Conrado Silva

Conrado Silva (b. Montevideo, Uruguay, 1940, d. San Pablo, Brazil, 2014), composer and educator, became interested in new music during the 1950s. Since 1969, Silva has lived in Brazil, where he is an associate professor in the Music Department of the University of Brasilia. He has been a major force in the development of electroacoustic music in Latin America, not only for his compositional and teaching activities but also because of the Courses for Contemporary Music (Cursos Latinoamericanos de Música Contemporánea) he created, which were landmarks of new music in the region and were held between 1971 and 1989 in various Latin American countries. He also founded several electronic music studios in Brazil: Brasilia University, 1969; University of São Paulo State, 1977; Santa Marcelina Arts School, 1985; and Syntesis, 1986.