School of Music presents recital by UnB pianist

The School of Music of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (EMUFRN) welcomes this Wednesday, 29th, at 8pm, the renowned pianist Gisele Pires Mota, professor at the University of Brasília (UnB) and PhD from Florida State University (USA), for a recital performance in the Onofre Lopes Auditorium. Titled Hommage, the presentation brings together Polish and Brazilian works.
On a national level, the recital marks the centenary of the birth of composer and conductor Cláudio Franco Santoro and the 70th anniversary of the death of composer and conductor Heitor Villa-Lobos, described as “the most significant creative figure of the 20th Century in Brazilian classical music” and the best-known South American composer of all time.  On an international level, it commemorates the 170th anniversary of the death of Frédéric Chopin, a Polish pianist based in France and one of the best-known in the history of music in the Romantic era, and the 60th anniversary of the death of Grazina Bacewicz, a Polish guitarist, author of beautiful works little known outside of Poland.
Gisele Pires
With a PhD in Piano Performance – Accompaniment and Chamber Music from Florida State University (USA), Gisele Pires Mota has a master's degree in Musical Performance from the Federal University of Goiás and a specialization in Pianistic Performance from the University of Brasília (UnB). She was a piano and chamber music teacher and co-repeater at the Brasília School of Music for 15 years and, in 2016, won 1st place in the Competition for Effective Piano and Musical Structuring Teacher, a position she currently holds. She is part of the CNPQ APHECAB Research Group, investigating the song repertoire produced by Brazilian composers in the Hermelindo Castello Branco collection. She is the coordinator of the Pianistic Research Laboratory (LPP), of the Department of Music at UnB, researching Brazilian repertoire for solo piano, mainly by female composers.