Weverton Santos

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French horn player and singer.

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Biografia - Biography

Weverton Santos, a native of Sarzedo (MG) Brazil, began his musical studies in the Sarzedo Music Project with Maestro Joanir de Oliveira, receiving instruction from various teachers. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in horn performance from the State University of Minas Gerais, where he studied with Sarah Ramez and Sérgio Gomes. Still in Minas Gerais, he was a member of the Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra Academy under the guidance of Alma Maria Liebrecht. He earned his Master’s degree from the Eastman School of Music in New York (USA), where he studied with Peter Kurau. He is currently pursuing a Doctorate in horn performance at the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University (USA), studying horn with Professors Gail Williams and Jonathan Boen, and voice with Patrice Michaels.

He was a member of the Minas Gerais Symphony Orchestra for seven seasons. Among the concert series in which he participated is the Pop Symphonic series, where he had the opportunity to share the stage with important figures of Brazilian music such as Elba Ramalho, Lenini, Chico César, Luiz Melodia, Banda Cobra Coral, Leila Pinheiro. He has also performed with important national and international orchestras such as the Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, Virtuosi orchestra, Villa-Lobos orchestra, Opus orchestra, and Minas Barroca orchestra where participated in seminars and concerts at the Hochschule für Musik Rostock in Germany. In 2019, he was one of the Brazilians selected to join The Orchestra of the Americas, in which he toured Mexico. He also has participated in prestigious national and international festivals, such as the Portillo Festival in Chile, Marvão Academy in Portugal, where he studied with Radovan Vlatković in a series of masterclasses, the International Sesc Music Festival in Pelotas, the Sarzedo Music Festival, the Ouro Branco Music Festival, among others. In 2025, he was invited to be one of the Emerging Artists at the Victoria Bach Festival in Texas (USA), performing several recitals, which highlights promising and influential young musicians in today’s classical music scene.

As a teacher, he taught for six years in the Sarzedo Music Project horn studio (Brazil). He also taught secondary horn lessons to students at the Eastman School of Music (USA) with a teaching assistant scholarship, and he is currently a teaching assistant at Northwestern University (USA) through the scholarship program teaching secondary lessons, and has teaching several students in his private studio. He has received several awards, such as the Young Soloists Competition of the Minas Gerais Symphony Orchestra, the BDMG Young Musician competition (2014) as a soloist, and in 2015 as a member of a wind quintet. He also was invited to present masterclasses and lectures at Rio de Janeiro State University (Brazil).

In addition, he was awarded Third Prize in the International Orchestra Auditions Awards from the Samnium University of Music. As a guest soloist, he has performed with the Eastman Horn Choir (USA) and the Sarzedo Symphonic Band (MG). In addition to being a horn player, Weverton also performs as a countertenor. In Brazil, he studied with Sergio Anders and Daiana Melo and was a member of the Experimental Opera Group of UEMG, performing roles in small productions such as Le nozze di Figaro, Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Orfeo ed Euridice, and Hansel and Gretel. In 2025, he performed as Valletto in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea with the Northwestern Opera Theater (USA), where he earned his praise in the Chicago Classical Review, describing his performance as "radiated charisma through his vocalism and physical comedy". At the Eastman School of Music, he was a member of the Collegium Musicum Choir under Professor Dr. Paul O’Dette, and studied voice with Joelle Lachance. He currently studies voice with Patrice Michaels, voice faculty at Northwestern University, where he works on integrating vocal technique and resonance with horn performance, a central theme of his doctoral research project.