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Works for Cello

Suite brasileira (1948-50), for cello and piano.

Sources:

• Conte, F. (2013, April 7). Homenagem a Alceo Bocchino. Escola de Música UFRJ. https://musica.ufrj.br/comunicacao/noticias/arquivo/homenagem-a-alceo-bocchino

• Furman Schleifer, M., and Galván, G (2016). Latin American Classical Composers, A Biographical Dictionary. London: Rowman & Littlefield.

• Musica Brasilis. (n.d.). Alceo Bocchino. Música Brasilis. https://musicabrasilis.com/composers/alceo-bocchino

Alceo Bocchino

Brazilian composer, conductor, and pedagogue, born November 30, 1918, died April 7, 2013.

Born in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, the composer and pedagogue Alceo Bocchino studied with Rosa Lubrano, Antonio Metilo, and Joao Poeck. He also attended Law School in Curitiba. Bocchino moved to Sao Paulo in 1944, where he continued his music studies with Camargo Guarnieri and Dinorá de Carvalho. He held pedagogic positions at the School of Music and Fine Arts of Curitiba, the Santos Conservatory, and the Oscar Lorenzo Fernández Music Academy in Rio de Janeiro. Bocchino was a director for Radio Mairink-Veiga en Mundial and an orchestral conductor for the Rio de Janeiro National Symphony Orchestra and radio stations in Sao Paulo. In 1960, Bocchino conducted the first posthumous symphonic concert of Villa-Lobos’ work.