MARLUI MIRANDA – voice, indigenous recorders, percussion, Brazilian guitars, researchMarlui Miranda, singer, composer and researcher recognized for performing, disseminating and valorizing the culture and music of indigenous peoples in Brazil. Award from the German Academy of Critics (SchallplattenKritik) for her CD IHU, Todos os Sons (1996); Chico Mendes Environment Awards from the Environment Ministry (2005); and the Education and Culture Ministry's Order of Cultural Merit (2002). Marlui Miranda directs the IHU Association for Indigenous Music and Art, a private non-profit organization. She has performed and recorded with leading figures in Brazilian music such as Egberto Gismonti, Gilberto Gil, Nana Vasconcellos, Rodolfo Stroeter, and for sessions and tours with Jack DeJohnette and John Surman. Work for films and documentaries: best soundtrack award for Luiz Alberto Pereira's film Hans Staden (2002); the 1992 film At Play in the Fields of the Lord (Brincando nos Campos do Senhor) with Hector Babenco / Saul Zaentz (Amadeus, The English Patient). Frequent performances in Europe and the United States. Visiting professor at Chicago University through the Tinker Foundation (1993), and Dartmouth College (2001 and 2003); Artist-in-residence at Indiana University (2001 and 2007), and Dartmouth College; musical presentation at the University of London; Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College, 2003. Awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation grant for her IHU research and composition project to conserve and recreate indigenous music in Brazil (1986), and a grant from Map Fund-The Rockefeller Foundation (1995) for the IHU project's première.
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