Rodrigo Lima
*25 September 1976
Works by Rodrigo Lima
Biography
Born in Guarulhos-São Paulo, Brazil, in 1976, Rodrigo Lima is one of the most active composers of his generation, his music has been presented at festivals and concert halls in Brazil, Latin America, Europe and the USA. His production includes orchestral music, chamber music, solo instruments, vocal music and works for choir.
In 2008, he was resident composer of the 5th International Forum of Young Composers in Paris with Ensemble Aleph. In 2015, his work Antiphonas for saxophone and ensemble premiered at the 17th World Saxophone Congress & Festival in Strasbourg (France). In 2016, he received the order from the Festival International des Arts de Bordeaux (France) to compose the work Txury-ò: ‘caminho por onde vai o sol’ inspired by the cosmology of the Karajá Indians and dedicated to the french ensemble Proxima Centauri.
He has obtained some prizes in National and International Competitions:
· Prize International Iberoamericano Rodolfo Halffter of Composition 2008 in Mexico.
· Prize ‘Francisco Guerreiro Martín’ at the ‘XVII Premio Jóvenes Compositores 2006 Fundación Autor-CDMC’ in Madrid, Spain.
· Prize for Classical Composition of the National Arts Foundation (FUNARTE) 2010 in Brazil.
· 1ºst Prize of the National Competition Camargo Guarnieri of Composition 2005 in Brazil.
· 1ºst Prize Camargo Guarnieri of Composition, Campos do Jordão International Winter Music Festival 2009 in Brazil, and others.
Lima’s Music has been performed by the Ensemble Aleph (France), Ensemble Linea (France), Proxima Centauri (France), Abstrai Ensemble (Brazil), Camerata de las Amércicas (Mexico), Sonor Ensemble (Spain), Orchestutropica (Lisboa-Portugal), Abstrai Ensemble (Brazil), Camerata Aberta (Brazil), University of São Paulo Symphony (Brazil), Claudio Santoro National Theater Symphony Orchestra (Brazil) and conductors Claudio Cruz (Brazil), Guillaume Bourgogne (France), Luis Aguirre (Spain), Cesário Costa (Portugal), Kirk Trevor (England) and Claudia Feres (Brazil).
His main composition teachers were Estércio Marquez Cunha, Sergio Nogueira, Conrado Silva and Silvio Ferraz. Bachelor in Musical Composition Degree at the Department of Music University of Brasília and Masters in "Creative Processes" at the University of Campinas State in São Paulo. He also took courses with composers Stefano Gervasoni (Italy), Claude Ledoux (Belgium) and Emmanuel Nunes (Portugal).
Rodrigo Lima is teacher of composition at the 'EMESP’- School of Music of São Paulo State. Lima is a member of the General Society of Authors and Editors ‘Sociedade General de Autores y Editores (SGAE)’ in Spain.
About the music
I look for a poetics that makes the act of composing an exercise of permanent discovery of oneself and of the other. A dialogue between practices that permeate the harmonic and timbristic experimentalism of the 20th and 21st century, going through the medieval polyphony and the sonorous world of jazz and brazilian music. “SOL A PINO” for Orchestra, for example, develops as a spiral of affections, there is a certain anxiety in it that is reflected in its nature of permanent change, creating an intertwining of temporal flows that are constantly reconstructed. Or in “Txury-ò” for an ensemble where the creative stimulus came from the cosmological vision of the “Karajá” Indians of Brazil, with their songs, dance rituals and their relationship with nature and time. It is a song that evokes a circular movement between the present, on the one hand, the future and the past on the other, in a kind of ritualistic cycle.
