Andersen Viana
Composer
Lagoa Santa, Brazil
String Quartet Smackdown V
Viana is a Composer and professor at Fundação Clóvis Salgado (Belo Horizonte-Brazil). He has a Ph.D in Music by Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) and BA by Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG); lately he has studied in other institutions in Italy and Sweden such as Reale Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna, Arts Academy of Rome, Accademia Chigiana di Siena and Royal College of Music in Stockholm. He has composed 415 music pieces and received 29 national and international composition awards from Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the USA.