Humberto-Vinicios JUSTINO
Humberto-Vinicios ʺJustinoʺ, Franco-Brazilian, born and raised in São Paulo.
Justino began his studies of music and cello in a Protestant church. At the age of 14 he went to the Universidade Livre de Música do Estado de São Paulo to study music.
At the age of 18 he passed a competition where he was trained as a sergeant cellist for the Brazilian Army; during these years in the Barasileiro Army he received six (6) prizes, including the Military Musician's Medal and the UN Medal.
In 2009 he joined the elite troops of the French army in the French Foreign Legion as a musician in the competition. Parallel to his work as a military musician, he studied at the École Normale de Musique with Maestro Dominique Rouits and cello at the National Conservatory of Music in Meudon, both institutions based in Paris. He has also studied at the University of Paris VIII and has written on "Music and Trance in Brazilian Pentecostalism" as a researcher in ethnomusicology. »
He was assistant maestro of FILAFRO - Afro-Brazilian Philharmonic Orchestra and teaches at the Municipal Conservatory of Cergy and the Maurice Ravel Conservatory in Saint ouen l'aumone in France. As a cello teacher he has conquered a unique space.
Since 2018 he has been working in the diplomatic service at Itamaraty and the international organizations in Paris. He is a commentator on art and culture for the Brazilian Society for Art and Culture.
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