MARLUI MIRANDA –
voice, percussion, research (guest artist –
ENCANTARIA)
Marlui 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.
CD recordings
include: Olho D`Agua (Warner -1979);
Revivencia (Memoria, 1986); Rio Acima
(Memoria, 1989); Paiter Merewa (Memória, 1987);
IHU, Todos os Sons (Pau Brasil, 1995); IHU,
Todos os Sons – scores (Arvore da Terra, 1995;
Kewere –Rezar (Pau Brasil 1997); Ponte entre
Povos (SESC-SP 2005).
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