Andersen Viana

Andersen VIANA is an interdiciplinary multiartist (composer, writer, film director, performer, visual artist, scholar) and professor at State Fundação Clóvis Salgado (www.fcs.mg.gov.br) in Belo Horizonte-Brazil. He began composing at the age of 13 and became a professor at the age of 19. He has studied with his father Sebastião Viana and subsequently he completed PhD studies in Music Composition at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) and furthered his studies at other institutions in Brazil, Italy and Sweden such as the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna, Arts Academy of Rome, Accademia Chigiana di Siena and the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Worked as a flutist and violist (solo, chamber and orchestras) since 16 years old. He has written 465 music pieces for almost all the instrumental and vocal ensembles that exists. For his creative work (from music, texts, albuns, projects, films, paittings) he has received 59 awards and recognitions in Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Italy, Malaysia, Singapore, Spain, Serbia, Ukraine and the USA.