Arthur Villar, Piano

Pianist Arthur Villar was born in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) in June 1984. He began his studies in piano, chamber music, theory, and conducting in 2004, at the age of 21, at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and joined the piano studio of Miriam Grossman, a renowned Brazilian pianist and pedagogue. Among his achievements, he won first prize in the Souza Lima National Piano Competition in São Paulo (Brazil) in 2007 for his piano performance and musical excellence. In 2009, he performed Bach's twenty-four preludes and fugues at the Forum Internacional del Piano de Barcelona. In February 2008, Arthur Villar was granted a scholarship to pursue his Bachelor's degree in Piano Performance at the Hartt School (University of Hartford, CT) under the tutelage of Luiz de Moura Castro.