Luiz Fernando Lopes
Luiz Fernando Lopes is currently finishing his Ph.D. in musicology at Indiana University with a dissertation focusing on problems of authenticity and chronology in the works of Heitor Villa-Lobos. He has been a visiting lecturer at Skidmore College and at Indiana University, where he has also worked as acting assistant director of the Latin American Music Center. He has presented papers at the national meetings of the American Musicological Society, Society for American Music, and College Music Society, as well as the AMS Midwest chapter and the International Villa-Lobos Conference in Paris, among others. His publications on music from Latin America and the Iberian Pensinsula include articles in the Reader's Guide to Music: History, Theory, Criticism, the International Dictionary of Black Composeers, Resound: A Newsletter of the Archives of Traditional Music, and the 2008 edition of the Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. He has degrees from Universidade do Rio de Janeiro, the University of Michigan, and Indiana University. He is also interested in opera and has published a limited edition book on baritone Harold Bennett Challis, the first American to sing the title role in Der fliegende Holländer in Bayreuth.
Luiz Fernando Lopes can be reached at the following address
Latin American Music Center
Music Library, Room M285
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
Bloomington IN 47405Tel: (812) 855 2991
Fax: (812) 855 4936
lflopes[at]indiana.edu
Last updated: 20 November, 2008
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