Isaac William Kerr

Isaac William Kerr is a Spanish-Brazilian musicologist and conductor. Born in São Paulo (Brazil), he currently works in Valencia, Spain, where he lives with his family and is pursuing a postdoctoral degree at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (musicology).Isaac has a specialization in Didactic-Pedagogical Processes in Distance Education from the Virtual University of the State of São Paulo-UNIVESP (2022).During his career, he participated as a jury in more than a dozen monograph thesis defense panels for undergraduate students. He supervised eight monographs and offered the subject of research methodologies at the Federal University of Goias.Isaac graduated in conducting from the Institute of Arts at the University of Campinas - Brazil (2013) and completed his master's degree in musicology (2016) and doctorate in musicology (2022) from the same university (University of Campinas). His research focuses on opera on the following topics: Italian opera, opera in Latin America, Antônio Carlos Gomes, vocality, orchestration and musical analysis. In 2017 and 2018 he served as Assistant Professor at the Federal University of Goiás-Brazil. During this same period he was invited to act as associate conductor of the Goiânia Symphony Orchestra.His relationship with Contemporary Music also found space with composers residing in Campinas. Isaac Kerr played Marco Padilha (2017) and was responsible for the Brazilian premiere of Le Messager de L'Automne, by José Augusto Mannis (2016), among other collaborations. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)