Marlos Nobre
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Marlos Nobre de Almeida was born in Recife, the Pernambuco state
capital, on February 18, 1939. When he was 5 years old, he started to
learn music in Recife city, at the Conservatório Pernambucano de
Música. In 1955 Marlos Nobre got his Piano degree. In 1956 he went to
the Instituto Ernâni Braga do Recife, an important Music Institute,
where he studied until 1959. In Rio de Janeiro Noble Marlos studied
with H. J. Koellreutter and Mozart Camargo Guarnieri at the São Paulo
Conservatory (1961 - 62). In 1963 he traveled to Buenos Aires, where he
had composition lessons at the school Torcuato di Tella with the
professors Alberto Ginastera, Olivier Messiaen, Aaron Copland, Luigi
Dallapiccola and Bruno Maderna. Marlos Nobre took a course in
electronic music with Ussachevsky at Columbia University (1969); was
music director of the Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira (1971-76); then
was president of the National Music Institute of the National
Foundation of the Arts (1976-79). Between 1985 and 1987 he was
president of the International Advice of Music of UNESCO, in Paris,
starting to direct the Fundação Cultural de Brasília in 1988. He
directed the Cultural Foundation of the Federal District from 1986 to
1990. He was the first Brazilian conductor to conduct the Royal
Philarmonic Orchestra of London, in 1990.