Brazilian recorder player Cléa Galhano is an internationally renowned performer of early, contemporary and Brazilian music.
Galhano has performed in the United States, Canada, South America and Europe as a chamber musician collaborating with recorder player Marion Verbruggen, Jacques Ogg, the Belladonna Baroque Quartet and Kingsbury Ensembles.
As a featured soloist, Galhano has worked with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, New World Symphony, Musical Offering and Lyra Baroque Orchestra. Among other important
music festivals, Ms. Galhano has performed at the Boston Early Music Festival, the Tage Alter Musik Festival in Germany and at Wigmore Hall in London, Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall and Merkin Hall in New York and Palazzo Santa Croce in Rome, always receiving acclaimed reviews.
She gave her Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall debut in May 2010 and her second Weil Hall recital on December 2013 with the international Cuban guitarist Rene Izquierdo.
Galhano studied in Brazil at Faculdade Santa Marcelina, the Royal Conservatory (The Hague), and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, earning a LASPAU, Fulbright Scholarship and support from the Dutch government. She is the Music Director of the Recorder Orchestra of the Midwest, and recently received the prestigious McKnight fellowship award, MSAB Cultural Collaborative and MSAB Arts Initiative.
Currently, she is a senior faculty member at Macalester College, Recorder Instructor at HPI at the Jacobs School of Music (IU) and HPI Academy Coordinator.
Ms. Galhano has eight recordings available on Dorian, Ten Thousand Lakes and the Eldorado labels. Clea is the recipient of the National Arts Associate of Sigma Alpha Iota and the American Recorder Society’s President’s Special Honor Award.