Tania Lanfer is a Brazilian composer. She did her master's degree at UCSD in music composition and is currently living in Oakland, CA.

Artista sonoro, pianista, compositor, pesquisador e improvisador de Belo Horizonte.

Brazilian composer, performer, and researcher. 
PhD candidate - Department of Music/CNMAT, UC Berkeley (USA).

[profile photo by Gui Machala at Festival Plurisons 2024, Belo Horizonte/Brazil]

https://www.dannielribeiro.com/
https://cnmat.berkeley.edu/people/danniel-ribeiro

Contact: 
dannielribeiro@berkeley.edu
dannfribeiro@gmail.com
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Bio: 
Danniel RIBEIRO is a Brazilian composer from Bahia. His compositional practice is driven by research and creative exploration, focusing on exploratory instrumental writing and improvised performances supported by emerging technologies and informed by investigations into culture and identity. He examines musical gesture, instrumentality, and materiality to expand the expressive possibilities of complex timbral constructs and instrumental/sound phenomena in his compositions. His work integrates theoretical inquiry with practical experimentation, often involving the development of tailored instrumental preparations, modifications, notational systems, practical sculptural objects, amplification/transduced electronic apparatuses, and performance techniques. Danniel’s goal is to critically engage with social and cultural dimensions of contemporary concert music through research, analysis, performance, and creation, exploring the interplay between idiosyncratic artistic invention and broader cultural dynamics.

A four-time recipient of Brazil's National Composition Prize (FUNARTE), Danniel has participated in events and residencies, including Klangspuren Schwaz (Austria), the Banff Centre (Canada), Domaine Forget (Canada), Barcelona Modern (Spain), Darmstadt (GER), Festival Musica (France), New Music on the Point (USA), and ilSUONO (Italy). His works have been performed at notable venues and festivals such as Empreintes (France), Morelia (Mexico), and Sala São Paulo (Brazil).
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Danniel has collaborated with leading international ensembles, including L’Instant Donné, Yarn/Wire, Schallfeld, JACK Quartet, Barcelona Modern, RAGE Thormbones, collective lovemusic, Dal Niente, Vertixe Sonora, and Suono Giallo. He has also benefited from advanced studies with Chaya Czernowin, Franck Bedrossian, Clara Iannotta, Philippe Hurel, Malin Bång, Toshio Hosokawa, Felipe Lara, Daniel D'Adamo, Januibe Tejera, Mark Andre, Brian Ferneyhough, and Du Yun.

Danniel earned his master’s degree in composition (M.Mus.) at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University (Canada) in 2018, studying under Philippe Leroux. As a laureate of the 2023/24 George Ladd Prix de Paris, he pursued independent studies in France and recently completed the postgraduate specialization in instrumental and mixed composition at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg (France). Currently, Danniel is a Ph.D. candidate in music composition at UC Berkeley (USA), studying with Edmund Campion, Ken Ueno, Myra Melford, and Carmine-Emanuele Cella.

Brazilian composer based in Austria, whose work concentrates on timbric and spatial aspects. In his teenage years he studied composition informally with Almeida Prado and Marlos Nobre. Later Nassif received his Bachelor's degree in Composition at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (2003-7, class of Oiliam Lanna and Sérgio Freire) and Master's degree from the State University of Music and Performing Arts of Stuttgart (2009-12, class of Caspar Johannes Walter; seminars on Sonology with Oliver Schneller and Marco Stroppa); at the same University he concluded in 2014 with honor the Konzertexamen in Composition, last musical degree in Germany. He also carried out studies in the Alexander Technique (and the musical phenomenon) with Ilan Sebastian Grabe. Master-classes at international festivals include among others Alvin Lucier, Christian Wolff, Kaija Saariaho, Beat Furrer, George Aperghis and Georg Friedrich Haas.

Nassif's music has been played and recorded worldwide; in 2013 his portrait CD "musica d'incanto" was published in Brazil. He has also received various awards for his works, among them first prizes in events such as the Irino Prize 2011 (Tokyo) and the BMI Student Composer Awards 2009 (NY), as well as commissions (among others from the Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra, CordaNova guitar quartet, ensemble cross.art, SWR-Vokalensemble). In Germany he received in 2013 the "Karl-Sczuka-Förderpreis" on the SWR-Donaueschinger Musiktage; in 2014 a composer's fellowship from the BW-Kunststiftung and from the Akademie der Künste-Berlin. In 2015 he has obtained the "Kunstpreis Berlin" in the AdK and for the second time the Irino Prize (for "musica d'incanto").

Nassif is active in the multiple capacities of composer, interpreter/performer (piano, ad-hoc) and curator/organizer of concerts. In partnership with several musicians, he has organized and participated in an extensive number of concerts in the cities where he has resided, such as the contemporary music series 'eu gostaria de ouvir' (Belo Horizonte, 2008-12). His varied parallel interests (Experimental Art, Philosophy, Meditation, Pranayama and others) reverberate in his recent works.

Composer from Santos, Brazil. Current Composition student at University of Campinas(Unicamp).

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