Arts at the University of Wyoming since 2007.
Ms. Santos has lectured and performed in the Americas, Europe, and China. The Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung stated: "The audience was not only astonished by Ms. Santos's provocative pianism, but also by her enthusiastic temperament." She is a recipient of various awards in the field of solo and collaborative piano and has premiered many works dedicated to her. Ms. Santos is strongly devoted to researching and recording music by twentieth-century and contemporary Latin and Northern American composers. She is featured in "A Brazilian Collection” (Tijuca Label) with trumpeter Luis Engelke, and “Moyugba Orisha” (White Pine Music Label) with gold award winner violist Juan-Miguel Hernandez. The latter includes the premieres of the Sonatas for Viola and Piano by American composer Paul Chihara and Brazilian composer Edmundo Villani-Côrtes. In 2009, Ms. Santos was awarded a Faculty-in-aid grant by the UW for the release of the first American publication of selected piano solo works and art songs by E. Villani-Côrtes.
Ms. Santos has co-founded and partnered in two duos: BelleDonne Piano Duo with Portuguese pianist Alexandra Mascolo-David, and Duo Braziliana with American mezzo-soprano Melanie Ohm. Duo Braziliana has brought international attention to the performance and research of Brazilian Art Song. Ms. Santos has served as a presenter, committee member and adjudicator for the Music Teachers National Association, as well as at the College Music Society and the Mediterranean Studies Association national and international conferences. She is a volunteer with the Partners of the Americas Association, an institution that promotes cultural and educational exchange between the US and Brazil.
Ms. Santos has been an artist in residence at various venues among them: the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra and Gilmore Keyboard Festival Partner School, Gilmore's "Keys to Education" and Piano Summer Camp, the Latin American Music and Art Festival and Midland Symphony Orchestra Opera Season in Michigan; AIMS Summer Opera Program in Graz, Austria; Brazilian Literature Institute in Arizona; Plymouth Chamber Music Festival in Massachusetts; and Bach Music Festival in Peru.
Ms. Santos’s teaching commitments involve yearly master classes and workshops at American as well as Brazilian universities. Her students have been prized winners of various local and states competitions in both piano solo and chamber ensemble categories. Her teaching philosophy encourages the development of artistry through the knowledge of musical subjects in combination with body awareness. She is the advisor of the Luso-Brazilian Student Organization at the UW.
Ms. Santos earned an Artist Diploma from the Musikhochschule in Cologne, Germany and her Master's and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in Collaborative Piano from Arizona State University.
Rubia Souza Santos, Piano
Biography
Arts at the University of Wyoming since 2007.
Ms. Santos has lectured and performed in the Americas, Europe, and China. The Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung stated: "The audience was not only astonished by Ms. Santos's provocative pianism, but also by her enthusiastic temperament." She is a recipient of various awards in the field of solo and collaborative piano and has premiered many works dedicated to her. Ms. Santos is strongly devoted to researching and recording music by twentieth-century and contemporary Latin and Northern American composers. She is featured in "A Brazilian Collection” (Tijuca Label) with trumpeter Luis Engelke, and “Moyugba Orisha” (White Pine Music Label) with gold award winner violist Juan-Miguel Hernandez. The latter includes the premieres of the Sonatas for Viola and Piano by American composer Paul Chihara and Brazilian composer Edmundo Villani-Côrtes. In 2009, Ms. Santos was awarded a Faculty-in-aid grant by the UW for the release of the first American publication of selected piano solo works and art songs by E. Villani-Côrtes.
Ms. Santos has co-founded and partnered in two duos: BelleDonne Piano Duo with Portuguese pianist Alexandra Mascolo-David, and Duo Braziliana with American mezzo-soprano Melanie Ohm. Duo Braziliana has brought international attention to the performance and research of Brazilian Art Song. Ms. Santos has served as a presenter, committee member and adjudicator for the Music Teachers National Association, as well as at the College Music Society and the Mediterranean Studies Association national and international conferences. She is a volunteer with the Partners of the Americas Association, an institution that promotes cultural and educational exchange between the US and Brazil.
Ms. Santos has been an artist in residence at various venues among them: the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra and Gilmore Keyboard Festival Partner School, Gilmore's "Keys to Education" and Piano Summer Camp, the Latin American Music and Art Festival and Midland Symphony Orchestra Opera Season in Michigan; AIMS Summer Opera Program in Graz, Austria; Brazilian Literature Institute in Arizona; Plymouth Chamber Music Festival in Massachusetts; and Bach Music Festival in Peru.
Ms. Santos’s teaching commitments involve yearly master classes and workshops at American as well as Brazilian universities. Her students have been prized winners of various local and states competitions in both piano solo and chamber ensemble categories. Her teaching philosophy encourages the development of artistry through the knowledge of musical subjects in combination with body awareness. She is the advisor of the Luso-Brazilian Student Organization at the UW.
Ms. Santos earned an Artist Diploma from the Musikhochschule in Cologne, Germany and her Master's and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in Collaborative Piano from Arizona State University.
Visit the Web site of Dr. Rubia Santos: www.duobraziliana.com