Lúcia Barrenechea
Pianist Lucia Barrenechea is a native of Brazil and currently holds a teaching position at UNIRIO-Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. She has a BM in piano performance from the Universidade Federal de Goias and a MM from The Boston University. She received her DMA in Piano Performance from the University of Iowa. She has participated as piano and chamber music teacher in important music festivals in Brazil, such as Villa-Lobos Festival in Rio de Janeiro and numerous editions of the International Summer Course in Brasilia. Featured as soloist, Lucia Barrenechea presented regularly in recitals in many Brazilian cities. She was also a soloist in concerts with Brazilian orchestras, under the direction of Eleazar de Carvalho, Emanuel Martinez, Parcival Modolo, Fabio Mechetti, Norton Morozowicz and Vladmir Prado. Her first solo album, “Saracoteio - Piano Brasileiro” has been released in 2009, by the label Ethos Brasil, including works of Brazilian composers. She has performed first auditions of solo piano works by prominent Brazilian composers. Recognized as a notable chamber pianist, she has performed with wellknown musicians in the national and international musical scene and has recorded projects that involve the repertoire of different instrumental formations. Her most recent project was the recording in two volumes of CD (Vol. I and II), DVD and Blu- Ray (Vol. I) of "Villa-Lobos Presence in Brazilian Music for Cello and Piano" (2013 and 2017), in partnership with cellist Hugo Pilger, which includes the complete works for cello and piano by Villa-Lobos, as well as compositions by other Brazilian composers. With her husband, the flutist Sergio Barrenechea, she forms, since 1989, the Duo Barrenechea. They released, in 2008, their first commercial CD, “Moments in Paris”, with French music. Later, they recorded the triple CD “The Flute Music of Francisco Mignone” (2011) and the CD/DVD "Brasileirissimo: Encounters (2015).
