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Campos do Jordão International Winter Festival

By Patricia Ribeiro, About.com

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Campos do Jordão International Winter Festival: Introduction

Photo: Rachel Guedes. Courtesy of Campos do Jordão International Winter Festival

The Campos do Jordão International Winter Festival, the largest classical music event in Latin America, brings great contemporary performers to Campos do Jordão, SP.

Attended by over 70,000 people, the festival, which takes place in July, is also a great opportunity for music students – in 2009, 146 scholarships were given to students from Brazil and abroad.

Artistic Director:

Roberto Minczuk is the artistic director of the Campos do Jordão International Winter Festival. He's also the artistic director and the primary conductor of the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra, Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro and the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra.

Minczuk has conducted philharmonic and symphony orchestras worldwide and released several albums, including a recording of the complete Bachianas Brasileiras by Villa-Lobos with the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra.

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