CALDEIRA, Taina

Tainá Caldeira (b. 1989) is a Brazilian composer and guitarist from Rio de Janeiro. She began playing guitar at the age of fifteen and soon developed an interest in composition. She later studied classical guitar with Graça Alan, Elodie Bouny and Mário da Silva, and pursued studies in Composition and Conducting at EMBAP in Curitiba. Her work includes contemporary chamber music, music for guitar and arrangements, often connected with Brazilian musical traditions and with projects dedicated to music by women composers. Caldeira has taken part in composition festivals such as Sonora – Ciclo Internacional de Compositoras, Novvas – II Mostra da Atual Música Curitibana and Festival Escute Aqui, where her solo flute piece Grãos de Pólen was premiered. Her catalogue includes works and arrangements such as Grãos de Pólen, Seu Jongo, Reciclos and a transcription of Lina Pires’s variations on Mucama bonita for guitar quartet