Luiz Fernando Vallim Lopes
Acting Assistant Director (2005-Present)
Research Coordinator and Visiting Lecturer
(2000-2005)
Ph.D. candidate in musicology, Indiana University; M.A. (musicology), Indiana University, 1995; M.M. (piano), The University of Michigan, 1993; B.M. (piano), Universidade do Rio de Janeiro, 1991. Research interests on twentieth-century music, nineteenth-century Italian opera, Villa-Lobos, musics and cultural history of Brazil in particular and of Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula in general.
Principal author of the book From Uncle Sam's "Corazoncito": The Life and Times and Harold Bennett Challis (1876-1955) (Bloomington: Indiana University School of Music, 2005), about one of the earliest baritones from the United States with a significant operatic career. Articles have appeared in Reader's Guide to Music: History, Theory, Criticism; International Dictionary of Black Composers; and Resound: A Newsletter of the Archives of Traditional Music. Created the indexes for A. Peter Brown's The Symphonic Repertoire, vols. II and IV. Wrote liner notes for two compact discs produced by the Latin American Music Center: Twentieth-Century Piano Music from Latin America and Third Annual Competition in the Performance of Music from Spain and Latin America, as well as many program notes for the IU Opera Theater (1994-present), among others.
Has received many awards such as the Tinker Foundation Research Grant for research in Rio de Janeiro; the Dissertation-Year Fellowship for writing "The Evolution of Heitor Villa-Lobos's Music: Sources, Style, and Reception," the Challis Fellowship for research in Italy, Switzerland, and France on American opera singer Benedetto Challis and Villa-Lobos; the American Musicological Society Minority Student Travel Fund, the CNPq Scholarship from the Brazilian Government; the Laura Boulton Junior Fellowship from the Archives of Traditional Music; and the Anthony and Olimpia Barbera Fellowship from the Latin American Music Center. Member of the American Musicological Society, the AMS Midwest Chapter, and the College Music Society. Has been Midwest Chapter Student Representative to the American Musicological Society Council (1999-2001).
Worked as Visiting Lecturer at Indiana University (2000-present) teaching the undergraduate survey of music from 1750 to the present, and graduate courses and seminars on Villa-Lobos and on the art, popular, and traditional musics of Latin America. Presented papers at "Cultural Intersections in Latin American Music: The Music of Tania León" (DePauw University, Greencastle, 2003), "International Villa-Lobos Conference" (Institut Culturel Finlandais, Paris, 2002), "Gamma-Ut Second Annual Conference" (Music Department, University of Texas at Austin, 2002), Colloquium Series (Musicology Department, IU, 2000 and 2002), "Brazil in an Inter-Disciplinary Context: 1500-2000" (Spanish and Portuguese Department, IU, 2000); and Noon Series (Ethnomusicology Institute, IU, 1999).
Born in Rio de Janeiro.
Luiz Lopes can be reached at the following address
Latin American Music Center
School of Music
Indiana University
Bloomington IN 47405Tel: (812) 855 2991
Fax: (812) 855 4936
lflopes @ indiana.edu
More information at:
http://ezinfo.ucs.indiana.edu/~lflopes/Home.html
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