Lina Pires de Campos née Del Vecchio (São Paulo, 18 June 1918 – São Paulo, 14 April 2003) was a Brazilian pianist, music educator and composer of both classical and popular music.

Life

Lina Pires de Campos was born in

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, the daughter of Italian

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Angelo Del Vecchio. She studied piano with Ema Lubrano Franco and Léo Peracchi and music theory and composition with Furio Franceschini, Caldeira Filho and

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. Later she studied composition with

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. Pires de Campos worked as assistant to

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and in 1964 founded her own piano school. She won awards as a composer including in 1961 the Roquete Pinto medal and the second place composition prize from Radio Mec. Her works have been performed internationally.

Works

Selected works include: *''Improvisação I'' for flute *''Improvisação II'' for flute *''Improvisação III'' for flute *''Ponteio e Toccatina'' for guitar *''Quatro Prelúdios'' for viola *''Confession'' song (lyrics by Alice Guarnieri) *''Embolada'' *''I'm Like the Spring'' *''Fad'' *''Portrait'' *''Tune'' *''You Say He Loves Me'' Her works have been recorded and issued on disc, including: *1984 ''25 Years of Composition'', (LP) *1998 ''Lina Pires de Campos: Audible Universe'' Audio CD

References

1918 births 2003 deaths 20th-century classical composers Brazilian music educators Women classical composers Brazilian classical composers Brazilian women composers Women music educators 20th-century women composers {{Brazil-musician-stub