Jocy de Oliveira

JOCY DE OLIVEIRA (Composer, author, multimedia artist, pianist) Jocy de Oliveira has been involved as a composer/ author in a variety of media since the early 1960s utilizing acoustic and electronic instruments, music - theatre, installations, texts, graphics, video, and audiences in an approach to an organic development of performance / composition works. She composed nine major multimedia operas, which have been acclaimed through several productions in different countries, released on 6 DVDs distributed by NAXOS Video Library and one full length film in process of being finalized for distribution in cinemas and through NAXOS. Author of five books published in Brazil, France and the USA, Jocy de Oliveira recently launched Dialogue with Letters, published by SESI SP, 2014, which was acclaimed by the media and received the most important literature prize in Brazil - Jabuti Literature First Prize, 2015. This same year the French edition of this book was very successfully launched in Paris by Editions Honoré Champion as part of the Sorbonne musicology collection. In 2016 the book was selected as finalist for the Premio Rio de Literatura. A book “Leituras de Jocy” coordinated by Rodrigo Cicchelli and Manoel Correa do Lago is released by Editora SESI SP compiling analyses and reflections from 27 authors on her work. The most important Brazilian International literature Festival held in Parati July, 2018 is focusing on her works and honoring her during its opening and two other different presentations. She received a number of grants and awards, such as Guggenheim Foundation (2005) Rockefeller Foundation (1983 and 2007), Bogliasco Foundation (2004 and 2016), CAPS (New York Council on the Arts), besides Vitae and Rioarte Foundations in Brazil. She was elected a life member of the Academia Brasileira de Musica, holds a Master of Arts degree (1968) from Washington University, St. Louis, USA and received an Honorary Doctorate from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 2016. She released twenty five discs of her own compositions and other contemporary works as a pianist, including five CDs of Messiaen’s major piano cycles, also distributed by NAXOS International. As a pianist dedicated to contemporary music, she was soloist under the baton of Stravinsky, had several pieces written for her and performed numerous premieres of works by Berio, Xenakis, Santoro, Cage, and Manuel Enriquez. Her composition works have been performed frequently in such theaters and festivals as: Berliner Festspiele Marz Muzik, Haus der Kulturen der Welt and Hebbel Theater in Berlin, StaatsTheater Darmstadt, Festivals Dresdner Tage der Zeitgenössischen Musik - Dresden, Expo 2000 Hannover, Ludwigshafen Opera Festival, Bayrischer Rundfunk, Munich, Salzburg, Aspekte, The Hayden Planetarium, Carnegie Hall, Brooklyn Academy - New York, New Music America Festivals, Miami Planetarium Bellas Artes - Mexico, Teatro Avenida, Buenos Aires, Radio France - Paris, Gaudeamus and Gulbenkian Foundations, Chengdu - China, Biennials of Contemporary Music, Rio de Janeiro, Teatro Municipal of S. Paulo and Rio among numerous other theaters, festivals and radio stations in Brazil, USA, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Germany, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Hungary and China.