Ronaldo Miranda

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Ronaldo Miranda (born April 26, 1948 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a Brazilian composer .

Miranda studied piano and composition at the Music School of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro . He began his career in 1974 as a critic for Jornal do Brasil , but after winning first prize at the II. Bienal da Música Contemporânea Brasileira (II. Biennale for Contemporary Brazilian Music ) in 1977, he turned increasingly to composition. In the early 1980s, Miranda won several composition competitions, including the prestigious Troféu Golfinho de Ouro in 1981 , which is awarded by the government of Rio de Janeiro. In 1984 he ended the collaboration with the Jornal do Brasil.

Thanks to his composition Variações Sinfônicas , a work commissioned by the Orquestra Sinfônica de São Paulo , Miranda was named best composer of the year in 1982. In 1984 the French Ministry of Culture made him a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres . Thanks to a donation from a fund in São Paulo, he was able to write his opera Dom Casmurro , which was first performed in May 1992 at the Theatro Municipal in São Paulo. In the 1990s his works were frequently performed at festivals for contemporary music in Brazil, Spain , Austria , Germany and Hungary, and in 2004 at the EJCF in Basel .

Miranda also works as a professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and is currently director of the Sala Cecília Meireles , a large concert hall in Rio de Janeiro.

On September 22, 2006, his opera A Tempestade , with a self-written libretto, was premiered at the Theatro São Pedro in São Paulo . It is an arrangement in Portuguese of the play The Tempest by William Shakespeare .

On June 28, 2007, his string quartet Texturas was premiered at the Theatro Municipal in São Paulo .

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SURNAME Miranda, Ronaldo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro