Cyro Delvizio

Cyro Delvizio is one of the leading guitarists, composers, and researchers of his generation. Having devoted his considerable skills to spreading Brazilian classical music to various audiences, he performed in all 27 Brazilian states (a total of 130 concerts) as part of the SESC Sonora Brazil 2013-14 Project with Duo Cancionâncias (with soprano Manuelai Camargo), an unforgettable human and musical journey.The above-mentioned Duo also won prizes as the "V Villa-Lobos Museum selection of young musicians" (2008) and "Art Circuit" (2011), sponsored by the Cultural Bureau of Rio de Janeiro, recorded independently their first CD, called "Saudades" (2013) and performed at the "Guitar Foundation of America International Convention 2016", the USA most prestigious classical guitar festival, where he also conducted classes.

As a soloist, he won first place in the "VI Selection of Young Talents of AV-Rio" (2008) and "V National guitar competition Fred Schneiter", receiving a CD recording in Mexico as an extra prize in this last one, where he made release tours in 2012, 2013 and 2014 of his first solo CD "Reminiscences from Brazil" (Tempus clasico).
Delvizio was a soloist with symphonic ensembles such as "Orquestra Sinfônica da URFJ", "Orquestra Sinfônica Municipal de Campo Grande", and also with choirs, playing Castelnuovo-Tedesco´s "Romancero Gitano", in many occasions. He also debuted works by Edino Krieger, Marco Pereira, Ricardo Tacuchian, Dimitri Cervo, and Ronaldo Miranda, among other authors.
As a composer, he won the "1st Composition contest of UNIRIO" (2008), and the 4th place in "Contest Oscar Niemeyer - 100 years" (UFRJ, 2008). His works were performed at the XVIII and XXIV "Contemporary Brazilian music Bienal" (2009, 2021), and also in the USA, Portugal, Finland, Japan, and France. His "Folk Suite No. 1" was premiered in 2020 by Orquestra Filarmônica de Goiás commissioned by the prominent British conductor Neil Thomson. In the same year delivered his "Forest Scenes" suite for recorder orchestra commissioned by Stuttgarter Blockflötenorchester, from Germany, soon to be premiered. During social isolation, he composed "The Plague" a small opera that first debuted as a remote video recording and later, in 2021, staged and streamed.
His "Divagações Intervalares" for piano and string orchestra was recently debuted in 2021 at the XXIV Contemporary Brazilian music Bienal. Delvizio tends to address social issues in his works, as in his "Indian Requiem, op. 33" for soloists, choir, and orchestra.
Delvizio is a Doctor in Arts (USP, 2019), Master in Musicology (UFRJ, 2011), and Bachelor in Classical Guitar (UFRJ, 2008) under the tutoring of Dr. Turibio Santos. His dissertation won the "FUNARTE Prize of Music Critic Production 2013" for publishing. The book "Agustín Barrios in Dreamland: the Amazing journey of a Paraguayan Guitarist Across Brazil" is available in Portuguese and English, and was presented at the "GFA International Convention 2015" at Oklahoma City, "New Mexico Classical Guitar Festival", "New Orleans International Guitar Festival", "Mangoré Series" (at Manaus, Brazil), among many others concerts and lectures.