Brazil hosts a vast number of musical styles with musicians garnering international followings. One of the most unique, and influential is the composer and multi-instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal, who ...

His most famous work, Bachianas Brasileiras, is a tribute to the German composer Johann ... from choral and opera to chamber music. Racionais MC's (Rap) Brazilian rap is inseparable from Racionais ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian composer and pianist João Donato, who helped lay the groundwork for bossa nova but throughout his career defied confinement to any single genre, died Monday.

SOUTH BEND — French soprano Gabrielle Goudard and Brazilian composer and pianist Élider ... Peru and the U.S. She has studied and performed opera, Western classical music, jazz, Balinese ...

The Gomes piece that opens the program is the overture to the composer's 1870 opera Il Guarany. Although Gomes himself was Brazilian, and the opera (itself based on a novel by a Brazilian author ...