Rodolfo Botelho Vieira is a violinist from Azores

Azores

The Archipelago of the Azores is composed of nine volcanic islands situated in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, and is located about west from Lisbon and about east from the east coast of North America. The islands, and their economic exclusion zone, form the Autonomous Region of the...

, Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

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Earned his BM from Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra in Lisbon

Lisbon

Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...

, Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

, MM, CP and was finishing DM as scholarship recipient at Northwestern University

Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

 in violin and music technology where he also served as teaching assistant to Gerardo Ribeiro

Gerardo Ribeiro

Professor Gerardo Ribeiro , a world renowned concert violinist, had taught at numerous Universities after studies at the Juilliard School of Music with Ivan Galamian in New York City. He won numerous international competitions, and soloed with major world orchestras and venues...

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Prizewinner at Meadowmount School of Music

Meadowmount School of Music

The Meadowmount School of Music, founded in 1944 by Ivan Galamian, is a 7-week summer school in Westport in Upstate New York for accomplished young violinists, cellists, violists, and pianists training for professional careers in music. The students are required to practice for at least five hours...

 Chamber Music Competition as first violin of String Quartet, violin competitions Concurso RDP-Jovens Musicos, Julio Cardona International Competition. Vieira plays chamber music, and has had coaching with Guarneri String Quartet, Mathias Tacke (Vermeer Quartet

Vermeer Quartet

The Vermeer Quartet was a string quartet founded in 1969 at the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont and active until 2007.With performances in practically every major city in North and South America, Europe, the Far East, and Australia, the Vermeer Quartet achieved an international stature as one of...

), Gerardo Ribeiro, Hans Jensen, Patricia McCarty.

Featured as soloist with orchestras Era in Chicago, Academic Metropolitan Orchestra of Lisbon, Espinho Academic Orchestra. Performed for radio stations WFMT

WFMT

WFMT is an FM radio station in Chicago, Illinois, featuring a format of fine arts, classical music programming, and shows exploring such genres as folk and jazz). The station is managed by Window To The World Communications, Inc., owner of WTTW, one of Chicago's two Public Broadcasting Service ...

, RDP-A, Television stations RTP

Rádio e Televisão de Portugal

Rádio e Televisão de Portugal, S.A.,commonly known as RTP, is Portugal's public service broadcasting organization. It operates four terrestrial television channels and three national radio channels, as well as several satellite and cable offerings....

, SIC, RTP-A, RTP-I

RTP Internacional

RTP Internacional is the international television service of Rádio e Televisão de Portugal, the Portuguese public broadcaster...

. Served as concertmaster of the Conservatory Project Orchestra at Kennedy Center Washington, assistant concertmaster Civic Orchestra of Chicago, concertmaster of Latin Music Festival Symphony Orchestra, Tutti Chamber Orchestra.

Vieira has collaborated with student composers in Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

, NU Contemporary Music Ensemble, Latin Music Festival with US premieres and Lucerne Music Festival Academy

Lucerne Festival

- History :The festival was founded in 1938 with a series of concerts in the gardens of Wagner's villa conducted by Arturo Toscanini, who had formed an orchestra with members of different orchestras and soloists for the concert...

 in Switzerland

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

 under supervision of Pierre Boulez

Pierre Boulez

Pierre Boulez is a French composer of contemporary classical music, a pianist, and a conductor.-Early years:Boulez was born in Montbrison, Loire, France. As a child he began piano lessons and demonstrated aptitude in both music and mathematics...

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• Northwestern University
  Northwestern University School of Music
  The Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music, or Bienen School of Music, is an undergraduate and graduate institution devoted to musical performance and academics. Located on Northwestern University's campus in Evanston, Illinois, 12 miles north of downtown Chicago, the school was known as the...
  
   - (currently) DM candidate, Certificate in Performance, MM
• Northwestern University - Teaching Assistant
• Meadowmount School of Music
  Meadowmount School of Music
  The Meadowmount School of Music, founded in 1944 by Ivan Galamian, is a 7-week summer school in Westport in Upstate New York for accomplished young violinists, cellists, violists, and pianists training for professional careers in music. The students are required to practice for at least five hours...
  
  - Teaching Assistant