Felipe Radicetti

Felipe Radicetti is a prize-winner composer for cinema, theater and advertising films. In 2009 he released his third CD "SagradoProfano", a song cycle where his music reflects the traditions and religious faith Afro-Brazilian.

He was born June 16, 1958 in Rio de Janeiro. In 2010 he moves to Brussels, Belgium, where he begins a new creation of musical theater project with the Belgian actress and director Francoise Berlanger and with the theatre company La Cerisae production. The running projects are: The Maurice Maeterlinck’s “The Intelligence of the Flowers”, to be presented in Rio de Janeiro, Brussels, Mons e Charleroi (Belgium) and “Meroe”,  to be created in June 2011, in a residence at Villa Medicis, Rome, in partnership with the French composer francês Gilbert Nouno, from the IRCAM/Paris.

Activist since 2005 in the cultural and musical, he received the "Top of Mind 2008 Editor's Choice of the journal Música&Mercado for his campaign "Quero Educação Musical na Escola".

In 2008, his song "Medida" (SagradoProfano CD), lyrics by the poet Felipe Cerquize, has been nominated for best Latin Song at the Hollywood Music Awards (www.hollywoodmusicawards.org) in California.

Two of his electronic re-creations from Itamar Assumpção’s sons, were chosen for the collection of CDs Rumos Itaú Cultural Program 2007-2009 (distributed in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay).

In his first CD, " Homens Partidos " (2000), important names of MPB (Brazilian Popular Music scene) were represented there: Lô Borges, Geraldo Azevedo, Cláudio Nucci and Clara Sandroni.

His song "Moleque-Marraio" reaches the semi-finals of the Festival da Música Brasileira, (2000) - Rede Globo TV.

His second CD, "SuperLisa", featuring the singer Clarisse Grova, was released in Brazil and Japan in 2003. He was chosen by the critic of the newspaper O Globo, Hugo Sukman, as "the best CD Electronic MPB of the year”.

In 2007, Radicetti was the closing performing show of the Third International Festival Mar del Bossa, in Mar del Plata. During his second tour in Argentina, he played the piano with the singer Marianna Leporace (www.myspace.com / mariannaleporace) in a repertoire dedicated to Brazilian composer Baden Powell.
 
His latest creations for the theater are productions of  Companhia Ensaio Aberto (www.ensaioaberto.com) in 2009, "Sobre o Suicidio" from Karl Marx. In 2007, "Estação Terminal" presented at the Barbican Theatre - Spill Festival of London and the musical direction of the show "Havana Cafe" on a repertoire of Kurt Weill’s songs.

Radicetti continues to write for cinema. In 2009 for the Rejane Zilles’s film "Walachai" and in 2006 for the Rudi Lageman’s film "Anjos do Sol". (www.anjosdosol.com.br).
 
As classical music composer, Radicetti wrote the Cantata "O Interrogatório" (Die Ermittlung) for soprano, baritone, chorus and full orchestra, presented in 2005 under the conduction of Ricardo Rocha in the Sala Cecília Meireles - Rio de Janeiro and recorded on CD by Companhia Bachiana Brasileira (www.bachiana.com.br).