Jocy De Oliveira

Jocy de Oliveira (born 1936) is a Brazilian composer, pianist and multimedia artist, born in Curitiba and raised in São Paulo. She began as a concert pianist, working with Igor Stravinsky and John Cage, and went on to write electroacoustic and multimedia works for stage and video. Her album Estórias para voz, instrumentos acústicos e eletrônicos gathers pieces for voice, acoustic instruments and electronics. Jocy de Oliveira gave first performances of music by Cage and Cláudio Santoro, and Luciano Berio and Iannis Xenakis wrote works for her.