Renata Duarte

* in Brazil; recorder player and baroque oboist; studied in Brazil, Spain, France and the Netherlands; focus on the music of the 17th and 18th centuries. She received her first training at the Fundarte music and art school in southern Brazil in recorder, piano and flute; she had recorder lessons there with Lucia Carpena. After her studies in Brazil she went to Europe and studied with Pedro Memelsdorff at the Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya in Barcelona and with Pierre Hamon at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse de Lyon, where Patrick Beaugiraud introduced her to playing the baroque oboe; she then moved to Amsterdam to the class of Alfredo Bernardini. She teaches at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg and at the Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin. On the album Dreyer. Détry. Vivaldi: Sonatas for Solo Instruments and b.c., released by Cybele Records in 2019, she plays recorder and baroque oboe.