Daniel Inamorato

Education

He attended Music Conservatory at Fundação das Artes de São Caetano do Sul in Sao Paulo, Brazil that included studies in Piano, Rhythm, Harmony, Counterpoint, History, Sight-Singing, Choir and Chamber Music. He obtained a Bachelor in Music from the University of São Paulo in Brazil in Piano Performance. Professor Inamorato graduated from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music with a Performer Diploma and a Masters of Music in Piano Performance that included studies in Music History, Piano Accompaniment, Body Alignment, Vocal Technique, Chamber Music, Dance and Jazz.

Background

Daniel Inamorato is a multidisciplinary performing artist and pedagogue from Brazil. He moved to the United States in 2011 and has worked at Indiana University, DePauw University, Hampton University, Christopher Newport University, University of North Carolina School of the Arts; and now he is extremely honored to join the University of William & Mary as an Adjunct Lecturer of Applied Music. His areas of expertise include Piano Performance (Solo-Chamber-Collaborative); Harpsichord Performance; Japanese Butoh Dance; Opera Coach; Vocal Technique; Choral Conducting; Toy Piano Repertoire-Performance-Historic Research; Inclusive Education (also known as Special Needs Education); Neurodiversity within Pedagogic contexts; Political Performance Art and LGBTQ+ activism.

As a Recording Artist Mr. Inamorato tends to give emphasis to obscure repertoire that has been historically neglected. His recordings for Naxos, Acqua Records and IU Music Labels include extremely rare recordings from composers such as Uribe, Soro, Williams, Ortiz, Cortez, Dutra, and many other relevant composers from early 20th Century Latin America, as well as current composers with whom Mr. Inamorato partners to create new music and performance practices.

Working most frequently on the intersection of contemporary music and Butoh dance; Mr. Inamorato has studied avant-garde movements to develop his own language as a performer. His influences include Michael Duchamp, John Cage, Gilberto Mendes, Pina Bausch, Pat Steir, Arnold Schoenberg, Theodor Adorno, Carl Yung, Kazuo Ohno, Diego Piñon and many others that inspired generations of artists.

Topics of research include Archetypical Gestures; Process in Self-Managed Creative Arts; Chance Music; Aesthetics of Deconstruction and Liberation; Mirror Neurons in Music Education; Empowerment through Body Ritual Movement; Political Art; Dodecaphonism; Gestural Mutilation and Trauma-based Creative Processes. Mr. Inamorato now teaches other performers how to use historic references to build their own aesthetic values while still keeping a lively and empowered inner voice and sense of self.

At Indiana University, Mr. Inamorato received the highest awards the institution offers (a Jacobs Fellowship and a Barbera Scholarship) to become a graduate student at the prestigious Jacobs School of Music. With more than 40 first prizes in piano competitions, Mr. Inamorato played his first solo with an orchestra at age 9 and performs regularly as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher in the US, Brazil. Mexico and Canada.

He teaches classes in Piano Pedagogy and Inclusive Education, and has taught hundreds of music students of all ages that were diagnosed with Autism, Asperger’s syndrome, oppositional defiant disorder, ADHD, blindness, deafness, Down syndrome, dyspraxia, dyslexia and many other syndromes and physical disabilities. His sister Dr. Viviane Louro is the most acclaimed specialist and inclusive education in Latin America, and together they develop multiple programs to help teachers navigate inclusion.

Mr. Inamorato is the founder and director of The Toy Piano Sanctuary & Neurodiversity Music Institute; director and curator of A Teia de Idéias (a company that builds affordable pedagogic materials and assists people in adapting pedagogic materials and instruments in order to make it inclusive; based in Pernambuco, Brazil); and he started an online program to help Latin American students to apply to schools abroad. To sign up to one of his projects: https://www.patreon.com/danielinamorato

More information about Mr. Inamorato can be found at www.danielinamorato.com and please follow him on YouTube.

Academic Positions

Professor Inamorato has served on the faculty of Indiana University Jacobs School of Music as an Instructor, Practice Coach and Counselor. He has also served as a Staff Accompanist and Piano Instructor for DePauw University School of Music and DePauw University Community Program Music on the Square. He served as the Principal Pianist for the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra. In Brazil, he was the Piano Accompanist and Choir Conductor at Projeto Gurim and the International Music Festival of Londrina ; the Production Coordinator, Chamber Music Series for Fundacão Maria Luiza e Oscar Americano; and a member of the Music Faculty at Estacão Especial da Lapa.