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Diones Correntino is a Brazilian musician with different backgrounds. As a musician he seeks to direct his performance to different artistic fields by exploring interpretation, composition and improvisation based on his originals and recreations with the repertoire of the Brazilian Music and other genres.
His repertoire includes original compositions, improvisation and recreations based on repertoire from the rich legacy of Brazilian music merged with others genres.
He has stood out among the main Brazilian pianists, composers and arrangers of his generation for his virtuosic performance and his uniqueness in recreating as a pianist, combining technique, sophistication and refined sound. These qualities have made Diones Correntino one of the greatest names in Brazilian piano and Brazilian instrumental music.
He performed in several cities in Brazil as a solo pianist, in a group and in a trio with a classical jazz formation in piano, contrabass and drums, featuring the Casa Thomas Jefferson (Brasília) and the Série Instrumental Guiomar Novaes promoted by the Sala Cecília Meireles (Rio de Janeiro).
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 PhD in Music from the Institute of Arts at UNICAMP. He received a Brazilian international scholarship (UNICAMP-CAPES-PrInt scholarship) to pursue part of his doctorate in the Department of Music and Musicology at the University of Paris – Sorbonne – Paris IV.
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.
