Adriana Kayama
General Director
Adriana Giarola Kayama, Brazilian singer, has received critical and public acclaim in in Brazil and abroad. She received her bachelor’s degree in Composition and Conducting at UNICAMP (State University of Campinas), and with a scholarship from the Brazilian Ministry of Education’s Foundation - CAPES (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel) - she obtained her Master’s and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in Voice Performance at the University of Washington.
Ms. Kayama’s lifelong research project has been dedicated to the discovery, recovery and performance of the Brazilian art song.
Ms. Kayama was the head of the vocal program and voice professor at the Arts Institute at UNICAMP for over 40 years, where she taught voice, diction, vocal pedagogy and chamber music. She was the Undergraduate and Graduate Advisor for the Arts Institute as well as the Music Department at UNICAMP. She was also the Associate-Dean of UNICAMP’s Pro-Rectorate of Extension and Culture.
Ms. Kayama has performed throughout Brazil, North America in La Clemenza di Tito (Mozart), L’incoronazione di Poppea (Monteverdi), Les contes d’Hoffmann (Offenbach), Die Zauberflöte (Mozart) and Der Schauspieldirektor (Mozart). She also performed as a soloist in such major works as: Carmina Burana (Orff), Le Roi David (Honegger), The Celestial Country (Ives), Exultate Jubilate (Mozart) and Saul (Handel). Ms. Kayama has performed with the Symphonic Orchestra of Campinas, São Paulo State Orchestra, Jazz Symphonic Orchestra, UNICAMP Symphony Orchestra, University of Bahia Symphony Orchestra, University of Washington Orchestra, among others.
Ms. Kayama received the “Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo Young Soloist Award” in 1984 and was semifinalist at the XII International Voice Competition in Rio de Janeiro in 1985. Member of the Master Singers of São Paulo, this vocal quintet was awarded the prize "Best Vocal Ensemble 1991" by the São Paulo Association of Art Critics (APCA).
From 2003 to 2007 Ms. Kayama was the president of the National Association of Research and Graduate Studies in Music (ANPPOM).