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Born in Rio de Janeiro, on March 21, 1980, she started her music studies at the age of 13 with piano lessons at Academia Dineyar Valente Plaza, in the neighborhood of Campo Grande (Rio de Janeiro). In 1999, she entered the Villa-Lobos School of Music, where she attended the basic piano studies and professional training courses in Sound and Audio, with Alexandre Freitas, Flute, with Carlos Alberto Rodrigues and Instrumental conducting with Alceo Bocchino.

In 2003, in parallel to music studies, she graduated from Universidade Estácio de Sá as a bachelor in Journalism. Having worked as a journalist, producer and voiceover for a radio program at the former Rádio Imprensa (2001) and as a journalist at the newspaper Monitor Mercantil (2001-2002).

As soon as she graduated as a technician in instrumental conducting in 2010, she founded the ensemble Orquestra de Câmara Carioca, and made series of independent concerts in different places in Rio de Janeiro and in neighborship, among the main concerts she conducted: “Romance for violin and orchestra” by A. Dvoràk with soloist Priscila Plata Rato; a “two-voice Mass premiere” by Sigismund Neukomm for chamber orchestra; and the “piano concert n.21” by W.A. Mozart with the soloist Jonas Dantas.

In 2011 she entered the bachelor's degree course in orchestral conducting at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro where she was a student of conductors Marcelo Jardim, Jésus Figueiredo and graduated in 2016, under the guidance of Ernani Aguiar, conducting the opera “Hansel und Gretel” de Engelbert Humperdinck, with children's choir, soloists and UFRJ Symphony Orchestra. At the head of the UFRJ Symphony Orchestra, she also conducted works such as Guerra-Peixe's “Roda de Amigos”, Francisco Mignone's “Gavota e Minueto”. She was also in charge of the UFRJ Wind Orchestra conducting some works, among them “A little concert suite”, by Alfred Reed and “Beauty and the beast”, arranged by Toshio Mashima. She also participated in conducting festivals and masterclasses, and was the first alternate in the selection for assistant conductor of the Guarulhos Orchestra, in 2019, among candidates from all over the Brazilian country.

In 2015, she started working with social projects, ahead of Social Action for Music in Brazil, a social project that took her to a training course for leaders in Venezuela. She was a pedagogical coordinator in 3 groups: “Morro do Alemão”, in Rio de Janeiro; “Mosela”, in Petrópolis; and “Escola Padre Quinha”, in the Cuiabá Valley, Itaipava. In all of them, she participated directly in the initiation of children's orchestras, with collective classes and rehearsal techniques for beginning orchestras.

In 2017, she entered the postgraduate course in musicology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro under the guidance of João Vicente Vidal, with a research on the nationalist neoclassicism of Alceo Bocchino, of whom she was a conducting student, analyzing the work “Modinha e fugue for orchestra strings”. Having defended her dissertation, considered by the board as “excellent and innovative” on 24th October in 2019.

Currently she is dedicated to the production management of the SINOS project, National System of Social Orchestras, a partnership between the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and FUNARTE (Fundação Nacional de Artes), assisting in the organization and planning of the project's actions and managing the national production. She is also conducting and directing the “SINOS Young Chamber Orchestra.

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