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James Correa (1968 - Porto Alegre, Brazil), composer, sound designer and guitarist. Mr. Correa has a Master degree in composition and  a Bachelor in guitar. In 2005 Correa was awarded with two scholarships, one from Fulbright and another from SUNY at Buffalo to do his PhD in Musical Composition. His works have been performed in Argentina, United States, Canada, Europe, and in the most important concert halls and Contemporary Music Festivals in Brazil. His music has being performed by ensembles and soloists such as Ensemble Orpheus, Ice, Barton Workshop, North/South Consonance, Percussion Ensemble PIAP, Orquestra do Teatro Sao Pedro, Magnus Andersson, Catarina Domenici.

Correa was co-founder and the first director of NMC-POA (a centre for information and promotion of contemporary music in Porto Alegre-Brazil); Associated Composer in the CME (Electronic Music Centre at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil); founder member of the multimedia ensemble Sons Transgenicos (Transgenic Sounds); and co-founder of the International Multimedia Festival Multiple-X.

In 1999 James Correa was one of the 20 composers of all Americas selected by the ensemble North/South Consonance for the season 2000. In the year of 2001 he was one of the five chosen composers to represent Brazil in the festival Syntèse 2001 promoted by the Institut International Musique Electroacustique de Bourges, France. James Correa have been a guest composer for two years in the Heidelberg College New Music Festival in Tiffen, Ohio, and in many contemporary music festivals in Brazil, he was also member of the artistic committee of ENCOMPOR (a biannual contemporary music festival in Porto Alegre, Brazil). Since 2003 he is working in collaboration with the visual artists Marcelo Gobatto (as in the video-sound installation The Forbidden Word - 2004, and the documentary Olhares da Cidade) and Claudia Paim.

Together with his work as a composer, James Correa is developing a career as performer of contemporary music. Currently he lives in Buffalo, NY where he is working on his PhD in composition and playing in the snow with his son. His catalog includes works for soloists, chamber music, orchestra, electronics and multimedia.