Irish-based Brazilian composer Victor Lazzarini releases his CD, Voices Inside, on 7 May.

The album contains electro-acoustic and live-electronic works in a variety of styles, ranging from vocal explorations to a Jazz-inspired eulogy to John Coltrane. The works portray, mosaic-like, the eclectic nature of Lazzarini's compositions, a meeting point of various musical streams and interests: the contemporary and the ancient, the technological and the primeval.

Victor Lazzarini was born in Londrina, Brazil. He began his musical studies at the local conservatory and his first contact with composition was at the winter courses of the Festival de Música de Londrina as a pupil of Aylton Escobar and Claudio Santoro. He read music at Campinas State University (UNICAMP) as a composition pupil of Damiano Cozzella and Almeida Prado and, following graduation, was awarded a scholarship to pursue postgraduate study at the University of Nottingham, where he obtained his doctoral degree in 1996.

He is currently Senior Lecturer at the Department of Music and director of the Music Technology laboratory at NUI Maynooth. Major composition awards include the Hallward Composition Prize (1996) for his Magnificat, a large-scale work for voices, choir, instruments, orchestra and tape; and first prize at the 2006 IMRO/AIC Mostly Modern International Composition Competition for Dance of the Dawn.

The disc is released by Farpoint Recordings and the launch takes place at Dublin's Goethe-Institut on Thursday, 7 May 2009 at 6.30pm with a concert including a multichannel diffusion of some of the composer's latest music.

Further information: Farpoint Recordings, tel. 086-412 7200 or email info@farpointrecordings.com.

Posted: 30 April 2009