Born in 1928 in Brusque, a city in the southern Brazilian State of Santa Catarina, Edino Krieger absorbed diverse musical influences from an early age. His first teacher was his father – the violinist, composer and conductor Aldo Krieger. In 1943, Edino moved to Rio de Janeiro to study composition with Hans Joachim Koellreutter, the leader of a group of young avant-garde composers, among whose members were Claudio Santoro and César Guerra-Peixe. Krieger then went to the United States in 1948, where he studied violin with William Nowinsky and composition with Aaron Copland and Peter Mennin. He won the Composition Prize at the Warsaw Festival in 1955 and went to London to study with Lennox Berkeley.

Back in Brazil, in the years that followed he saw ...