Biography
Sergio Kafejian obtained his MA from Brunel University (London) and his PhD from UNESP (Brazil). In 2017, he was a Visiting Scholar at NYU Steinhardt (NY). Her activities involve instrumental composition, electroacoustic composition, and artistic-pedagogical education projects focused on the contemporary poetics of music. Among the awards he has received are the Prix Residence (1998), Prix pour ouevre electroacoustic avec instrument (2008) - both at the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition (France) - the Funarte Classical Composition Awards (2009, 2014) and the Gilberto Mendes Orchestral Composition Award (2008).
He worked as a pedagogical coordinator at EMESP (São Paulo State Music School) from 2010 to 2015, and also as Artistic Director of Camerata Aberta, an ensemble dedicated to 20th and 21st century music, with which he toured internationally four times and won the Bravo Cultural (best CD of 2011) and APCA (best program of 2010) awards. He has been a professor at Faculdade Santa Marcelina (FASM) since 2001, teaching Composition, Contemporary Music, Electroacoustic Music, and Music Analysis. He is currently doing a post-doctorate at the Department of Communication and Arts at the University of Aveiro as a researcher associated with INET-md.
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