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Works for Cello

Meloritmia No. 2 (1975), for cello solo.

Seis duetos (1984), for 2 cellos.

Tres cantos natalinos (1985), for cello and baritone.

Duo (1986), for cello and violin.

Ponteando (1989), for cello solo.

Violonceladas (1993), for cello ensemble.

Salmo 150 (2017), for cello ensemble.

Quatro Momentos Nº 3 (1979), for 4 cellos.

Música a Três (1982), for 3 cellos.

Tres cantos natalinos (1985), for cello and voice bariton.

Duos de Prados (1986), for cello and violin.

Música para 4 Violoncelos (1997), for 4 cellos.

Meloritmias Nº 9 (2008), for cello solo.

Concertino, for cello, violin and string orchestra.

Meloritmias Nº 10 (2015), for cello solo.

Threnus Fratri meo Aloysio (2015), for cello solo.

Meloritmias nº 14 (2017), for cello solo.

Works for Viola

Música a très (1982), for 3 violas.

Meloritmias No. 5 (1987), for viola solo.

Seis duetos (1984), for 2 violas.

Duos de Prados (1986), for viola and violin.

Sources:

• Academic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias. (n.d.). Ernani Aguiar. Academic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias. https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/745576

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

Ernani Henrique Chaves Aguiar

Brazilian violinist, composer, and choral conductor, born August 30, 1950.

Ernani Henrique Chaves Aguiar was born in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Chaves Aguiar studied composition with César Guerra Peixe, violin and viola with Paulina D’ambrosia, orchestral conducting with Carlos Alberto Pinto Fonseca, and chamber music with Santio Parpinelli. Argentinian Mozarteum granted him a scholarship that allowed him to continue chamber music studies at the Conservatory Luigi Cherubini in Florence, Italy, where he studied violin under Roberto Michelucci, conducting with Annibale Gianuario, and chamber music with Franco Rossi, and music history with Mario Fabri. 

His compositions were performed with great success in Brazil and abroad, particularly Quatro momentos No. 3, for string orchestra. Chaves Aguilar is currently a professor of conducting at the Rio de Janeiro University, and at the State University of the same city.