The Brazilian pianist Luís Sarro expressed a musical interest when he was two years old and began piano lessons at the age of eight.  He studied at the institutions Academia Musical Fátima and Santa Cecília Musical Conservatory, completing his studies with Amilcar Zani, a Brazilian pianist. He has been composing since the age of twelve, although the opportunity for learning composition and harmony came only afterwards when he was twenty years old. His teacher at the time was the Brazilian composer Mauricio De Bonis.

His repertoire includes Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Franck, Grieg, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Ravel, Schubert, Schumann and Scriabin. He also likes to play neglected composers like Alkan, Catoire and Stenhammar. Among Brazilian composers, he has played Miguez, Nepomuceno and Villa-Lobos.

In 2006, he was one of the finalists at Projeto Nascente of the University of São Paulo . He played Chopin's Scherzo no 3.

Check his website at http://www.felipesarro.com




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