mathematical Ideas' and his works are this theoretical research put to practice.
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