Rael Bertarelli Gimenes Toffolo (born March 18, 1976) is a Brazilian musician,

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

and musicologist born in

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Education

Toffolo holds a Bachelor of Music in composition and conducting from the

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as well a master's degree in Musicology profile on the website of the State University of Maringa
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. His work as a researcher is in the field of Ecological Psychology,

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, and Cognitive Science applied to musical composition.

Career

Toffolo works within

contemporary classical music Contemporary classical music is classical music composed close to the present day. At the beginning of the 21st century, it commonly referred to the post-1945 modern forms of post-tonal music after the death of Anton Webern, and included seria ...

. He has composed for various formations including

chamber music Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small numb ...

solo instrument In music, a solo (from the Spanish and Italian based-word: ''Solo'', meaning ''alone'' or ''by yourself'') is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung featuring a single performer, who may be performing completely alone or supported by an ...

s and

electroacoustic music Electroacoustic music is a genre of popular and Western art music in which composers use technology to manipulate the timbres of acoustic sounds, sometimes by using audio signal processing, such as reverb or harmonizing, on acoustical instrumen ...

List of works

*Tempesta di Mare (2011) *O resto no copo (2010) *Sturm und Drang (2010) *Estudo para violão (2008) *Mutazione (2008) *El mar y las campanas (2008) *Beethoven através do Espelho I (2008) *2 Estudos para piano (2005) *Af for dance (2004) *Beethoven através do espelho - inventio (2005) *Sem Título, lápis sobre papel, técnica mista (2001) *Peça para Voz e percussão Múltipla (2000) *Peça para grupo instrumental (2000) *O Tempo da Espiral (2000) *Omaggio? (2000) - para sons eletroacústicos *Peça Para Piano e Percussão (1999) *Seven Ocean Waves *Anhatomirin (1996)

Awards

* Second Place (tie) for solo flute - National Competition Rhythm and Sound - UNESP - work with Ocean Waves'' Seven'' (1998) * Third Place - 1st International Electroacoustic Composition Contest - State Conservatory "Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira" to work for Af'' Dance'' (2006) * Award for Classical Composition of Funarte bass and real-time processing with the work on'' The Rest'' Cup 2010

References

1976 births Living people Brazilian composers São Paulo State University alumni {{Brazil-composer-stub