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Instructor: Danielle Lisboa

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DMA Eastman School of Music,  University of Rochester

MM University of Houston
 

Dr. Danielle Lisboa received her DMA from Eastman School of Music in orchestral conducting and her MM with special emphasis on opera conducting from MM University of Houston.  While teaching analysis, harmony and conducting at the Candido Mendes University in Rio de Janeiro, she also conducted the Orquestra do Teatro Nacional.   She is currently conductor of Orchestra Toronto.

Brazilian-born Lisboa has a doctorate in orchestral conducting from the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester. Most recently, she was co-conductor of the Brockport Symphony Orchestra, in New York state.

Lisboa received her master’s degree in orchestral conducting, with special emphasis on opera conducting, from the University of Houston. She was appointed assistant conductor to Peter Jacoby at the Moores Opera House, where she was praised for conducting operatic performances.

She studied orchestral conducting with Franz Anton Krager, choral conducting with Charles Hausmann and opera conducting with Peter Jacoby and Larry Rachleff at Rice University in Houston, Texas. She made her American debut conducting the Moores School of Music Symphony Orchestra at Cullen Performance Hall in Houston.

Lisboa began her professional career as a concert pianist. She studied and later taught piano at the Conservatório Brasileiro de Música in Brazil and in the United States at the Kingwood Music School in Kingswood, Texas.

Her academic studies began at Brazil’s largest university, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, where she founded a chamber orchestra dedicated to promoting the music of emerging Brazilian composers. She won the conducting competition at the XIII Curitiba Music Festival in Brazil, receiving rave reviews, and made her opera debut conducting a Brazilian production of Ernest Mahle’s opera Maroquinhas Fru-Fru.

Lisboa has held appointments with some of the major orchestras in Brazil, including Orquestra do Teatro Nacional in Brasilia, while working as professor of music at Candido Mendes University in Rio de Janeiro. She championed the need to reach out to the community and to inspire and inform music lovers by delivering lectures and seminars in music appreciation.

Lisboa is a recipient of the Brazilian Government’s prestigious CAPES/Fulbright scholarship, which sponsored her doctoral studies under maestro Neil Varon. Other significant awards include the Schissler Conducting Prize and honors from the International Conducting Competition Fundação Oriente held in Portugal.

 

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