Faculty

Eduardo Navega

Director, Discovery Program

Eduardo Navega, a native of Brazil, began his music studies in São Paulo at an early age. He received his bachelor’s degree in composition and conducting from the State University of Campinas and his master’s degree in music from the University of Sheffield in England. He is currently completing a doctor of musical arts degree in conducting at the Hartt School of Music. He has studied with Benito Juarez, Henrique Gregori, and Harold Farberman.

From 1978 to 1989 Mr. Navega was conductor of the University of São Paulo choir. During this time he wrote a significant number of arrangements of Brazilian popular songs for choir, most of which are still in the repertoire of choirs throughout Brazil. Mr. Navega joined the Campinas Symphony Orchestra as a viola player in 1987 and two years later became its assistant conductor, a post he still holds. He is currently on leave of absence from his duties as assistant professor of choral and orchestral conducting at the State University of Campinas. From 1992 to 1993 he was the conductor of the University of Sheffield Chamber Orchestra and received public and critical acclaim for his performances. He has been guest conductor of a number of choirs and orchestras in the Brazilian states of São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Paraná, and Rio de Janeiro, and has also conducted the Varna Symphony Orchestra in Bulgaria.

Mr. Navega was awarded the prize of "Up and Coming Conductor of the Year" in 1995 by the APCA, a prestigious critics association in the state of São Paulo. He has been conductor of the Vassar College Orchestra since 1999.
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