One of the most important South American pianists of international renown, Linda Bustani was a student of Arnaldo Estrella, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Having received a prize at fifteen years of age at the International Piano Competition Vianna da Mota, in Lisbon – and having won before the National Competitions of Salvador and Rio de Janeiro – Linda Bustani was invited by Iakov Zak to work under his orientation in the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, in Moscow, where she also studied with Elisso Virsaladze.

She received prizes in the International Competitions of Bratislava and Rio de Janeiro, and had her international career effectively launched as a consequence of her participation in the International Competition of Leeds, England. After that she gave concerts and recitals in several countries: Portugal, The Netherlands (Concertgebouw of Amsterdam), Belgium, Czech Republic (Czechoslovakia), Russia, Ukraine and Georgia (Soviet Union), Scotland, United Kingdom, Japan, Hungary, USA and in Latin America.

Linda Bustani was soloist of orchestras such as New Philharmonia, Bornemouth Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC Welsh, BBC Scottish, Hallé and Symphonic Bratislava, Brazilian Symphonic Orchestra (OSB), Pro Music Petrobras Orchestra (OPPM) and Symphonic Orchestra of the State of São Paulo (Osesp). She played under the direction of maestros Simon Rattle, Charles Groves, William Tausky, Anatoli Fistoulari, Louis Frémaux, Okko Kamu, Gunther Herbig, John Neschling, Isaac Karabitchevsky, Eleazar de Carvalho, Roberto Duarte, Henrique Morelenbaum, Alceo Bocchino, Roberto Tibiriçá, Ligia Amadio, among others.

The emotional commitment of the artist – transformation of his/her talent and energy in music – is a delicate phenomenon. In the beginning of the 1980s, the pianist decided to start teaching young pianists, and, mainly, to start seeking a deeper understanding of her own individuality.

Linda Bustani restarted her artistic activity as a mature interpreter, deeper and more demanding. Currently, she divides her time between the students in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo and an intense career as a soloist and member of chamber music groups, in Brazil and abroad.

The North American magazine “Fanfare” said about her last CD, launched in New York, by the label Connoisseur Society: “The phenomenal Brazilian pianist Linda Bustani offers what will probably be the most important interpretation of Kreisleriana by Schumann”.

In 2003 she won the Carlos Gomes Prize, the most important prize in Brazil, as the best pianist of the year. In 2004 she performed in Mexico, in Morocco and in England, receiving excellent criticism. From 2005 to 2008, besides important concerts in Brazil, she also performed in Buenos Aires, in England (Wigmore Hall) and in Lebanon.

The “Pravda” newspaper affirmed, on its first page, about her interpretation of Schumann: “Linda Bustani plays with the cords of her heart”.

“The best of all was seeing Gilberto Tinetti welcomed in the best room, by the best orchestra and by the best audience of the city...Tinetti is one of São Paulo’s musicians that give long and lucid life to this land perpetually in trance. The year he turns seventy, he continues playing as always, with elegance, clarity, finesse of spirit...Gilberto Tinetti received, at Sala São Paulo an acclamation more than just for so many years of commitment to the city and to music.”

Arthur Nestrovski, Folha de São Paulo, 31/8/02

The name GILBERTO TINETTI occupies a special place in the Brazilian musical panorama: a pianist of great personality and renowned merits, his multifaceted career has been developing through more than four decades of intense and continuing work.

He was born in 1932, in São Paulo, where he started his studies with the teacher Josephina De Felice, and later studying with Hans Bruch. He graduated from the Law College of USP in 1955. Later on, in Paris, he studied with Magdalena Tagliaferro and, in Germany, with Friedrich Wührer. He attended Alfred Cortot’s interpretation courses. In 1959, he won the Competition of the Summer International Academia of Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. Since then, he has performed in several countries in Europe and Latin America and in the United States. He performed his first audition of the Concert nr. 4 for piano and orchestra by Villa-Lobos (1970) in Paris, and was invited to be a member of the jury of the Music Competition of Canada (1977 and 1987).

In Brazil, he performs regularly as a soloist with the main orchestras, as recitalist an in chamber music concerts, and is considered by the critics as on of the best Brazilian chamber music players.

With Brazilian Trio (Trio Brasileiro), founded in 1975 by Tinetti, Lehninger and Clips, he recorded 5 LPs and 1 CD for the labels Philips and Eldorado. The CD he recorded with the Brazilian cellist Antonio Meneses was considered the best classic launching of 1985. In 2004, another CD of the Brazilian Trio was launched, this time for the label Lami, dedicated to the contemporary Brazilian repertoire.

He has been an important personality in the education of young Brazilian pianists. He was professor and artistic director of the Pro Arte Music Workshops of São Paulo. From 1980 to 2002, he was a professor at the Music Department of the School of Communications and Arts of USP. During these fifty years of pedagogic work, he has formed several generations of professional pianists, many of them working in Brazil and abroad. Since 1986 he has presented programs dedicated to the piano repertoire, through Rádio Cultura FM of São Paulo.

In 1995 and 1996 he played with success in the United States and Italy. In 1997 he received from the State Secretary of Culture of São Paulo the Carlos Gomes Prize, in the category of “best instrumental soloist”. In 1998 he received from the Rotary Club of São Paulo the title of “personality of the year” in music. In 1999 he received again the Carlos Gomes Prize, this time as pianist of the Brazilian Trio, considered the “best chamber group”. In 2000, he performed in France with the Brazilian Trio. In 2005, the Carlos Gomes Prize was again given to the Brazilian Trio, for its 30 years of uninterrupted artistic activities.