In the early 1980s he planned and organised the six year jazz programme at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. He has studied and published a report on jazz education in the U.S. and is currently Artistic Director of the four year degree programme in Jazz Studies at the Royal Academy of Music, London. He has performed with his own groups, composed for film, radio and tv in many different settings including symphonic orchestra and big band, directed courses and workshops, been published and lectured, broadcast, recorded and interviewed about jazz and jazz education in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, India and the Far East. Received several honours. IV Antonio Adolfo Rhythmic Music Education in Brazil Lecture with recorded examples and slides.
Brazil is a multicultural country with rich musical traditions.
This lecture will demonstrate how the rhythm influences the music and describe typical Brazilian phrasing and its relationship to musical interpretation as well as to the culture in a wide perspective. Discussion of the representation of Brazilian culture in schools. Antonio Adolfo has performed with his own bands as well as with great singers like Elis Regina and Milton Nascimento and he has done several albums. His songs have been recorded by such artists as Sergio Mendes, Stevie Wonder, Herb Albert and Earl Klugh and others. Two times he has won the International Song Contest.