Ovanir Buosi

Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Ovanir Buosi studied with Sergio Burgani at the Sao Paulo State University-UNESP, where he received a Bachelors Degree in 1997. In the same year he became Principal Clarinet with the Sao Paulo State Symphony Orchestra (OSESP), a position he still holds today. In Brazil he has been successful in several competitions including the main prizes in the Brazil Young Soloists Competition, Weril Wind Prize, the Eldorado Music Prize and the RadioMEC Young Soloists National Competition. He has participated in masterclasses with Karl Leister, Antony Pay, Walter Boeykens and Michael Collins amongst others. As a soloist he has performed with the Campinas Symphony Orchestra, Southbank Sinfonia (London) and the Sao Paulo State Symphony Orchestra. In 2002 he performed at the Brazilian premiere of the Luciano Berio Concertino for clarinet and violin with OSESP. As well as regular duo performances with piano he has toured Europe and made recordings of Brazilian music with the Curitiba Wind Quintet.

Having received an award from the Brazilian Government in 2002, he took a one-year sabbatical from OSESP to study with Michael Collins at the Royal College of Music. While in England he performed regularly with London Winds in performances at the Cheltenham Festival, recordings for BBC Radio 3 and the 2004 BBC Proms. In London he was a member of the Southbank Sinfonia in 2004, having worked with the pianist and conductor Vladimir Askhenazy and Bernard Haitink amongst others.

As a Principal Clarinet with OSESP he has made recordings on the BIS label and taken part in tours around Germany, Switzerland, South America and within Brazil. He has also worked with many important international conductors and performers such as Kurt Masur, Paavo Berglund and Brazilian soloists as Alex Klein, Nelson Freire and Bruno Canino.

Ovanir Buosi changed to Peter Eaton International model clarinets in 2003. "I have found that the instruments have an excellent eveness across the registers which allows me to be more expressive without having to overcompensate for intonation irregularities. Especially when returning to solos I have played in the past on different instruments, it has been an entirely new experience! It has been a refreshing change to have instruments that have such reliability in the keywork and pads which is clearly the result of the excellent attention to detail in the craftsmanship."

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