Biography

José Daniel Telles dos Santos is a musician dedicated to teaching, research, creation, and performance in Music through the guitar. He has a degree in Classical Guitar (2010) and a master’s in social Memory and Cultural Heritage (2012) by the Federal University of Pelotas in southern Brazil. He is currently a student of the Doctoral Program in Music at the University of Aveiro, where he develops research on the development of arrangements for guitar duos. He has experience as a music teacher in several schools, conservatories and universities: Academia Espaço Musical JD (2001 to 2012), Colégio Salesiano de Don Bosco de Rio Grande (2008 to 2011), Heitor de Lemos School of Fine Arts (2013), Federal University of Rio Grande (2013) and Federal University of Pampa (since 2014). He was also part of the Rondon Project Team, the largest interdisciplinary project in Brazil, in Operation Carajás (2011), where he was working as a volunteer music teacher in the northern region of the country. He organized and coordinated several international events with an artistic-pedagogical character to promote guitar music in Brazil, including: Artistic Series "Violões do Sul" (2007-2011); "I International Guitar Festival of Mercosul" (2013) and "I International Guitar Seminar of Pampa" (2017). In partnership with guitarist Alexandre Simon, he founded in 2009 the Latino-América Duo, an artistic project that aims to spread Iberian-american music for guitar duo. With this work, he received the "Didactic Concerts" award from FUNARTE for the project Música sem Fronteiras (2014). In 2017, he released his first CD on a tour of 30 concerts in Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. This album was released in Germany and Portugal and was nominated for the Azorean Music Prize in Brazil (2019), in the category of best instrumental music performer. Due to his activity in several areas related to research, teaching, creation, and performance in music, he is interested in following themes: music education, collective teaching, social memory, cultural heritage, Ibero-American music, composition, and arrangement for guitar.