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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. Alongside his artistic activities, currently he works as an assistant teacher at the School of Music and Drama of the Federal University of Goiás-Brazil.
He has stood out among the main Brazilian pianists, composers and arrangers of his generation for his virtuosic performance and his singularity of recreation as a pianist.
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).
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 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 2025 he toured South America performing as a Solo Pianist in the city of Buenos Aires in Argentina and as a guest at the prestigious Jazz a la Calle festival in the city of Mercedes during the 17th Encuentro Internacional de Músicos that takes place annually in Uruguay, achieving great public success and recognition for his work as a pianist, composer and arranger.
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 main 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 Quartet- Som Mestiço. The album, which also featured the saxophonist Mauro Senise on the track "Pianeiros", was praised and recommended as one of the greatest Cds of the year of 2015, in the Brazilian instrumental music genre, by the music critic Carlos Calado, author of the blog Música de Alma Negra and journalist of the journal Folha de São Paulo.
He holds a doctor degree from UNICAMP's Institute of Art. In 2020, with the support of the Brazilian Government (CAPES-PrInt scholarship), he studied musicology at the Institute of Research in Musicology at Sorbonne Université-Lettres Sorbonne- Paris IV-(Centre de Recherche Internacional sur le Jazz et les Musiques Audiotactiles) under guided by Dr.Laurent Cugny.
