Duo Siqueira Lima

FERNANDO LIMA

He was born in 1978 in Sao Bento Abade, a small city in Minas Gerais´s state. He had a very musical childhood through his family that cultivate the regional musical culture. He became interested in classical guitar at the age of 12 and began studying with Luis Carlos da Silva, continuing with Marcelino Diogo Leite at the Conservatory “Maestro  Marciliano Braga " in Varginha (MG) and his main master teacher was Henrique Pinto.
 

He completed his Bachelors Degree at the “Faculdade de Artes Alcantara Machado” (FAAM) in São Paulo as well as having participated in numerous guitar concourses and seminars in Brazil and abroad, having attended lessons and masterclasses with important musicians like Fabio Zanon , Luis Cláudio Ferreira, Paulo Martelli, Sergio Abreu, John Duarte, among others.
 

He participated in several national and international competitions and was awarded in all of them. The most importants are: “II International Guitar Competition Pro-Música/SESC” in Caxias do Sul (RS), “John Duarte Guitar Competition” (Austria), “National Guitar Competition Souza Lima” and “Musicalis National Guitar Competition” in São Paulo.
 

He was highlighted at his generation when he did his first tour in Europe. His debut in London, at “Bolivar Hall Guitar Festival”, received excellent reviews from one of the most important magazines in the world of the guitar, the "Classical Guitar Magazine" publishing: "We listened a guitarist with exceptional technical skills and musical elegance".
 

In sequence he was at the “International Guitar Festival Rust” (Austria), “Festival de Guitare de Lausanne” (Switzerland) and “II Guitar Festival Irun” (Spain). The Spanish critic wrote: " Fernando Lima points out as one of the future great masters of the guitar’s world" (Spain , 2002). At the age of 22 he debuted at Quaternaglia Guitar Quartet, in which he were for five years as the first guitar of the group. With the quartet recorded two CDs and a DVD and performed throughout Brazil and the United States in important guitar and chamber music series as “Guitarists of the World”, “Allegro Guitar Series”, “Chamber Music Sedona”, “Friends of Music” and “Round Top Festival Hill”.
 

Currently, his main artistic activity is the Duo Siqueira Lima, performing with the Uruguayan guitarist Cecilia Siqueira. The duo is acclaimed as one of the most important revelations in the international guitar cenary nowadays, having already toured to over 20 countries. Their European tours includes concerts in prominent theaters and festivals like the “Festival International de Guitare de Paris” (France), “Kongresowa Palace” (Warsaw , Poland); “International Musical Festival” (Kaluga, Russia); “Jazz Festival” (St. Petersburg , Russia), “Festival de Guitare de Lausanne” (Lausanne , Switzerland), “Festival du Monde Guitares” (Perpignan - France), “National Concert Hall” and “Festival of World Cultures”, (Dublin , Ireland), “Palazzina Liberty” (Milan - Italy) , Tchaikovsky Hall (Gomel, Belarus), “Castle Ësterhaze” (Fertod -Hungary), among others .
 

Besides soloist and chamber musician, Fernando develops a profound work as a repertoire researcher and arranger.

Photographer: Tamer Aşan