Kilza Setti de Castro Lima (born 26 January 1932) is a Brazilian ethnomusicologist, composer, and pianist.

Biography

Kilza Setti was born in Sao Paulo

São Paulo

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, Brazil

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. In 1953 she graduated from the Conservatorio Dramatico y Musical of Sao Paulo where she studied composition with Camargo Guarnieri

Camargo Guarnieri

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, and won scholarships for study in composition and research in ethnomusic at the Instituto Di Tella in Buenos Aires

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  She also earned a scholarship to the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon

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, Portugal

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, where she studied under anthropologist Michel Giacometti and composer Fernando Lopes Graça.

Setti graduated from the University of São Paulo in 1982 with a doctorate degree in social anthropology. She studied the music of the European-and Indian-born fishermen on the southeastern coast of Brazil and the ritual music of the Guarani-Mbyá and Timbira Indians of Central Brazil, and founded the Brazilian Association of Folklore.

Setti received awards for her compositions, including first prize in the composition competitions. She is a visiting professor at the Federal University of Bahia

Bahia

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and other universities.

Works

Kilza Setti is influenced by her study of folkloric music and composes for orchestra, chamber ensemble, solo instrument and voice. Selected works include:

• 1958 Dois Corais mistos: Obialá Koro Yemanjá Oto
• 1959 Balada do Rei the Sereias
• 1973 Poesia II
• 1982 Canoa em dois tempos
• 1982 Ser
• 1982 Memória
• 1962 Lenda do céu
• 1972 Lundu
• 1973 Jogo da Condessa
• 1990 Missa Caiçara
• 1955 Toada for piano
• 1958 Seis Peças em clave de Sol for piano
• 1972 Dois momentos for recorder
• 1958 Toada for orchestra
• 1961 Suíte for string orchestra, piccolo, flute, clarinet
• 1966 Folgança suite for orchestra
• 1999 Meditação sobre o Tietê

Her works have been recorded and issued on CD. She is the author of a book titled Voices of the Green Hell - Disenchanted Amazonia, 2003, ISBN 978-3000122385.