Jonathan Taylor de Oliveira

Jonathan Taylor de Oliveira is an active solo and chamber musician, accompanist, researcher, and professor at the Federal University of Rondônia in Brazil. In 2021 he premiered Steven Hartke?s ?Retumbante,? from Post-Modern Homages, Set I, as well as In This Light Without Air, Elegy for Czesława Kwoka, which he commissioned from the Brazilian composer Paulo Guicheney. Among other accomplishments, he was a guest artist for the 2021 Dallas New Music Virtual Festival, a finalist in the BGSU Concerto Competition and has won several prizes, including first prize at the Concurso Nacional de Piano ?Orestes Farinello.? As a researcher, he has given presentations at prestigious conferences throughout Brazil, such as ANPPOM (National Association for Post-Graduate Music Research) and PERFORMA ? Musical Performance and Artistic Research. In his dissertation Student Perceptions of Contemporary Music: Learning Commissioned Piano Works, he researched how learning commissioned music affected collegiate pianists? perceptions of contemporary music. Jonathan Taylor de Oliveira achieved his D.M.A. at Bowling Green State University and holds a M.M. and a B.M. degree, both in piano performance, from the Federal University of Goiás (Brazil).

Jonathan Taylor de Oliveira é pianista, correpetidor, educador, pesquisador e docente no curso de música da Universidade Federal de Rondônia. Em 2021 ele estreou a peça "Retumbante" de Steven Hartke, além de haver encomendado a peça "In This Light Without Air, Elegy for Czesława Kwoka", do compositor goiano Paulo Guicheney. Dentre suas realizações, ele foi artista convidado no Festival de Música Contemporânea de Dallas em 2021. Também recebeu o prêmio de primeiro lugar no Concurso Nacional de Piano ?Orestes Farinello?. Como pesquisador, tem apresentado trabalhos em congressos prestigiosos, dentre eles ANPPOM e PERFORMA. Em sua tese de doutorado "Student Perceptions of Contemporary Music: Learning Commissioned Piano Works", ele pesquisou como o aprendizado de peças encomendadas afetou a percepção sobre música contemporânea de alunos de piano do nível de graduação. Jonathan Taylor de Oliveira obteve o título de doutor em música com foco em performance pianística em Bowling Green State University - Ohio, EUA e os títulos de mestre em música e bacharel em música pela Universidade Federal de Goiás.