SIDNEY MOLINA

Graduated in Philosophy at São Paulo University (USP), he is also a specialist in Musicology at Carlos Gomes College. Recently he got his PhD: "The Guitar in the Age of Recording - Performance and Misreading in the Art of Julian Bream" at PUC-SP, having Professor Arthur Nestrovski as his advisor. His music regular studies started at the age of 7 at Paulistano Musical Conservatory, at Arts Foundation of São Caetano do Sul and at the study groups guided by the renowned teacher Ricardo Rizek.

He had famous guitar teachers such as Manuel Fonseca, Armando Vidigal and Edelton Gloeden. Together with his wife - Olga Molina, a musical education specialist -, he directs Mozart Musical Conservatory in São Paulo since 1985, and organizes "Mozart National Guitar Festival" since 1995.

He was the idealist and presenter, together with the musician Sergio Molina, of the some broadcasting series transmitted by FM Cultura Broadcasting Station of São Paulo. He has been acting as guitar teacher and lecturer at the main guitar and chamber music festivals in Brazil and abroad. His first book, "Mahler in Schoenberg", was launched in 2003 by Rondó Publications.

As member of Quaternaglia Guitar Quartet since its foundation in 1992, he participated of the CDs and DVD recordings and performed at all Quaternaglia's recitals, workshops, master classes and concerts with orchestra, in Brazil and overseas.

Nowadays he teaches Guitar and Musical Esthetics at Alcântara Machado Arts College (FAAM), in São Paulo (SP), and Guitar at State University of Pará, in Belém (PA). His six-string guitar and also his seven-string - in which he is a specialist since 1997 - are both left-handed instruments build by the Brazilian luthier Sergio Abreu.

In 2008, Molina performed as a soloist and in duo with the Brazilian baritone Vinicius Atik and the Japanese soprano Yoko Tanaka at Suntory Hall in Tokyo (Japan). One of the greatest highlight of the program was the world premiere of the piece "Glass Poem" written by the Brazilian composer Sérgio Molina.