André Gaby

André Alves Gaby is brazilian and born in Amazon. He began his music studies at the age of seven at the Carlos Gomes Conservatory, in Belém, Pará. After completing the conservatory, he joined the Bachelor of Music, qualification in piano, at the University of the State of Pará, where he finished the course in 2004.
Between 2005 and 2007 he was a temporary professor at the Federal University of Pará, teaching in the professional training course at the Escola de Música (EMUFPA) and the Licentiate Degree in Music.
In 2007 he was hired at EMUFPA as a professor of Harmony and Musical Perception.
In 2009 he completed a lato-sensu postgraduate course in Fundamentals of Creation in Music, a course focused on compositional languages ​​from the 20th and 21st centuries.
In 2010 he joined the Masters in Prepolyphony (Gregorian Chant) at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Turin, where he studied with Fulvio Rampi. He completed his course in 2012 and returned to Brazil, working in the management of EMUFPA as Teaching Coordinator and Deputy Director, between 2013 and 2018.
In 2015 he was a SANTANDER scholarship holder (Young Researchers Program) by the Academia de Bellas Artes San Fernando de Madrid with research on the Plainchant of Mercedarians from the Convent of Pará, having as responsible researcher Ismael Fernandez de la Cuesta.
He is currently a doctoral candidate at the State University of São Paulo, a course that started in 2019. His research topic continues to be the Plainchant of Mercedarians from the Convent of Pará, and his advisor is Prof. Dr. Paulo Castagna.
He is a visiting researcher at CESEM at the Grupo de Música Antiga as a fellow of the Doctoral Program Sandwich Abroad (PDSE) of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES, Brazil). The researcher responsible for hosting him at Universidade Nova de Lisboa is Prof. Dr. Manuel Pedro Ferreira.