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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

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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.
BCGC Official Page
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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. 
Musica Sem Nome Official Page

 

 

 

 

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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.
AssoVio Vertentes Facebook Page