Micael Gustavo Pancrácio dos Santos

Micael Pancrácio is a flamenco guitarist, classical guitarist, teacher, researcher and cultural manager. Bachelor's degree in guitar from UEMG (State University of Minas Gerais), degree in music from CEUCLAR (Centro Universitário Claretiano), specialist in cultural management from SENAC-SP, master's and doctoral student in music from UNICAMP (State University of Campinas). He studied flamenco guitar in Spain and South America with great masters of the instrument such as guitarists El Entri (Madrid), Aquilino Jimenez (Madrid), Jorge El Pisao (Granada), Andrés Pituquete (Chile), Javier Conde (Cáceres), Juan Gomez Chicuelo (Barcelona), Paco Serrano (Córdoba) and Antonio Rey (Madrid). During his career as a classical guitarist, he studied with renowned national and international musicians such as Henrique Pinto (Brazil), Mario Ulloa (Costa Rica) and Eduardo Isaac (Argentina). He performed as a flamenco guitarist in the main shows, tablaos, concerts, events and major festivals of the flamenco scene in Brazil, such as Feira Flamenca in São Paulo-SP, Inmersión in Campinas-SP and the International Flamenco Festival in São José dos Campos -SP, accompanying several Brazilian artists and big international names such as, for example, dancers from the renowned Farruco family, Manoel Fernandez Montoya "El Carpeta, Antonio Fernandez Montoya "Farru" and Juan Manuel Fernández Montoya "Farruquito". In addition to these artists, Micael Pancrácio also accompanied singers such as Jesule de Utrera (Seville), Maximiliano Serral (Argentina), Eugenio Romero (Argentina), Jesus Corbacho (Huelva), Trini de la Isla (Cádiz), José Anillo (Cádiz), Ezequiel Montoya (Sevilla) and Gabriel de La Tomasa (Sevilla); dancers such as Paco Hidalgo (Sevilla), Antonio Molina El Choro (Huelva), Jesus Carmona (Barcelona); and dancers Natalia Meiriño (Argentina), Inmaculada Ortega (Jerez de La Frontera), La Choni (Sevilla), Sara Nieto (Madrid) and Lucia Alvarez La Piñona (Jimena de la Frontera). He was cultural manager of the music area at Sesc-MG and cultural director of Peña Flamenca Brasil in São Paulo-SP, where he conceived and carried out several cultural products such as the Tonadas y Sonantas educational concert series, the Momento Musical interviews and the conferences Flamenco Dialogues research project, developed together with the main Brazilian flamenco researchers and the great Spanish musicologist Faustino Nuñez. Between 2018 and 2022, he was a researcher on the FAPESP project O Musicar Local: new trails for ethnomusicology (2016/05318-7), jointly developed by the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), by the Institute of Brazilian Studies (IEB) and the University of São Paulo (USP). As a teacher, in addition to having given several workshops at national and international festivals, he works as an extension teacher at the School of Music of the University of the State of Minas Gerais (UEMG) and at the Colégio Espanhol Santa Maria Minas, teaching collective guitar courses and flamenco guitar; and as an assistant professor at the Institute of Arts of the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), teaching co-teaching classes with the professor. Dr. Suzel Ana Reily, in subjects such as Scientific Initiation, Chamber Music, Industrialized Music and History and Language of Popular Music. Currently, Micael Pancrácio is dedicated to his doctorate in music at the Department of Ethnomusicology of the Institute of Arts of the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), where he seeks to research flamenco from an Atlantic and quantum perspective, focusing on the American dimension of its performance practices. , improvisation and interactive musical language. He has experience in the area of #8203;#8203;Arts and Music, with an emphasis on performance, research, ethnomusicology, musical education, cultural project management, artistic production, soundtrack composition and musical direction of dance shows. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)