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The Brzilian-born baritone (and former counter-tenor), Breno Quinderé Moura Teixeira de Azevedo, began his musical education at the age of 7 with piano lessons in Rio de Janeiro. However, he made the first intensive musical experiences in 2000 with the choir Coral Juvenil do Centro Educacional de Niterói (Director: Ermano Soares de Sá), in which he discovered the desire to group music performance and to early music. In 2010, he graduated with Diploma in Art Education (Music Pedagogy) at the Universidade do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) and completed, still as a baritone, his Bachelor of Music degree (focus: singing) at the Music Academy of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).
Already during his studies, Breno Quinderé worked as a lecturer for vocal education at the chair of choral singing. His singing projects included membership in the chamber choir SacraVox of the UFRJ (Director: Doz. Valéria Matos). With this choir he recorded the CD "Brazilian holy music in the 18th & 19th century"(UFRJ, 2009). He is also dedicated to Brazil's early music - this is documented on the CD "A Música na Corte de D. João VI" (UFRJ, 2008, Artistic Direction: Dr. Ernani Aguiar). At the Experimental Opera Society of UFRJ he was engaged for the opera productions of W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's Il Maestro di Musica.
Breno Quinderé is currently studying singing as a counter-tenor with Professor Gerd Türk at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Basel, Switzerland) in the field of Renaissance and Baroque music, where he also has the opportunity to work with Dominique Vellard in the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance repertoire, as well as singing master-classes with Margreet Honig and Andreas Scholl. In 2011, in this institute, he was one of two award-winning singing students who won the Marie-Louise Fund - the institute's most important scholarship.
Already during his studies Breno Quinderé participated in many ensembles and choirs, among them the Ensemble Corund (Lucerne), Zürcher Sing-Akademie and Kammerchor Stuttgart (Director: Frieder Bernius). As a solo singer he performed in 2012 J.S. Bach's Johannes-Passion (BWV 245) in two productions: with Ensemble Orlando Fribourg and with Chapelle de la Vigne (Freiburg). In the repertoire of the 14th to 16th centuries he has already participated in concerts of the Thélème Ensemble Basel (Director: Jean-Christophe Groffe), Ensemble Gilles Binchois (Director: Dominque Vellard) and the Oratori (coaching: Professor Anne Smith) - the Oratori had their debut concert 2013 at the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht. He is married to Florencia Menconi. |
