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     Andersen Viana has a PhD in Music Composition from the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. He started his activities as a composer at age of thirteen and as a music professor at the age of nineteen. At present he works as a composer-conductor, cultural producer as well as a professor at Clóvis Salgado Foundation – Palácio das Artes in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, besides giving lectures and workshops in various institutions both in Brazil and abroad. He did his first studies with his father – Sebastião Vianna (assistant and revisor of Villa-Lobos) – and lately he furthered his studies in other institutions in Brazil, Italy and Sweden – namely   UFMG, UFBA, Reale Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna, Arts Academy of Rome, Accademia Chigiana di Siena and Royal University College of Music in Stockholm. He has  published many articles both in Brazil and Europe. 
    He has also received 25 awards in Argentina, Brazil, Europe and the USA, including the first prize in the International Contest of Composition ”Lys Music Orchestra 2001” in Belgium, “First Prize” and the “Audience Prize” in the “Lambersart 2006 International Contest of Composition” in France. Up to the present he has composed around 340 musical pieces for voices, acoustic and electronic instruments. 
         He has also composed film scores for the following films: A Cartomante, Retalhos do Taquaril, Bem Próximo do Mal, Jogando para o Amanhã, O Próximo Passo, Gun’s Speech, Trem Fantasma, 3:00:AM, Corações Ardentes, Filhos de Adão, Perdidos em Abbey Road, Vivalma, Manuelzão e Bananeira, Ofélia, Opostos, Minas Portuguesa, O Homem da Cabeça de Papelão, Condenado, Ser Humano, Um Dia Qualquer, Nego, Reenactment, Desafios and Oswaldo França Júnior.  
      He has also organised and conducted/directed various vocal and instrumental ensembles such as: "Orquestra Experimental" (1983), "Septheto Rio" (1986), "Coro Pedagógico da FEBEM" (1991), "Coro do Centro de Estudos da Embaixada do Brasil em Roma" (1993), "Coro da Cultura Inglesa BH" (1994), "Trio Barroco" (1994), "Orchestra Virtual" (1995), "Estocolmo Nonet" (1996), “The Duo” (1997), “Coro da SMRU”, “Camerata Primavera” (2003), “A Cigarra e a Orquestra” (2006-2008) and the “Coral IOCHPE MAXION”(2009). He has developed diverse musical projects in countries other than Brazil such as: Argentina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic France, Greece, Honduras, Italy, Macedonia, Portugal, USA, The United Kingdom, Russia, Switzerland and Sweden. 

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