Silvio Barbato

He was the musical director of the film Villa-Lobos – Uma Vida de Paixão, and was awarded the 2nd Grande Prêmio Cinema Brasil, in the category Best Score.

In 2006 he directed the first European performance of the opera "Colombo", symphonic coral poem in four acts by Albino Falanca, music by Antônio Carlos Gomes, at Teatro Massimo Bellini of Catania.

In March 2009 at the International Mugham Festival he conducted symphonic mugams of Fikret Amirov in Philharmonic Hall of Baku, Azerbaijan.

[7] On 1 June 2008, he conducted the "Camerata Brasil" of Brasília in the concert "Tribute to Pavarotti", with the participation of Luciana Tavares, Thiago Arancam, Andreas Kisser and Fernanda Abreu.

[8] In November he conducted the world premiere, in pocket version, of his second opera, "Carlos Chagas" in the Sala Palestrina of Palazzo Pamphilj in Rome,[9] in the presence of many members of the "Pontificia Accademia delle Scienze" and of eight Nobel laureates.

During his life he promoted the works of his teacher Claudio Santoro whose music he regarded as "indisputably composed in the mould of Soviet socialist realism" on a par with Shostakovich.