ANDRÉ VIDAL SAMPAIO (b. 1971 in Fortaleza, Brazil) is a singer, teacher and composer. He studied with Francisco Frias at the Escola de Música de Brasília, appearing as a soloist with leading choirs of that city, in roles including Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Haydn's Creation, Debussy's L'Enfant Prodigue, Schubert's Mass in G and Orff's Carmina Burana.

His post-graduate study was at the Royal Academy of Music in London (1997-1999) with Glenville Hargreaves, Jonathan Papp, and Ian Partridge, among others. Here he became particularly interested in ancient music, and the chamber and concert repertory. His solo appearances while in the United Kingdom included Handel's Messiah, Bach's St. John Passion and Christmas Oratorio, Honegger's King David, Rossini's Petite Messe Solenelle, Mozart's Requiem and, notably, the role of Alexande the Great in the first London 'revival' of Handel's opera Poro.

On his return to Fortaleza he engaged in chamber recitals focussing on Brazilian and Portuguese songs and Mexican baroque, and began to make some of his own guitar arrangements. With the Eleazar de Carvalho Chamber Orchestra he was the soloist in Bach's Easter Oratorio, and in a program of the songs of Alberto Nepomuceno, for which he wrote the orchestrations.

Recent activities have included teaching voice, directing, arranging and composing. He has directed the vocal group Macho Pero No Mucho, Madrigal Euterpe, and the vocal group Moenda de Canto. In 2001 he was vocal advisor for the Choir of the State University of Ceará, appearing with them as tenor soloist in Bach's Cantata BWV 55.

He is currently a teacher of voice (Canto Erudito) in the School of Music of Brasilia (Escola de Música de Brasília), and actively adding the composition of choral works to his distinguished list of achievements. Cantus Quercus Press is pleased to be his first choral publisher.

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