Bio
A versatile musician and artist eager to explore new artistic medias, Marcelo Martinez Vieira is a cello player with a solid education as well as a passionate composer, musical creation and improvisation enthusiast, always in transit between different musical styles and diverse artistical activities. Raised in Piracicaba-SP, had an early musical initiation, at the age of five, in Piracicaba Music School-“Maestro Ersnt Mahle”, where he had cello lessons for several years with Monica Wolff and André Micheletti among others, and where he took part in several chamber, orchestral and vocal groups.
Graduated in Campinas State University (Universidade de Campinas-Unicamp) under the orientation of the great Greek-Brazilian cellist Dimos Goudaroulis, Marcelo played in Experimental Repertoire Orchestra in São Paulo and in many Inner State Cities Orchestras in São Paulo State, and presently works as a freelancer musician in Campinas region orchestras including Campinas City Orchestra (Sinfônica Municipal de Campinas), City where he lived for 8 years. Marcelo is now a Graduate Student at Louisiana State University School of Music, studying with great cellist and pedagogue Dennis Parker, majoring in Jazz Studies under the orientation of Bill Grimes.
Marcelo has a wide experience in improvisation and musical production in Popular Music and Brazilian Jazz, and already performed along with Orquestra Popular de Câmara, Luiza Possi, Sandy&Jr. and Falamansa,(in Montreux Jazz Festival in 2003), among many other artists. He was Brazilian Music instructor in 2009 Christian Howes Creative Strings Workshop in Columbus Ohio, and guest artist in the Vermont Improvising Strings Academy-Visa 2009, invited by cellist and composer Eugene Friesen. Marcelo has been researching and teaching improvisation and string arranging, as well as pioneering in developing a method of singing and playing for string players.
Prizewinner Dance and Theater soundtracks composer, he explores live improvisation for all kinds of Dance and Theater performances, and worked in this field with Adilson Nascimento and Myiako Kato Dance Space (Tokyo-Japan), among many others. Was awarded with a full scholarship from Louisiana State University, where he presently works on a master degree. He has been presenting the show “Cello&Voice”, a unique work in which he plays the cello and sings, exploring the relationship musician-instrument in an multi-artistical performance, and have also been supporting and developing new contemporary repertoire for the cello and for chamber group.
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