Contemporary Writing student at Berklee College of Music. 

After decades working as a Physician (OffShore / Remote Site Doctor), I came to Boston last summer. I thought that was going to be a very interesting musical experience, but more than music, I learned a lot about diversity and life. People from all around the world, different ages and great professors made me feel that I’m in the best place I could be, the Berklee community. 

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I am 45 years old, and my major is Contemporary Writing and Production. I saved money to be here for one year and now if I have the opportunity to earn a scholarship, I will graduate and bring to my city, in the middle of Brazil, all I have learned here. I am really glad to have met Brian Lewis, John Wheatley, Joe Mulholland, Omar Thomas, John Baboian,  Mark Simos, Jennifer Fox, Pratt Bennett, Gilson Shachnick, David Howard, Mitch Haupers  and so many teachers that made me feel alive again with their thoughts and music experience. I am so happy, and with all my heart I will try to do my best to bring to my future students everything that I learned from you. Thanks a million! I live in a city in the center of Brazil, very far from Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, and my project is to start a music school/community over there. I will bring a new energetic Music school for Goiånia – Goiås _ Brazil. I am very interested in working with adults and kids who did not have the chance to study Music in regular school. I also hope to prepare new students for Berklee. Another goal is to build a Big Band and a Chorale and mix Brazilian and American Popular songs (Great American Song Book). A Master’s Degree is a dream for me, in maybe Social and Cultural Studies, with Music Education and Composition. After all, I really believe that Music can save lives more than medicine.