Júlio Medaglia

Internationally awarded author of a lot more than 100 film soundtracks, and in addition a significant inspiration for the Tropicalia movement, Júlio Medaglia can be an active jazz and MPB arranger aswell, employed in several countries. He started his musical research with Hans Joachim Koellreutter. In 1961, asked from the German authorities, Medaglia shifted to European countries and researched symphonic conducting in the Freiburg Music University. As well as Rogério Duprat and Damiano Cozzella, Júlio Medaglia examined with Pierre Boulez, in France, and Karlheinz Stockhausen, in Germany — in the same course as Frank Zappa. In 1963, as well as composers Régis Duprat, Rogério Duprat, Sandino Hohagem, Damiano Cozzella, Willy Correia de Oliveira, Gilberto Mendes, and Olivier Toni, most of whom had been deeply associated with contemporary experimentations in avant-garde music, Júlio Medaglia released the Música Nova express in São Paulo. The record proposed, among other activities, a knowledge of art within the ethnic sector, an abolition of nostalgia, and the need of engaged artwork in people’s lives. The music created within the motion remains contemporary after nearly four years. In 1965, Medaglia finished his research in Germany, obtaining his master’s level. Also, he was an helper for Sir John Barbirolli (1899-1970). In 1966, he came back to Brazil and started a prolific profession being a composer for movie theater and cinema. Being a expert for the creation team of Television Record’s III FMPB (Teatro Paramount, Oct 1967), he was the main one who presented Rogério Duprat to Gilberto Gil, which would represent a extreme transformation for the Tropicalia motion, then simply in gestation. Selecting the music for the three eliminatory stages from the festival was performed at Medaglia’s house. Medaglia had started to create the agreement for Gil’s “Domingo No Parque,” but as he was asked to be on the festival’s jury, he previously to interrupt the task. In the same calendar year (1967), he composed the agreements (and devised incidental happenings documented for that record, like the on-the-spot dialog where the percussionist Dirceu improvises a funny and irreverent explanation of Cabral’s entrance in Brazil) for Caetano Veloso’s initial solo record, Caetano Veloso, as well as Damiano Cozzella and Sandino Hohagen. Also, Medaglia provided to the music artists another important reference point for Tropicalia, the concrete poet Augusto de Campos. The Tropicalia manifesto released by Nelson Motta acquired Medaglia’s name among the movement’s associates. In 1968, Medaglia was person in the jury of Television Record’s IV FMPB, which honored first spot to “São Paulo, Meu Amor” (Tom Zé), and also other Tropicalia tracks, which had a significant effect on the motion. In that yr, he was asked by Gunter Schuller to visit the U.S. In 1970, he returned to Germany, where he created a lot more than 100 soundtracks for Television productions there. For the reason that yr, he recovered, carried out, and documented the rating of “Missa ? São Paulo,” made up in 1750 by Calixto and Anchieta Arzão. Like a conductor, Júlio Medaglia worked well for the reason that period for a number of European orchestras, like the Berlin Philharmonic. In 1974, he came back to Brazil, composing a lot more than 100 soundtracks for Television, cinema, and theatre, some of that have been awarded at many celebrations (Gramado RS, Fortaleza CE, and Brasília DF). In June 1995, he carried out the opera Lídia de Oxum, and in Sept carried out Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. Also, Medaglia carried out the Country wide Opera of Sofia, Bulgaria, in the opera Aida (Giuseppe Verdi, 1871). Within the next yr, he carried out the same business through the centennial commemorations from the death from the eminent Brazilian composer Antônio Carlos Gomes (1836-1896). On Sept 20, 1997, Medaglia was appointed as conductor from the Amazonas Filarmônica. On Apr 24, 1998, he visited Germany to supervise the recordings of seven of his parts for the brass music group from the Orquestra Filarmônica de Berlin. In June 1999, he was terminated, because of politics, through the Amazonas Filarmônica. In the same month, Medaglia was appointed movie director of São Paulo’s Teatro Municipal. In Apr 2000, he executed the Orquestra Sinfonia Cultura through the commemorations from the 500th wedding anniversary from the breakthrough of Brazil.