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Alexandre Nanni

President

Violin

Born in Porto Alegre (RS), Alexandre Nanni is a violinist and founding member of the former early music ensemble Capella Strumentale (RS). A founding member and president of Capelle 1641, he is one of the project's creators, performing as a violinist and curating its repertoire. His career includes participation in the International Early Music Meeting at EMESP (São Paulo); the masterclasses of the Europäisches Hanse-Ensemble in Lübeck (Germany); the International WinterAcademy of Early Music Bremen & Historic Brass Studio in Bremen (Germany); the Workshop für Alte Musik in Westerstede (Germany); and the Summer Early Music Workshop in Slavonice (Czechia). As an independent researcher, he works on seventeenth-century music and instrument making. Through organological research, he has contributed to reviving models of the da braccio family that were progressively excluded from the Baroque and modern canons, reconstructing their setups for seventeenth-century musical practice. Among the makers whose models he has studied are Ventura Linarol (c. 1540-1591), Marcin Groblicz I (c. 1540-c. 1609), Matthias Hofmans III (1594-1675), and Jacob Stainer (c. 1618-1683). He is currently researching the Alemannic school of seventeenth-century violin making and the role of the Germanic composer-performer of that period.

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Vinícius Chiaroni

Musical Director

Violin

Born in São Paulo, Vinícius Chiaroni specialized in recorder and Baroque oboe at the São Paulo State School of Music (EMESP). He holds a bachelor’s degree in Early Instruments from São Paulo State University (UNESP), as well as a master’s and a doctorate in Music from Santa Catarina State University (UDESC). Working across research and the performance of historical music, he belongs to several early music ensembles in Brazil, notably the EMESP Baroque Orchestra (São Paulo), Bach Society Brasil (Rio Grande do Sul), and Capelle 1641 (Santa Catarina), of which he is a founding member and musical director. His career includes appearances at numerous gatherings and festivals, among them the Juiz de Fora Music Festival (Brazil), Curitiba Music Workshop (Brazil), International Early Music Meeting at EMESP (São Paulo), Stuttgart Early Music Meeting (Germany), Open Recorder Days Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Loulé Early Music Meeting (Portugal), and Woodend Winter Arts Festival (Australia). His undergraduate monograph examined musical ornamentation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In his master’s research, he studied rhythm and meter in seventeenth-century music. His doctoral research investigated the Rost Codex in the context of Roman-Germanic instrumental music of the seventeenth century. He is currently researching Roman-Germanic musical styles in light of the thought of Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680).

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Marília Oliveira

Administrative Director

Soprano

Marília Oliveira began her musical studies at the Chapecó School of Arts. She completed a degree in Music Education at Santa Catarina State University (UDESC) in 2012 and a bachelor’s degree in Voice at the Brazilian Conservatory of Music (CBM) in 2014. In São Paulo, she took part in the Opera Workshop at the Municipal School of Music and the first class of the Opera Studio at the São Paulo Municipal Theatre, while holding a scholarship with the São Paulo State Youth Choir. In 2017, she entered a master’s program in Maastricht (the Netherlands), studying under mezzo-soprano Yvonne Schiffelers. She has worked professionally as a soprano since 2008, when she joined Polyphonia Khoros under the direction of Mércia Mafra Ferreira, singing both in the choir and as a soloist. Her work spans opera, concert performance and chamber music, with a particular focus on Baroque and Classical repertoire and works for coloratura soprano. With Leandro Rocha, she forms the Duo Oliveira-Rocha, with which she produced A Rouxinol e a Rosa, Materna and Flor de Sonho. She also forms the ColoraTour Duo with pianist Sam Machado; the duo appeared in UDESC’s Piano em Foco program. She produced the performance Conjunções and has collaborated with pianist Bernadete Póvoas. In 2023, she received the Best Interpreter of a Song by Carlos Gomes award at the 16th Concurso Estímulo para Cantores Líricos in Campinas, São Paulo. A singing teacher and vocal coach since 2011, she teaches individuals and groups and leads workshops in vocal technique and expression for choirs, vocal ensembles and actors, in Portuguese, English and Dutch.

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Gustavo Gargiulo

Artistic Curator

Cornetto

A cornettist from Buenos Aires, Argentina, he studied trumpet in his native city, performing with various ensembles and orchestras. His passion for early music led him to study and research the Baroque trumpet and the cornett. He began his training in masterclasses with László Borsody (Baroque trumpet – Hungary) and Lene Langballe (cornett – Denmark), and continued his cornett studies at the Geneva Conservatory (Switzerland), in the class of William Dongois. He subsequently furthered his studies at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris (France) with Jean Tubéry, where he obtained his Concert Artist Diploma in Early Music. He performs regularly with ensembles such as Cappella Mediterranea (Switzerland/France), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (Germany), Pygmalion (France), Les Nouveaux Caractères (France), Mare Nostrum (Italy), and Barroca del Suquía (Argentina), under the direction of Leonardo García Alarcón, René Jacobs, Gabriel Garrido, Manfredo Kraemer, Françoise Lasserre, Jean Tubéry, Raphaël Pichon, among other distinguished conductors. His discography includes more than 15 CD and DVD recordings for the Harmonia Mundi, Naïve, and Alpha labels. He also maintains an extensive teaching activity in Argentina, Brazil, and Europe, giving masterclasses at the University of São Paulo (USP), the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), the University of Viña del Mar (Chile), the National Museum of Lithuania, the Académie Baroque Européenne (France), the Crescendo Summer Institute (Hungary), the International Baroque Summer School Valtice (Czech Republic), MLSMD Schloss Scharfeneck and Letnia Akademia Muzyki Dawnej (Poland), and the Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón (Argentina).

Marcos Holler

Musicologist

Harpsichord and organ

He holds a degree in Biology (1985), a Bachelor's degree in Music, specializing in harpsichord (1990), a Master's degree in Arts (1995), and a PhD in Music (2006), all from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP). In 2012, he conducted postdoctoral research at NOVA University Lisbon (Portugal), under the supervision of Prof. David Cranmer, and in 2016 he was a visiting researcher at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar (Germany), at the invitation of Prof. Tiago de Oliveira Pinto, as a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation/CAPES. He is currently a retired Associate Professor at the Santa Catarina State University and is active in the Graduate Program in Music at the same institution. He has experience in the field of Arts, with an emphasis on Historical Musicology, working mainly on the following topics: Brazilian archives, the history of music in Santa Catarina, and music in the Society of Jesus in Portuguese America. He was editor of Opus, the journal of the Brazilian National Association for Research and Graduate Studies in Music, from 2015 to 2019. He is the author of the book Os jesuítas e a música no Brasil colonial (The Jesuits and Music in Colonial Brazil), published in 2010.

Lucas Ropelato

Archivist

Violone

Born in Jaraguá do Sul, Santa Catarina, Lucas Ropelato holds a Bachelor's degree in Cello from the Santa Catarina State University (UDESC). He began his musical studies with piano lessons at the city's Casa da Cultura under the guidance of Mercedes Doege, later switching to the cello with Ricardo Feldens, under whose direction he also performed in the chamber groups and camerata of SCAR. He also studied with Augusto Gruetzmacher through the social project Música Para Todos and is currently a member of the Jaraguá do Sul Philharmonic Orchestra. He has participated in numerous festivals and workshops throughout the state of Santa Catarina and was recognized as an outstanding student at FEMUSC. He has taken masterclasses with Vana Bock, Per Nystrom, Eduardo Vasallo, Alan Rafferty, Sarah Kim, Johannes Moser, Natasha Brofsky, Avi Friedlander, Rafael Cesário, and Catherine Rimer. At UDESC, he studied under Hans Twitchell. He is currently dedicated to research on the solo cello in the Italian Seicento.