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Curriculum Vitae of Alexandre Dias: Alexandre Ferreira de Souza Dias, born in Brasília on January 16, 1984, began his piano studies at age 10.

From 1999 to 2004 he had private lessons with Elza Kazuko Gushikem, a piano professor at the University of Brasília, and from 2004 to 2008 he had private lessons with Neusa França, former assistant to Magda Tagliaferro, and a pioneer in music education in Brasília. She attended masterclasses in ensemble practice and classical piano with Professor Maria Teresa Madeira at the 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, and 30th International Summer Courses of the Brasília School of Music (CIVEBRA) (January 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008), classical piano with Pierre Feraux at the 27th, 28th, and 29th CIVEBRA (January 2005 and 2006), with Piero Rattalino (April 2006, Brasília National Theatre), as well as harmony classes with Ian Guest at the 28th, 29th, and 30th CIVEBRA (January 2006, 2007, and 2008).

During this period, he participated in several recitals as a student, performing solo piano works by composers such as Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Liszt, and Scriabin, as well as chamber music.

In December 2002, he was invited by conductor David Junker to join the Madrigal UnB as a bass, remaining until 2003. From November 2003 to December 2004, he was a member of the UnB Choir as a répétiteur and bass pianist.

Parallel to his musical activities, he earned a degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Brasília (Bachelor's in 2005 and Licentiate in 2006), defended his master's dissertation in 2009, and his doctoral thesis in 2013, both from the Postgraduate Program in Ecology at the University of Brasília, in the area of ​​Bioacoustics, investigating the sound communication of birds in the Cerrado biome. From 2010 to 2012, he worked at Paulista University (UNIP – Brasília Campus) as a biology professor. From 2013 onwards, he dedicated himself exclusively to music, continuing his activities as a pianist, researcher, and piano teacher.

During his time as a student at UnB, he took several courses in the Music Department, including Introduction to Music 1 and 2 with Professor Bohumil Med, Musical Perception 1 with Professor Sérgio Nogueira, Musical Perception 2 with Professor Jonas Correia, Advanced Harmony 1 to 3 with Professors Alexandre Antunes and Renato Vasconcelos, Chamber Music 1 and Harmony and Improvisation in Brazilian Popular Music (MPB) with Professor Renato Vasconcellos, Recording Practice 1 with Professor Vadim Arsky, and Choral Singing 1 to 3 with conductors David Junker and Edson Carvalho.

In 2001, he created the internet discussion list called “O Malho,” which was active for about 10 years, focusing on topics related to choro and the music of the Brazilian Belle Époque, from the transition between the 19th and 20th centuries, an area in which he became specialized.

From 1999 to the present, he has researched the work and discography of Ernesto Nazareth, this being his longest-running research topic. Around 2004, he managed to gather all of Ernesto Nazareth's scores based on research in various libraries, private collections, and sheet music stores. During this 16-year period, he cataloged more than 3,000 commercial recordings of Nazareth's works made since 1902 in various countries. Of these, he managed to gather 2,621 recordings in his collection by October 2015, forming the largest discographic collection of this composer. Books about Ernesto Nazareth, academic publications, videos, an extensive archive of newspapers and non-commercial recordings were also collected and cataloged.

During this period, he began to be recognized as a leading figure in the study of Ernesto Nazareth, and was invited to participate in TV programs such as "Conversa de Músico" (TV Senado, 2004) and "Piano & Movimento" (UnB TV, 2007), performing rare pieces by Ernesto Nazareth; and radio programs such as "Música e Músicos do Brasil" - Rádio MEC FM, Rio de Janeiro - in 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2013, presented by Lauro Gomes, and "Roda de Choro" - Rádio Câmara, 96.9 FM, Brasília – in 2003, 2005, 2012 and 2013, presented by Ruy Godinho, performing on the piano and providing information about the works of composers such as Ernesto Nazareth, Marcello Tupynambá and Aloysio de Alencar Pinto, with special programs dedicated to them. In 2005, he presented a program entirely dedicated to Aloysio de Alencar Pinto, with whom he had the opportunity to speak by telephone several times during the last five years of his life. In this program, broadcast by Rádio MEC and produced by Lauro Gomes, he performed Aloysio de Alencar Pinto's "Sarau de Sinhá" four-handed with Maria Teresa Madeira, and presented several recordings of Aloysio himself as a pianist. He also collaborated with Rádio MEC in various other ways, providing the complete discographies and non-commercial recordings of Guiomar Novaes and Nelson Freire for the creation of program series dedicated to these pianists. He frequently collaborates with educational institutions such as the Brasília School of Music and the University of Brasília, giving lectures and didactic recitals on the composers he researches.

In 2004, together with Wandrei Braga, he organized the website "Ernesto Nazareth - King of Choro" (no longer available, as it was absorbed by another website, which will be mentioned later), presenting historical and rare texts about Nazareth, as well as a special section dedicated to the pianist Maria Teresa Madeira, in which he cataloged more than 700 concerts by the pianist since 1979, with details of the date, location, name of each work performed, composers, and participating musicians.

In 2007, she began researching and delving into the rare and unpublished works of Ernesto Nazareth, producing the series "Rare Music by Ernesto Nazareth," available on the Sovaco de Cobra website (http://sovacodecobra.uol.com.br/2007/03/ernesto-nazareth-inedito/), for which she recorded 71 pieces in their original version for solo piano. For each piece, she wrote a text based on extensive research, including illustrations. These pieces include unpublished works (i.e., those that had not yet been commercially recorded) and rare pieces (which, for example, had not yet been recorded in their original version for solo piano).

As a result of this research, on March 24, 2007, she participated in the recital entitled "Music by Ernesto Nazareth You've Never Heard!", at the LBV auditorium in Brasília, organized by Professor Neusa França, and which also featured pianist Gustavo Trancho de Azevedo.

From 2007 onwards, she began giving private piano lessons. He holds semi-annual recitals with his students and guest pianists.

In 2008, he was invited by the American pianist Tom McDermott to record some of Ernesto Nazareth's rare music on CD. Fourteen tracks were recorded in a studio in Rio de Janeiro and were later sold on the Choro Music record label website in MP3 format (http://www.choromusic.com.br/mp3part-enraras.htm).). He was also invited by researcher Maria Luiza Kfouri to write an essay on Ernesto Nazareth for the digital encyclopedia "Musicians of Brazil: an encyclopedia," resulting in the essay "The Pianistic Influences in the Work of Ernesto Nazareth" (http://ensaios.musicodobrasil.com.br/alexandredias-ernestonazareth.htm).). Also in 2008, he was hired by the "Circuito Nazareth" project, coordinated by Rosana Lanzelotte, to revise all of Ernesto Nazareth's scores, generating the first complete edition of all his work, with standardized revision. The website was launched in 2009 at www.ernestonazareth.com.br.. In 2010, along with internationally renowned artists, he was invited to present two solo recitals at the Rio Folle Journée festival, where he presented pieces by Chopin and Ernesto Nazareth, in the annex of the Theatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro.

In 2011, with sponsorship from the Natura Musical grant, he coordinated the Chiquinha Gonzaga Digital Archive project. (www.chiquinhagonzaga.com.br), together with Wandrei Braga.

The project restored the fundamental works of Chiquinha Gonzaga, for solo piano and piano and voice, resulting in more than 300 scores. He also acted as researcher, musicological reviewer of all the scores (generating an unprecedented standardized edition), and pianist in the launch recitals in Rio de Janeiro (Instituto Moreira Salles and Escola Villa-Lobos), and São Paulo (Teatro Humboldt and Auditório Ibirapuera), and Brasília (Auditório da LBV).

In 2012, at the invitation of the Instituto Moreira Salles, he began working on the conception, research and coordination of the Ernesto Nazareth 150 Years website (www.ernestonazareth150anos.com.br), together with Bia Paes Leme and Paulo Aragão, in preparation for the sesquicentennial celebrations of the composer in 2013. For this website, he provided his unpublished research on Nazareth's complete discography, including more than 2,600 recordings are now available for online listening, and there is an extensive bibliography on the composer. The website's blog features numerous texts related to his research, such as the trilogy "Beloved by All," listing all the works dedicated to Ernesto Nazareth; "Nazareth's Knot," about a recurring pattern in his melodies; the trilogy "A Maxixe in the USA," about the rich history of the maxixe "Dengoso"; the trilogy "Maxixes Abroad," about the "fever" of maxixes in Europe and the USA in the 1910s; Frederico Mallio and Nazareth; Jacob do Bandolim and his thesis on Nazareth's suicide; Slang from Old Rio in Nazareth's Work; a text about the Commemorative Exhibition of Ernesto Nazareth's Centenary in 1963, with unpublished photos specially provided by D. Mercedes Reis Pequeno, the exhibition's organizer; and "A Manual of Tips for Researching Music on the Internet," with various information to assist researchers. Music has enhanced the scope of their research, including works such as “The Brazilian Piano Roll Industry,” “A Nazarethian Year – 2013 Retrospective,” “Nazareth by Himself,” “The Songbook of Ernesto Nazareth,” “The Nazarethian Musical Universe,” “Radamés Gnattali's Arrangements for Two Pianos,” and a text in homage to Dona Mercedes Reis Pequeno after her passing, compiling all the catalogs of the exhibitions she organized. The EN150 website has served as a worldwide reference for musicians and researchers interested in the work of Ernesto Nazareth, and has provided resources for new CDs and academic works released in recent years. In 2013, he helped to forge a partnership between biographer Luiz Antonio de Almeida and the Instituto Moreira Salles, enabling the online publication of his biography of Ernesto Nazareth, prepared over forty years, for the first time. He participated as a pianist in the launch recital of the EM150 website in March 2012, sharing the stage with Marcelo Bernardes (flute), Marcílio Lopes (mandolin), Luciana Rabello (cavaquinho), Maurício Carrilho (guitar), and Paulo Aragão (guitar).

In the same year, he was invited by the group Choro & Companhia to participate in the CD “Nazareth: fora dos eixos” as a repertoire consultant and pianist, and has been invited to write the liner notes for several CDs. In 2012, continuing with the rescue of works by Brazilian composers, he launched, with his own resources, the website Acervo Digital Marcello Tupynambá (www.marcellotupynamba.com),) in partnership with the publisher Irmãos Vitale, the composer's family, and the Institute of Brazilian Studies at USP, making available for the first time more than 230 scores by the São Paulo composer, in addition to his complete discography, filmography, images, bibliography, and the lyrics of all his songs transcribed in full.

For the launch of the website, he gave recitals with soprano Denise Tavares, presenting in first performance several lyrical songs by Marcello Tupynambá, in Brasília. In 2013, he was invited to play at the Villa-Lobos Festival (Espaço Tom Jobim), sharing the She shared the stage with musicians André Mehmari, Quarteto Maogani, and Sonia Rubinsky.

On this occasion, she gave the world premiere of the work "Passeando com Nazareth," which she commissioned from André Mehmari. And, in another recital, she shared the stage with the trio Terno Carioca (Lena Verani, clarinet; Luiz Flavio Alcofra, guitar; and Pedro Aragão, mandolin and tenor guitar), at Caixa Cultural, in Brasília.

In the same year, she launched the Henrique Alves de Mesquita Digital Archive (www.henriquealvesdemesquita.com.br),) with her own resources, in partnership with SESC Partituras, making available for the first time 56 works by this important Rio de Janeiro composer, in a new edition for which she carried out a revision with critical notes. She also cataloged his complete discography, images (including rare covers of original editions of his scores), videos, and the transcription of the lyrics of his songs. Other scores will be made available later this semester, including the complete score of his opera Une Nuite au Château.

In March 2013, he was invited to participate in the Ernesto Nazareth 150 Years Symposium at the Instituto Moreira Salles, held in partnership with UFRJ and UniRio, presenting the lectures: “Rhythmic patterns in Ernesto Nazareth – elements for understanding the concept of musical genre in the transition from the 19th to the 20th century”, and “Nazareth in Brazilian digital newspaper archives – a new source of musicological research”. On this occasion, he wrote the still unpublished article “New information regarding the life and work of Ernesto Nazareth obtained through research in the Brazilian Digital Newspaper Archive and comparison of plate numbers of published scores”.

Between 2013 and 2015, he revised six unpublished operettas by Chiquinha Gonzaga, which are now available in the Chiquinha Gonzaga Digital Archive (www.chiquinhagonzaga.com.br),) as part of the prize awarded by EMC Corporation (the project came in second place in an international competition). They are: A Corte na Roça, Forrobodó, Zizinha Maxixe, Depois do Forrobodó, Festa de São João and Manobras do Amor. He also revised Chiquinha Gonzaga's operetta Pomadas e Farofas for the Musica Brasilis portal.

In 2014, he presented solo recitals at Casa Thomas Jefferson in Brasília and at the Rio de Janeiro Yacht Club, with works by Schubert, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chabrier, Rachmaninoff, Poulenc, Kapustin, and world premieres of works he commissioned from Ricardo Tacuchian, David Thomas Roberts, and André Mehmari. To date, it has funded the commissioning of 13 works from contemporary composers, which have premiered in recitals: Passacaglia para Nazareth (by Edino Krieger), Passeando com Nazareth and Retrato de um Pierrô bem Acompanhado (by André Mehmari), Ernesto Nazareth no Cinema Odeon (by Ricardo Tacuchian), Tanguinho do Alexandre (by Jorge Antunes), Choro Dengoso and Valsa Brilhante (by Villani-Côrtes), 12 Estudos nazarethianos para violão solo (by Fabiano Borges), Remembrance (by David Thomas Roberts), Cinco Variações sobre um tema de Marcello Tupynambá (by Amaral Vieira), Um baile (by Leandro Braga), Os devaneios de um entediado Ernesto Nazareth ao tocar num despovoado Cinema Odeon (by Tim Rescala) and Aeroflux (by Ronaldo Miranda).

Commissions to Marlos Nobre and Gilberto Mendes are currently underway. Also in 2014, she participated in the conception and maintenance of the Brazilian Guitar Digital Archive portal (www.violaobrasileiro.com.br),), coordinated by Alessandro Soares. In the same year, she launched, together with musicologist Dr. Sara Cohen (UFRJ), the first volume of the Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Ernesto Nazareth, with meticulous research into the composer's manuscripts and first editions of each work. She also revised the 18 arrangements by Radamés Gnattali of Nazareth's works for two pianos, available on the EN150 website, in a partnership between Nelly Gnattali, the composer's widow, and the Instituto Moreira Salles. The launch was celebrated with a recital at the Instituto Moreira Salles, performed by Alexandre Dias and Maria Teresa Madeira on two pianos, presenting most of these previously unreleased arrangements.

Also in that year, she drafted the letter to the UNESCO commission that resulted in the designation of Ernesto Nazareth's manuscripts, held at the National Library, as cultural heritage of the United Nations.

Humanity, in the Memory of the World category. In 2015, he launched two more digital collections, using his own resources: the Zequinha de Abreu Digital Collection (www.zequinhadeabreu.com),), which presents the first detailed catalog of the composer's work, in addition to 108 of his scores for download, images, and bibliography; and the Eduardo Souto Digital Collection (www.eduardosouto.com.br),), which also presents the first catalog of the composer's work and offers 209 scores for download, in addition to discography, images, and bibliography. All the scores in the digital collections he has assembled come from numerous sources he has researched, including Brazilian libraries (such as the National Library) and foreign libraries (such as the National Library of France), private collections (from an extensive network of collaborators he maintains via email and social networks), and sheet music stores and online auctions. By the end of 2015, two more digital collections will be launched, making available works by Luciano Gallet and Sinhô. In the future, there are plans to launch digital archives dedicated to other Brazilian composers such as Aloysio de Alencar Pinto, Alexandre Levy, Luiz Levy, among others.

Also this year, he has presented a series of recitals in Rio de Janeiro (BNDES Auditorium and Villa-Lobos Hall at UniRio), Porto Alegre (Instituto Ling), Goiânia (UFG) and Brasília (CTJ Hall, Casa Thomas Jefferson), dedicated exclusively to Brazilian composers, with works by Claudio Santoro, Fructuoso Vianna, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Alexandre Levy, Alberto Nepomuceno, Henrique Oswald, Camargo Guarnieri, Francisco Mignone, Jorge Antunes, Edino Krieger, Leandro Braga, Amaral Vieira, and Lorenzo Fernandez, including world premieres of pieces he commissioned.

In August 2015, the Instituto Piano Brasileiro (www.institutopianobrasileiro.com.br),) was launched with its own resources, a comprehensive internet portal dedicated to the rich universe of Brazilian piano music in its various spheres, with the aim of expanding its research. The site has eight sections: Encyclopedia (entries on Brazilian pianists and composers who wrote for piano, with information about their careers and catalogs of works, when possible), Discography (cataloging of recordings made by Brazilian pianists since 1902, in a large table, which can be sorted alphabetically in each column), Discs (section dedicated to cataloging specific discs, with their technical data sheets and covers), Scores (here we begin the first attempt to catalog all scores published in Brazil, listing them by publisher and plate number, continuing the work of D. Mercedes Reis Pequeno, a pioneering researcher in Brazilian musicography. For this work, hundreds of catalogs from old publishers are being consulted, in addition to from the actual scores and newspaper advertisements of the time. Scores in the public domain will be available for download), Timeline (with important moments in the history of the piano in Brazil and the world, including competitions, concerts, historical recordings, premieres of works, and the creation of conservatories), Images (various images relating to Brazilian pianists and composers), Library (cataloging publications on the subject, such as books, academic works, newspaper and magazine articles, and record inserts) and Blog (a section that will constantly offer new perspectives on the Brazilian piano, including unpublished research and interviews with current pianists). For the inauguration, a special interview was conducted with pianist Nelson Freire at his residence.

In October 2015, he worked on organizing the manuscripts of Chiquinha Gonzaga, which are now available on the IMS website http://fotografia.ims.com.br/partituras/