Flô Menezes: biography
Flô Menezes (São Paulo, Brazil, 1962)
• residence: São Paulo, Brazil
• composer
He studied Composition at the University of São Paulo (USP) with Willy Corrêa de Oliveira. From 1986 to 1990, he received from Germany a DAAD grant to study with Hans Humpert at the Studio für elektronische Musik of Cologne. In 1991, he was based at the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale (CSC) in Padova, Italy, to study computer music. He also attended courses in France with Pierre Boulez (in 1988) and Brian Ferneyhough (1995, an invited composer of Fondation Royaumont), and in Austria with Luciano Berio (1989). In 1992, he concluded a Doctorate on the work of Berio in Liège under the supervision of Henri Pousseur. In 1992, he worked on Berio’s manuscripts at the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Basle, Switzerland. His analysis of Visage by Berio was granted an award in 1990 at the 1st International Musicology Competition, Italy. He is founder and Director of the Studio PANaroma - the most significant studio of this genre in Brazil - and is currently Professor of Electroacoustic Music and Composition at the State University of São Paulo.
Flô Menezes
