GARCIA, Denise

  Brazilian composer and teacher at the Music Department at the State University of Campinas - UNICAMP.

Bachelor in Composition at the Communication and Arts School - ECA at the University of São Paulo. From 1979 to 1984 she continued her studies at the "Nordwestdeuche Muikakademie Detmold" and "Hochschule für Musik Munchen" both in Germany. Master of Arts by the State University of Campinas and Philosophy Doctor in Communication and Semiotics by the Catholic University of São Paulo - PUC-SP.

Her piano teachers were Menininha Lobo, Caio Pagano, Werner Genuit and Gottfried Hefele and her composition masters were Willy Corrêa de Oliveira, Giselher Klebe and Wilhelm Killmayer.

During the time of studies in Germany she had her compositions played in several concerts at the Music Academy and also at the Youth Composers Concerts at Darmatdt Musiktage in 1982. Between 1984 and 1991 she has dedicated herself to interdisciplinary researches at the Center of theatrical researches LUME/UNICAMP, composing music for theater and dance. Her works of this period were presented in several Theater Festivals in Brazil and abroad.

Docent at the State University of Campinas since 1985, she teaches composition and harmony in the Undergraduated Studies and is Academic Supervisor of Graduated Studies in Music. Her researches with environmental sounds recording began in 1989 and from that period to 2000 she has mostly composed in the field of electroacoustical music. In 1997 she has made a stage for her PhD at the INA-GRM Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris, under the supervision of Daniel Teruggi. Her electroacoustical works have been played broadly in Brazil and at International Festivals (FUTURA, France in 1994 and 1998; Freiburg in 1997; Montreal in 1998; México City in 1999; Berlin in 2000; Brussels in 2001).

Since 2006 she has composed mostly for symphonic groups and has been performed by Symphonic Orchestras in São Paulo, Campinas, Santo André and others.