Description
Brazilian clarinetist Iura de Rezende has appeared as a performing artist in venues throughout the United States, South America, and Europe. As soloist he has performed with the Basel Symphony Orchestra and the Neues Orchester Basel in Switzerland. Iura was a member of the OFICINA MUSICA VIVA New Music Ensemble, with whom he recorded several projects for broadcast television in Brazil, including Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du Temps, Luciano Berios' Sequenza IXa for clarinet, and Krzysztof Penderecki’s Quartet for clarinet and strings. Exploring the full spectrum of the classical clarinet repertoire, Iura also performs early music on historical instruments. In 2020, he won the FUNARTE (Brazilian National Foundation for the Arts) “RespirArte” prize for his video recording of Brahms' Clarinet Quintet op.115. In 2022 he was appointed assistant professor of clarinet at the University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign.