Fernando Rocha
Performing with Computer Based Electronics
Electronic/Technology Clinic/Performance
Friday, 3:00 p.m.

Fernando Rocha has been professor of percussion at Minas Gerais Federal University in Brazil since 1998. He is currently completing his doctoral studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Rocha has a full scholarship from the Brazilian Agency Capes, and is a member of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music, Media, and Technology (CIRMMT). As a performer, he has premiered percussion works by composers such as Lewis Nielson, Almeida Prado, Sérgio Freire, Nicolas Gilbert, Brian Cherney, Geof Holbrook and Mario Alfaro. As a lecturer/performer, he has appeared in many festivals in Brazil as well as Argentina, America, Portugal, France and Canada. Recent appearances by Rocha include PASIC 2005, the 9th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (2006), and the “Roots and Rhizomes” Percussion Conference at University of California, San Diego (2007). In addition to working with contemporary music, Rocha has played jazz vibes with such renowned Brazilian musicians as flutist Mauro Rodrigues, drummer Nenen, and guitarist Magno Alexandre. In 1997, he was awarded a scholarship to study jazz vibes in New York, where he also played with Bobby Sanabria’s Big Band.

Sponsors

Yamaha | McGill University
CIRMMT (Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology)