Antonio Massa Viana • Guitarist
About
Antonio Massa Viana is a classical guitarist based in the Boston region. He attended the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College in New York City, where he began his professional music career as a member of the baroque ensemble Ars Latium and the B.C. Guitar Ensemble. Among other venues, he was a frequent guest for the NY Psychiatric Medical Association and for events at the Brazilian Consulate in New York and also a regular guest musician at St. Theresa’s church in Woodside and St. Paul’s Catholic Church, in East Harlem. He was also featured at the Gustavus Adolphus Lutheran Church Concert Series.
He taught at the Mozart Music Studio, in Woodside, and at the Music Academy, in Mamaroneck, NY, amongst others, and was the music curriculum teacher for St. Kevin’s Catholic School, where he educated students from Pre-K to 8th grade. He was also an assisting instrumentalist for the New York Foundation for the Arts music program at P.S. 48 and a manager for New York Youth Symphony’s Making Score program.
He is the author of "Macumba", a piece premièred by
The Brooklyn College Percussion Ensemble, for which he received the 2001
Award from the Institute for Studies in American Music. On that same
year, the NY Youth Symphony String Quartet included his composition ‘Two
Sketches for String Quartet on Paintings of Edward Munch’ in an Evening
of New Music. He is currently composing music for children.
His classical guitar teachers include Lars Frandsen and Alvimar Rocha. He studied composition and orchestration with Derek Bermel and Douglas Cohen.
While in college, he met his wife, Argentinean soprano Lelia Tenreyro-Viana. Together they have performed a variety of repertoires from Bossa Nova to European 19th-Century music and Contemporary Music for voice and guitar.
Antonio Massa Viana is also an author with several published works, including two poetry books in his native Brazil. You can read more about it in here.
You can also follow Antonio's political organizing as the head of Project "Nos Votamos", created to educate Brazilian-Americans about their electoral strength in Massachusetts.
Antonio is a proud father of three and has been a Massachusetts resident since 2002.
* Antonio Massa is also a published author. Find more in here.