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DA1B-F518-52A7
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Departamento de Comunicação e Arte | Universidade de Aveiro

Campus Universitário de Santiago
3810-193 Aveiro
Portugal

 

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DeCA UA
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CPAR

Silvio Ferraz

Retired Full Professor of Composition at the University of São Paulo (USP). Between 1998 and 2013, he taught at the University of Campinas (Unicamp) and the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP). More recently, he was a Visiting Professor at CESEM and the University of Évora during the 2022–2023 academic period.


He studied Composition with Willy Corrêa de Oliveira, Gilberto Mendes, Brian Ferneyhough and Gérard Grisey. Since 1985, he has regularly participated as a composer in contemporary music festivals and concert series, with his works performed in Brazil and abroad by ensembles such as Grupo Novo Horizonte, Camerata Aberta, Abstrai Ensemble and Ensemble Plurisons (Brazil); the Arditti String Quartet and The Nash Ensemble (United Kingdom); Ensemble Contrechamps (Switzerland); Ictus Ensemble and Het Spectra (Belgium); Taller de Música Contemporánea de Chile and Movimento Paralelo (Chile); and the New York New Music Ensemble (USA). He regularly collaborates with Brazilian and Latin American soloists. His catalogue comprises more than 200 works for various instrumental ensembles, electroacoustic music and music-theatre performances.

colisões de Chronos-Caos (7Letras, 2025).















Alongside his artistic career, he has maintained an active academic and cultural career. He served as Artistic and Pedagogical Director of the Campos do Jordão Festival (2009–2010), Pedagogical Director of the São Paulo State School of Music (2010), and founder and Artistic Director of Camerata Aberta (2010). Throughout his teaching career, he has supervised more than 100 doctoral and master’s research projects. He coordinated 17 research projects funded by academic agencies and served as coordinator of the Research Group in Musical Creation (2006–2022), under the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). He holds a PhD in Communication and Semiotics and is the author of Música e Repetição: aspectos da questão da diferença na música contemporânea (Educ, 1997), Livro das Sonoridades (7Letras, 2004) and Tempo-música: as colisões de Chronos-Caos (7Letras, 2025).








A researcher at CNPq, he develops projects in the field of contemporary musical composition, with a particular focus on exploring the implications of the concepts of time and energy in music from the late 20th and 21st centuries. His work has been recognised with the Vitae Award (2003) and the Zeferino Vaz Award (Unicamp, 2011). He is a researcher at the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and a CNPq PQ-1 Research Productivity Fellow in Brazil.

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