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Pianist, composer and arranger, Diones Correntino has developed a distinctive pianistic language that blends depth, sensitivity, and artistic knowledge drawing upon various performance traditions of solo piano.
His repertoire includes original compositions, improvisations, and reinterpretations in open dialogue with Brazilian music, jazz, and concert music.
He has distinguished himself among the leading Brazilian pianists, composers, and arrangers of his generation for his virtuoso performance and his unique way of recreating music as a pianist, composer, and improviser, moving with sophistication and technical mastery through the worlds of Brazilian music and classical music.
His album *Piano Solo*, recorded in Paris during the *Piano Solo Brasileiro* tour (2026), received widespread acclaim from music critics. On this album, Diones Correntino recorded some of his original compositions and arrangements based on significant themes from the Brazilian musical tradition.
With extensive national and international exposure on stages across South America, the United States, and Europe, highlights of his career include the *Piano Solo Brasileiro* project, as well as appearances at the Festival d’Avignon (France), the Jazz a la Calle festival (Uruguay), and the Guiomar Novaes Series (Rio de Janeiro), alongside university artistic residencies serving as both an educator and a guest concert artist.
In 2026, he received a scholarship from the Latin American Internationalization Program for faculty mobility (PILA) promoted by the Association of Universities of the Montevideo Group (AUGM). Through this program, he completed an artistic residency at the Higher Institute of Music (ISM) of the National University of the Littoral (UNL) in Santa Fe, Argentina. During this time, he was an international representative and invited Brazilian professor to teach in the undergraduate music program at UNL, promote academic activities, and give piano concerts.
In 2025, he toured South America, performing as a solo pianist in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and as a guest at the prestigious Jazz a la Calle festival in Mercedes during the 17th Encuentro Internacional de Músicos, which takes place annually in Uruguay. This event features international artists from around the world who are prominent in the jazz and improvised music scene.
Also in 2025, he participated in the Brazil France season at the Avignon Festival, one of the largest theater festivals in the world, marking the 200th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Brazil and France. On this occasion, Correntino performed as pianist for the theatrical show La Roue de la Vie alongside actor, singer, director, and dancer Antônio Interlandi and pianist, arranger, and musical director Mathieu el Fassi. (Project supported by the Aldir Blanc Law and by the Government of the State of Goiás.
His experience as an international artist includes concerts in cities in the USA and Europe, especially in Paris, where he completed part of his doctorate as an international Brazilian scholarship holder (Capes Print Scholarship-Unicamp) in the music and musicology department of the University of Paris – Sorbonne – Paris IV. In the United States, he performed at the prestigious Brazilian Music Festival at North Texas University – Denton.
In 2023, he was a guest speaker at the 1st International Popular Piano Festival promoted by Terra da Música and Free Note, an event that featured some of the leading Brazilian and foreign pianists and composers, including Leandro Braga, Claudio Dauelsberg, Fábio Torres, Duo Gisbranco, Heloísa Fernandes, André Marques, Débora Gurgel, Cláudia Castelo Branco and Turi Collura. At this meeting, he had the opportunity to discuss topics related to composition and arrangement for solo piano and creative studies in his practice as a pianist/composer.
In 2015, he released the album Diones Correntino Quarteto- Som Mestiço. The album, which also featured saxophonist Mauro Senise on the track "Pianeiros", was highlighted among the 30 independent CD nominations of 2015, in the instrumental music genre, according to music critic Carlos Calado (author of the books Jazz ao Vivo (1989), O Jazz como Espetáculo (1990), organizer of the Folha Clássicos do Jazz Collection (2007), author of the Música de Alma Negra blog, contributor to the Folha de São Paulo newspaper).
Academic
Diones Correntino holds a doctorate in music from the Institute of the Arts at UNICAMP. He was an international scholarship recipient (UNICAMP-CAPES-PrInt), spending one year of his doctoral studies at the Department of Music and Musicology at the University of Paris – Sorbonne – Paris IV. In addition to his artistic activities, he works as a tenured professor at the School of Music and Performing Arts of the Federal University of Goiás.
He holds a Master's degree in Music from the School of Music and Performing Arts at the Federal University of Goiás and a Bachelor's degree in Music (piano performance) from the same institution, having been tutored in classical piano and piano performance by pianist and professor Luiz Medalha. He completed the MPB and Jazz courses at the Tatuí Conservatory (2008), as well as classes in jazz and contemporary improvisation at the New England Conservatory in Boston, USA.
He has presented academic papers at national and international conferences and graduate seminars, notably the Séminaire Composition, Cognition, Apprentissage at Université Paris Sorbonne, Villa-Lobos Symposium at the School of Communication and Arts at USP, International Symposium on Musicology at the School of Music and Performing Arts at UFG, Experimental Seminars at Unicamp and Congress of the National Association for Research in Music.
