EDSON ZAMPRONHA (Rio de Janeiro, 1963) has received two awards from the São Paulo Association of Art Criticism, Brazil. In 2005 he has won together with SCIArts Group the 6th Sergio Motta Award, the most outstanding prize on Art and Technology in Brazil, for the sound installation Poetic Attractor.
He has received comissions from different groups and institutions as the Museum for the Applied arts (Cologne, Germany) for the Cultural Activities during the Soccer World Cup 2006; from the dress designer María Lafuente for her catwalk show at the Pasarela Cibeles 2006 (Madrid, Spain), and from the São Paulo State Symphonic Band for the 100th Anniversary of the São Paulo State Gallery in 2005 (São Paulo, Brazil).
His works have been performed in outstanding concert rooms, as at the Auditorio 400 - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, at the CBSO Centre in Birmingham (UK), and at the Municipal Theater of São Paulo, Brazil.
His compositions are included in two CDs fully dedicated to his work and in other fifteen CDs released by different record labels and institutions. He is the author of the book Notation, Representation and Composition - a new paradigm in musical writing (in portuguese).
He is Ph.D. in Communication and Semiotics - Arts - by the Pontifical Cathollic University of São Paulo. He has developed a Post-Doctorate research on Music at the University of Helsinky, Finland. He is an Invited Professor at the History and Music Science Department at the Valladolid University, Spain.
