Hudson Nogueira, was Born in Itapetininga in rural São Paulo State, Brazil. He grew up in the small city of Porangaba which is also located in rural São Paulo. At an early age, he began his studies and graduated from the Escola Superior de Música Mazarteum in São Paulo in 1997 with a Bachelors degree in clarinet performance. In 1995, he began his career as a composer with his first pieces written for chamber ensembles.
Edson Beltrami, born São Paulo, has received his early musical studies first with his father and after at the Conservatório de Tatuí with João Dias Carrasqueira, at the Flute course. He started playing with the Symphonic Orchestra of Tatuí at 1975, and since 1977 has been awarded several 1st prizes in Flute competitions.
Edmundo Villani-Côrtes was born in Juiz De Fora (Minas Gescis, Brasil) on 08/11/1930. His first introduction to music was through his father who played flute and his mother who played piano. As a young twelve year old boy, he played a small guitar, and guitar all from intuition. At seventeen he started his theoretical music studies, including the piano at the Conservatôrio Brasileiro de Mûsica in Rio de Janeiro, and completed them in 1954. By then he had already composed many compositions including a piano concerto, which he first performed with the Juiz de Fora Philharmonic Orchestra" directed by Maestro Max Gefter (1956).
Antonio Carlos Neves Campos was born in Tatui, Sâo Paulo, Brazil. His musical education began at the age of five and continued on to the Conservatory of Tatui, where he majored in piano in 1964.
In 1966, he won the Regional Competition of Piano in Massena New York USA. and attended the State University of New York at Potsdam and where he studied with Arthur Frackenpohl and Raymond Schinner at the Crane School of Music. Since 1984 he has been the well respected, Director of the Conservatory of Tatui, where he was teaching for several years.