BIOGRAPHY
Almeida Prado studied music under Camargo Guarnieri (composition), Osvaldo Lacerda (harmony) and Dinorá de Carvalho (piano). In Darmstadt, Germany, undertook special studies with György Ligeti and Lukas Foss, and in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen. He was a member of the Brazilian Music Academy and professor at the Santos Conservatory (1965-1969), at the Dinorá de Carvalho School, and composition and orchestration at the Music Department of the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) (1975-2000). He was the director of the Cubatão/SP City Conservatory and of the Unicamp Arts Institute (1981-87). His Symphony No.1 received the Lili Boulanger Prize in Paris and his work Arcos Sonoros da Catedral Anton Bruckner was given the 1996 São Paulo Academy of Arts Critics prize. In the same year the first prize of the IX Francesc Civil Competition (Girona, Spain) was awarded to his composition Cantares do Sem Nome e de Partidas à Mirella Pinotti in Memoriam.