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Rodrigo Cicchelli Velloso
Works for Cello
Latitudes emaranhadas (1994), for cello and tape.
Sources:
Centro de Experimentación e Investigación en Artes Electrónicas. (2018, August 16). Rodrigo Cicchelli Velloso. Centro de Experimentación e Investigación en Artes Electrónicas. http://ceiarteuntref.edu.ar/2018/08/rodrigo-cicchelli-velloso
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Música da UFRJ. (n.d.). Rodrigo Cicchelli Velloso. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Música da UFRJ. https://ppgm.musica.ufrj.br/rodrigo-cicchelli-velloso/
Rodrigo Cicchelli Velloso
Brazilian composer and pianist, born July 9, 1966.
Cicchelli was born in Rio de Janeiro on July 9, 1966. He graduated in Music Composition from the Villa-Lobos Institute of Unirio, where he studied from 1984-1990. He was also a student of César Guerra-Peixe from 1985-1987 and a student of Hans-Joachim Koellreutter from 1987-1988. In 1996, Cicchelli earned a PhD in Music Composition from the University of East Anglia in England as a CAPES Fellow under the direction of Denis Smalley. With funding from the French government, he took the Cursus de Composition et d’Informatique Musicale at IRCAM in Paris from 1995-1997. He graduated in flute performance at the Villa-Lobos Institute of Unirio in 2014 and earned a postdoctoral fellowship with the Unirio Graduate Program in Music in the second half of 2015, where he researched Brazilian repertoire for flute and electroacoustic resources.
Cicchelli has received several national and international awards and distinctions including First Prize at the Heitor Villa-Lobos Centennial Contest in 1987, as well as prizes and honorable mentions at the Luigi Russolo International Competition. In 2017, he had an artistic residency at Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras (CMMAS) in Morelia, Mexico.
Specifically focused on Brazilian electroacoustic music production, Cicchelli’s academic research has been centered on musical composition. His work has been featured at the Anppom, Simpom, and Abraf conferences, as well as in indexed magazines and journals such as Hodie Music, Interfaces, Background Music, Humanities, and Organized Sound. He is currently on the composition faculty of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. In addition to his academic and artistic activities, Cicchelli has produced and presented a weekly radio program (Eletroacústicas) since 2010 for MEC FM that is dedicated to the diffusion of the Brazilian repertoire.