Interview with Professor and Violinist Paulo Bosisio

Abstract

The professor and violinist from Rio de Janeiro, Paulo Bosisio, has been a national reference for Brazilian violinists for nearly three decades. After a long period in Germany in the 1970s, studying and performing in various countries in Europe, Bosisio returned to Brazil and has since dedicated himself to the challenging mission of training violinists and violin teachers in our country. With this aim, he regularly travels to Curitiba (PR), Tatuí (SP), and Volta Redonda (RJ), where he teaches a highly sought-after class of students. In Rio de Janeiro, he is a professor at UNI-Rio and also takes private students who travel from various Brazilian states for his lessons. Additionally, he participates in various music festivals across the country, where he conducts practical classes and masterclasses, and gives daily lectures on topics related to the history, pedagogy, and performance of the violin. A deep connoisseur of a vast violin repertoire, with remarkable ease and ability to express himself verbally, as well as demonstrate his ideas on the violin with quality and objectivity, and still an active soloist and chamber musician, he had as his model one of the greatest names in the history of the violin – Max Rostal. It is about his relationship with this great master of the violin that we are conversing. Therefore, we have the privilege of recording the testimony of someone who knew him closely and was part of a golden era of violin pedagogy in the 20th century.