Julio Medaglia

Internationally awarded composer of more than 100 film soundtracks, and also an important inspiration for the Tropicalia movement, Júlio Medaglia is an active jazz and MPB arranger as well, working in several countries. He began his musical studies with Hans Joachim Koellreutter. In 1961, invited by the German government, Medaglia moved to Europe and studied symphonic conducting at the Freiburg Music College. Together with Rogério Duprat and Damiano Cozzella, Júlio Medaglia studied with Pierre Boulez, in France, and Karlheinz Stockhausen, in Germany -- in the same class as...