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Kilza Setti de Castro Lima (* 26 January 1932 in São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian composer, ethnomusicologist and social anthropologist.

Life

Kilza Setti studied piano at the Conservatório Dramático e Musical de São Paulo. After graduating and a few semesters of journalism, she received a scholarship from the São Paulo Conservatory of Theatre and Music to study composition and counterpoint under Camargo Guarnieri (1907-1993), one of Brazil’s most authoritative composers.

In 1967 she received a scholarship from Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon for musicological research in Portuguese villages. Here she researched the origins and development of the musical repertoire of the Brazilian Southeast.

In the 1970s she received prizes for ten of her compositions, including first prize in the composition competition The Brazilian Song.

In 1982, she was awarded a doctorate in social anthropology from the University of São Paulo. Kilza Setti researched the music of the Caiçara fishermen (European and Indian inhabitants of the south-east coast of Brazil), as well as the ritual music of the Guarani-Mbyá Indians from the state of São Paulo and the Timbira Indians from central Brazil. She is the initiator and director of the Timbira Indian Musical Sound Archive project and coordinator of Indian education projects.

Kilza Setti’s compositional work includes vocal choral and chamber music, but also works for instrumental ensembles and orchestra. Her research on the music of Brazilian Indian peoples has influenced her works.

Setti is a member of the International Council for Traditional Music – Columbia University, the Sociedade Brasileira de Música Contemporânea, the Sociedade Brasileira de Antropologia da Música (founding member), the Centro de Estudos de Sociologia da Arte, the Sociedade Brasileira de Musicologia, the Associação Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-graduação em Música (founding member), the editorial board of the journal African Music – Rhodes University, South Africa. She is also a member of the Centro de Estudos Americanos Fernando Pessoa, the Centro de Estudos de Sociologia da Arte – Universidade de São Paulo – (founding member) and the Board and Advisory Board for Ethnology of the Centro de Trabalho Indigenista de São Paulo. She holds a visiting professorship at the Federal University of Bahia. Setti is an elected member of the Academia Brasileira de Música, Chair 9.

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