Heitor Villa‐Lobos | ar

Designer, sound carrier, cultural operator. Ph.D from the Department of Design of the Royal College of Art (2003) and Master in Visual Communication (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1992). Curator, futureplaces media lab for citizenship, since 2008. Heitor has released on various music labels (Touch , Ash International, Cronica Electronica, The Tapeworm) since 2001. Sound and AV collaborations include work with Jon Wozencroft, Fennesz, Biosphere, Lol Coxhill, Philip Marshall, Pangeia, Blaine L. Reininger, Bruce Geduldig, Len Massey, Max Eastley, Rafael Toral and BJNilsen. Other roles include: singer/soundscapist at the Stopestra music ensemble, the random music label 333, Autodigest,...

Heitor Villa-Lobos (March 5, 1887 — November 17, 1959) was a pioneering Brazilian modernist composer. He penned twelve symphonies, four operas, five ballets, and one of the most important string quartet cycles of the twentieth century. His music is noted for its exotic sound palette and formal inventiveness, influenced both by Brazilian folk music and stylistic elements from the European classical tradition. Villa-Lobos was born in Rio de Janeiro. After his father died, he earned a living for his family by playing in cinema orchestras and street bands in Rio. As a cellist in an opera company, he made early...

Heitor Teixeira Pereira, or Heitor TP is a Brazilian musician, who played with Simply Red and several famous musicias, like Elton John, Rod Stewart, K.D. Lang and Jack Johnson and is currently working as a film music composer at Hans Zimmer's studio. In 1994 he released a solo album in the UK called Heitor which featured guest appearance from Mick Hucknall on the track "Manchester". Heitor left Simply Red to concentrate on his solo career. He played guitar and composed music for soundtracks like Gladiator, Mission Impossible 2, The Road to El Dorado, I Am Sam, Spirit: Stallion of the...