Anderson Lagoin Romero: A UGA TRUMPETER MOVES INTO THE
Spot light BY CYNTHIA ADAMS PHOTOS BY NANCY EVELYN
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NDERSON LAGOIN ROMERO, a doctoral student in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, took the stage in the Concerto Competition Winner’s Concert late February 2013 at the
Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall. When the musician stood beneath the stage lights, he was far from his physical home. Yet Romero’s second home is on stage, at home there since an early age. The accomplished artist began his performance life as an 11-year-old living in São Paulo, Brazil. “I did not come from a musical family, but one of my older brothers, André Romero, started to play the trumpet two years before me. He was my inspiration to start learning music,” the trumpeter explains.
Since childhood, he has played with the São Paulo Youth Symphonic Band, the University of São Paulo (USP) Chamber Orchestra, and the USP Brass Quintet. He has since played throughout Europe and the United States. “My first music teacher was Horácio dos Santos Júnior,” he recalls. “I started
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my undergraduate studies in Brazil in 2004 at the University of São Paulo. After finishing my undergrad I won an audition to play with the Conservatory of Tatui Symphony Orchestra (in Brazil).” Romero toured Italy and Switzerland playing Brazilian music with the USP Brass Quintet, and became the
principal trumpet for the Conservatory during the 2009 season. Romero left the conservatory when he won a scholarship from The University of Southern Mississippi. After completing preliminary English studies there he began graduate studies in trumpet performance and