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Luíz
de Moura Castro, born in Rio de Janeiro, gave his first concert in this
city at the age of 9 in the Teatro Municipal. He accomplished his music
studies at the National Music School of the Federal University of Rio de
Janeiro (summa cum laude), the Music Academy Lorenzo Fernandez, Rio de
Janeiro, and the Liszt Academy, Budapest. He has played with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Orquestra da Rádio de Lisboa, the Filarmonichi di Turino, the orchestras from Bratislava & Janacek, the Yaroslav Symphony Orchestra (Russia), the symphonic orchestras of Dallas, Fort Worth, Hartford and Syracuse, the Parabobo Orquestra de Venezuela, and all major Brazilian orchestras. He gave recitals at the Piccolo Scala – Milano, Teatro Ghione – Roma, Salle Gaveau – Paris, Palau de la Musica – Barcelona, Rubinstein Hall – St.Petersburg Academy, and Merkin Hall of the Metropolitan Museum – New York. In 1998, Lilli Kraus invited him to teach at the Texas Christian University, Fort Worth. He is also a guest professor at the Catholic University, Washington, D.C. and at the Pro Arte Seminários de Música, Rio de Janeiro. Moura Castro recorded more than 20 CDs for Ensayo (Spain), Euterpe (Switzerland), L’Art (Brazil) and Musical Heritage (USA). Highly appreciated as a pedagogue, Professor Moura Castro was included in the international Music Who’s Who and in the American list “The Most Wanted Piano Teachers in the USA”. He organises the Liszt Festival in Rio de Janeiro and is member of the American Liszt Society. In 2002, he both taught and performed in Japan, Russia, Italy, Czech Republic, Belgium, Portugal, USA and Brazil. He played with the symphonic orchestras from Hartford and Caracas, recorded 4 CDs and participated in several festivals. His last recordings are the “Variations on a theme by Paganini”, concertos n°2 and n°3 by Rachmaninov, Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue”, “Momo Precoce” by Villa-Lobos and the Liszt concertos n°1 and n°2. |
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