Jeferson Ulbrich, piano

Live recording on Nov.7th, 2023, at Capela Santa Maria, Curitiba, Brazil.

Sonata IV (2023)

Harry Crowl was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, on October 6th, 1958. His first music studies took place in his native town. Later on in the US, he took composition lessons with Charles Jones, both privately and at the Juilliard School of Music. Further composition studies took place under Peter Sculthorpe in Dartington, UK. His music draws on many influences and it’s regularly performed in Brazil and all over the world. 
Crowl has been awarded The Brazilian Foundation for the Arts (FUNARTE) Music Commission Prize on two occasions, in 2013 and 2015. His output comprises a large number of compositions, from solo to symphony orchestra, songs to opera, as well as music for theater and cinema. 
Since 1994, he lives in Curitiba, southern Brazil, where he is the Artistic Director of the Federal University of Paraná’s Philharmonic Orchestra. He was Professor at the School of Music and Fine Arts of Paraná (EMBAP) and also produced and presented programs for the State of Paraná Educational Radio, for many years. As a musicologist, he has discovered and published both 18th and 19th centuries’ music by Brazilian composers and has intensely lectured on Brazilian classical music worldwide. He has been ISCM's Brazilian Section delegate from 2002 to 2006.

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