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SERTÃO - 2024/Present - New York City and Metropolitan Area

SERTÃO is an idea of an art collective with the ultimate goal of fostering, publishing, and promoting its artists, based in New York City and the metropolitan area.  SERTÃO is targeted at artists with Hispanic/Brazilian backgrounds based in New York City and the metropolitan area, and/or artists that share such cultures and influences as part of their background, work, and/or point of interest. One of the goals is to provide a space to promote their work, regardless of their language being English, Spanish, or Portuguese. SERTÃO welcomes any media and artistic objects, such as literature, poetry, music, painting, comics, visual arts, dance, photography, sculpture, or any other kind of artistic manifestation. For its first year, SERTÃO will promote a series of editions in a sarau format, where all the attendants will share their artistic, cultural, and life views through their works, in joyful gatherings. For the upcoming years and editions, more information will be provided at the first meeting. 





Centro Cultural Yves Alves - 2024/Present - Tiradentes, Minas Gerais - Brazil
Centro Cultural Yves Alves is a cultural space and institution based in the historical region of Tiradentes, Minas Gerais, one of the most sought-after tourist places in Brazil. The institution has a music hall and a cultural space with a calendar that features from cinema festivals to theater and art shows. For the year of 2024, Octávio Deluchi was invited to be a collaborator of the space as the curator of the institution's own concert series, to start in July of 2024.

 


As a collaborator with Lira Ceciliana, in Prados, MInas Gerais

The Lira Ceciliana, Society of Musicians of Prados, a non-profit organization, whose origins date back, according to tradition, to the year 1858, is heir to the musical movement that developed in Minas Gerais from the 18th century onwards. It stands out for having kept alive over time the Mineira Sacred Music and the tradition of music bands, maintaining an uninterrupted secular practice. Motivated by the study and cultivation of music, it operates a choir, an orchestra, a music band, and a small music initiation school for the training of new members. Its activities, of a continuous nature, are directed towards both the past of its tradition and the future, aiming for diversity and eclecticism.

 

 

 

 







Festival de Musica de Prados - 2018/Currently -  Prados, Minas Gerais - Guest Soloist and instructor
One of the most traditional music festivals in Brazil, Prados Music Festival happens every winter.It is promoted by USP (São Paulo University) in partnership with Lira Ceciliana. As guest professor and artist, Octávio Deluchi has been teaching and performing as soloist, with the orchestra, in duos, trios, quartets, and chamber music groups. The festival is currently organized by Fabio Brucoli, and was created by the maestros Olivier Toni (1926-2017) and Adhemar Campos Filho (1926-1997). Some of the names who took part since its first edition are Flavia Toni, Mauro Brucoli, Gustavo Fontes, Fabio Chamma, Silvio Ferraz, Paulo Castagna, Fabio Zanon, Edelton Gloeden, Willy Correa de Oliveira, Antonio Carrasqueira, Pedro Paulo Salles, and more. 
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Violāo Na Lira & Mostra de Violão da Lira Ceciliana - 2017/Present - Prados, Minas Gerais - Coordinator

Violão na Lira is a a pedagogical project held in Prados, at Lira Ceciliana Institution. The institution dates back from the 19th century, and is one of the most traditional organizations in the country, historically speaking. The project started in 2017 under the guidance of professor Vladmir Agostini (UFSJ), and since 2018 it has an independent management, coordinated by Octávio Deluchi. Curently it serves 20+ students with free guitar lessons, featuring classical and popular music. They also participate of Mostra de Violão da Lira Ceciliana.

Mostra de Violão da Lira Ceciliana, or Lira Ceciliana Guitar Festival, is an event that was created in partnership with AssoVio Vertentes and soon took it off as a separate activity. It is a guitar festival that happens during the winter (July), featuring guest artists and local attractions. Its main goal is to create an environment that at the same time offers high-level quality of performances, with highlighting young students and new talents. The festival was promoted in 2017, 2018, 2022, and 2023. In 2024, the event will make its fifth edition. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


BCGC - Brazilian Classical Guitar Community - 2020/2021 - Coordinator
BCGC was an online collaborative platform developed and coordinated by Camilla Silva, Gabriele Leite,
Nicolas Porto Silva and Octávio Deluchi. They promoted, published and premiered online projects conceiving Brazilian guitarists, scholars, performers and its music. With guest collaborators, is a project who bonds people during social distancing time. It has premiered new works for guitar by João Luiz and Vicente Paschoal, and published important collections of works, featuring more than 80 guitarists over the globe.
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Música Sem Nome Podcast - 2020/2021 - Co-Producer
Produced by Heloisa Carbonera and Octávio Deluchi, Música sem Nome podcast was a podcast with three seasons, featuring guest musicians and artists from different backgrounds and experiences. The targeted audience includes new musicians, amateurs and curious people regarding the field. Many different themes are addressed, such as Performance, Hermeneutics, Musical Critic, among others, in order to expand the musical discussion and create bridges between fields inside the music world. 
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AssoVio Vertentes Guitar Association - 2016/2021 - Founder Member
AssoVio Vertentes, or Vertentes Guitar Association, is a guitar association founded in 2016 in São João Del-Rei, Brazil, by Adailson Araujo, Jefrey Andrade, Octávio Deluchi and Rodolfo Mantovani. Promoting the guitar and its related matters in the Vertentes region in Minas Gerais, the main event was the Circuito de Violão das Vertentes (Vertentes Guitar Festival). During that time, AssoVio Vertentes also promoted every other year the AssoVio Vertentes National Guitar Competition, featuring competitors from all regions of Brasil. Over the five years Octávio collaborated with the organization, more than 100 events were promoted, and some of the featured artists include Duo Siqueira-Lima (Fernando Lima & Cecília Siqueira), Marco Pereira, Gilson Antunes, Duo a Zero (Alexandre Gismonti & Jean Charnaux), Duo Vincens-Maciel (Guilherme Vincens & Michel Maciel), Paulo Inda, Duo Reis-Barbeitas (Carla Reis & Flavio Barbeitas), Moacyr Teixeira Neto, Marcelo Fernandes, Gabriele Leite, Sidney Molina, Thiago Colombo, Renato Serrano, Orlando Fraga, Waldir Jr., Eduardo Meirinhos, Luciano Cesar Morais, Daniel Wolff, Cristina Tourinho, among others.
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Southwest Virginia Classical Guitar Society - 2020/2021 - President

Southwest Virginia Classical Guitar Society is a Club under Radford University.  Octávio Deluchi was the president of the club from 2020 to 2021. The group promotes guitar concerts and activities at Radford University,. The biggest event in the calendar is the Radford International Guitar Festival, supported by the club, through grants.

 

GTA at Radford University - 2019/2021 - Graduate Teaching Assistant

Graduate Teaching Assistant at Radford University, under the guidance of Dr. Robert Trent. With a two-year duration, of the entire Master's degree program, he also holds the Dr. Robert S. Trent Endowed Classical Scholarship and Program Fund. and was nominated for the Foundation Awards Recipient.

 

ISAC - 2020/2021 - Event Coordinator

ISAC stands for International Student Affairs Council, a student organization at Radford University. The institutions is in charge for the connectivity, welfare and settlement of new international students at Radford University within New River Valley region. Promotes the RU International podcast, with international students and local people, addressing the concerns to the relationship and experiences as international community.RU International Official Page - Podcast

 

Prados Online - 2019/2020 - Columnist

From January 2019 to December 2020, Deluchi wrote as columnist for Prados Online website, one of the most relevant and accessed news portal in the Vertentes region. Writing about music, concerts, cultural environment and artistic exhibitions in the regions, was the only space addressed specifically for the matter in all the newspapers of the Vertentes region during that time.Prados Online Column

Domingo na Lira - 2018/2019 - Producer and Coordinator

Domingo na Lira was a concert music series promoted and coordinated by Octávio Deluchi in Prados, in partnership with the institution Lira Ceciliana. With 19 concerts between April 2018 and July 2019, offered free solo and chamber music concerts, through partnerships with other institutions and events. Some of the highlights were the last concert from "Flautas Gerais" festival, with Tadeu Coelho, Antonio Carlos Guimaraes, and more, and concerts with Paulo Eduardo (saxophone), Rodrigo Frade (flute), Mariana Jelen (viola), Duo Vincens-Vanucci (guitar-voice), Trio Clan (violin-cello-piano), and an EP and CD release with Duo Aduar 2018 season article - Domingo na Lira 

 

ALICE / O Chaos das 5 - 2018/2019 - Scholarship / Music Director

ALICE - ​Arts Lab in Interfaces, Computers, and Everything Else - is a research group lead and coordinated by Dr. Flavio Schiavoni under the Computer Science department at UFSJ ​ (Universidade Federal de São João Del-Rei). Some of the interests include artistic research, new technologies, ubiquitous music, and shows. In partnership with GTrans group, lead by Dr. Adilson Siqueira, resulted in the "5 O'Clock Chaos", a performatic event including music, technology, political issues, and visual arts. The show was awarded in different grants, and toured in cities such as Sao Paulo (USP - Sons de Silicio exhibition), Belo Horizonte (SAD - Digital Arts Seminar), São João del Rei, among other places. Deluchi was the musical director of the show, under guidance of Dr. Flavio Schiavoni, Dr. Adilson Siqueira and Dr. Rogerio Constante. The project resulted in academic research and articles as well. ALICE Website  

 

Música Viva - 2015/2018 - Guitar Instructor

Under the guidance of professor Vladmir Agostini, Música Viva was a project at UFSJ operating together with the Psychology department and the town hall of Santa Cruz de Minas. The project provided a guitar ensemble, string orchestra and a choral for the city, targeting kids and teenagers under social adverse conditions. Through a social-musical project, the aim was to change the environment of those children, in order to provide them more opportunities and access to education. 

UCA - Ukinha - 2013/2015 - Music Instructor

Being a tradition over the entire country, virtually every city in Brazil has some samba percussion groups organized for exclusive carnival purposes. From 2013 to 2015, Deluchi lead and coached  "Ukinha", the teenage version of UCA, one of the most traditional groups in the region, founded in 1962. Starting with the age of 8 up until 18, it featured roughly 50 members, performing different percussion instruments together, such as bumbotaroltamborimcaixarepinique, and more. 

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