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BIOGRAPHY
A winner of the Pro Musicis International Award (New York, 2001), Luiz Mantovani has
appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in some of the most important concert venues of
his native Brazil and abroad. His performance of Walton’s Five Bagatelles in Weill Hall/Carnegie
Hall was described by The New York Times as “powerful, beautifully shaped and just practically
flawless”. In 2010, he premiered Israeli composer Lior Navok’s Concerto for Guitar and
Orchestra with the Israel Sinfonietta Beer Sheva.
Highlights of current and past seasons include performances at Salle Cortot in Paris,
Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, Jordan Hall in Boston, Hong Kong City Hall, 92 St. Y in
New York, Beethovensaal in Hanover and Sala Cecília Meireles in Rio de Janeiro, as well as live
broadcasts for the National Public Radio – NPR in Boston, Washington, D.C. and Austin. As a
soloist with orchestra, he has performed with the New Russia Symphony Orchestra, Boston
Modern Orchestra Project, Petrobrás Symphony Orchestra and São Paulo Municipal Orchestra,
among others.
With a repertoire spanning five centuries of music, Luiz Mantovani’s diverse programs range
from his own transcriptions of early music for plucked instruments to works written for him by
contemporary composers. Commissions and national/world premieres include works by
American David Leisner, Israeli Lior Navok and Brazilians Ronaldo Miranda, Raul do Valle,
Acácio Piedade and Liduíno Pitombeira. His first solo CD, Appassionata, was recorded in 1998
and since then he has made a number of recordings, including music for movies and in
collaboration with renowned ensembles such as Boston Musica Viva.
An active chamber musician, in 2004 Luiz Mantovani joined the Brazilian Guitar Quartet, one of
world’s most sought-after guitar ensembles, with which he has performed extensively in four
continents. With them, he has recorded three CDs for Delos International: one featuring Isaac
Albéniz’s Suite Iberia, another with works by Heitor Villa-Lobos (a 2011 Latin Grammy winner
for “best classical album”) and most recently the album Spanish Dances, featuring works by
distinguished Spanish composers. He collaborates with flutist Michel de Paula since the ‘90s and
in 2012 their duo commissioned and premiered Brazilian Landscapes No.12 by Brazilian
composer Liduíno Pitombeira at Weill Hall/Carnegie Hall in New York.
Mr. Mantovani is currently a CAPES sponsored Doctoral student at the Royal College of Music in
London, where he investigates the guitar chamber music of Austrian composer Ferdinand
Rebay. The first guitarist to receive the prestigious Artist Diploma from the New England
Conservatory of Music in Boston, he holds a Master’s degree with honors from NEC and a
Bachelor’s degree from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. His guitar teachers were David
Leisner, Nicolas Barros and Antônio Guedes.
In addition to his performance career, Luiz Mantovani teaches guitar and chamber music at the
State University of Santa Catarina, in Florianópolis, Brazil, where his educational, performance
and outreach projects have deserved local and national recognition.
Updated in 30/08/2015.