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Luciano Camargo is a Brazilian conductor, composer and music pedagogue, Luciano Camargo, began his musical path studying the violin at the Livre de Música University after initial inspirations from classical pieces. He completed his Bachelor in Music Performance degree in Conducting at USP - Universidade de São Paulo (1998). Among his teachers were Klaus Hövelmann and Peter Gülke in Freiburg, Ira Levin, Kenneth Kiesler, Roberto Tibiriçá, Roberto Duarte, Osvaldo Ferreira and Vladimir Ponkin. He then accomplished Academic Internshipn in Musicology at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany (2000-2001) and in Orchestral Conducting at St. Peterburg State Conservatory, Russia (2007), and since then he has developd a prolific research and performance on Russian Music. Among many courses and master classes, he worked with Kurt Masur on the Brazilian Symphonic Orchestra (OSB) in 2010, Fabio Mechetti with Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra (2013) and participated in the 2nd OSESP Award on Orchestral Conducting in São Paulo (2006). He obtained his Master of Music degree in Russian/Soviet Music/ Musicology (2010-2012) and his PhD degree in Russian/Soviet Music/Musicology (2013-2017) at USP - Universidade de São Paulo.
From 2000 to 2002, Luciano Camargo was Director for Sacred Music at St. Peter und Paul Kirche Freiburg, and since 2003 (or May 2009) is the General Music Director of Orquestra Acadêmica de São Paulo and Choral of the City São Paulo (UNIOPERA), developing a prolific career as conductor, performing concerts in the best concert and opera houses in Brazil, including a full production of Georges Bizet's Carmen (Teatro Bradesco, 2018), Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice in the Theatro São Pedro (São Paulo, 2010) and W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (August 2019) and the most important works of vocal-symphonic repertoire as Orff’s Carmina Burana, L.v. Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, W.A. Mozart's Requiem and Great Mass in C minor, Felix Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 2 “Lobgesang”, George Frideric Handel's The Messiah and 4 Coronation Anthems, an expressive number of J.S. Bach's Cantatas, among a comprehensive work with Brazilian composers like Heitor Villa-Lobos and José Maurício Nunes Garcia, as well with Dmitri Shostakovich, including Brazilian premieres of the oratorios Execution of Stepan Razin and Song of the Forests, among other orchestral performances like the Symphony No. 5.
In 2017 Luciano Camargo was named Professor for Conducting at the Federal University of Roraima (UFRR) in Boa Vista, leading also the Orquestra Sinfônica da UFRR and the University Choirs (February 2017-March 2023). Since March 2023, he is a full-time Professor at UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho". |
