CACILDA BORGES BARBOSA - BRAZIL
BORN 18 MAY
Cacilda Campos Borges Barbosa was a Brazilian pianist, conductor and composer. She was one of the pioneers of electronic music in Brazil. Barbosa was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and graduated from the National School of Music of Brazil. She studied with Antônio Francisco Braga, piano with P. Chaves, harmony with Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez and theory with Lima Coutinho. After completing her education, Barbosa worked as a dance pianist playing waltzes and chorinhos, and in the 1950s was conductor of the Radio Center Drive orchestra.
Barbosa worked with Heitor Villa-Lobos from 1930, and served as director of the Instituto Villa-Lobos. She became a professor for chamber ensemble of the National School of Music at the University of Brazil and professor of counterpoint and fugue at the Popular School of Music Education. She also directed a number of orchestras and choir ensembles.
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BIANCA MARIA MEDA - ITALY
Bianca Maria Meda (c. 1665 – c. 1700) was an Italian composer. Little is known about her life, but she was a Benedictine nun at the convent of San Martino del Leano in Pavia. She published only one work, a collection of motets, Mottetti a 1, 2, 3, e 4 voci, con violini in Bologna in 1691.
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Cara Musici by Bianca Maria Meda
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