Pedro de Alcantara

Growing up in Brazil, my first love in music was J.S. Bach and Scarlatti, which my mother played on the piano. Then came the music of the Renaissance, then the discovery of Debussy, Ravel, Prokofieff, Stravinski . . . One day my brother brought home an LP of Paul Desmond's and Dave Brubeck's "Take Five." Wow! Music is rhythm, sound, movement, storytelling, vibration, pleasure, joy, and love.<div><br></div><div>When I was 19 I moved to the US, to study the cello. New discoveries and explorations: playing string quartets by Beethoven and Bartók, studying a Sibelius symphony under a great conductor, performing at NY's Avery Fisher Hall with the Yale Philharmonia . . .</div><div><br></div><div>Then came the frustrations and anxieties of being a professional musician -- and becoming separated from the Creative Source, so to speak. Believe it or not, most musicians hurt deep inside. It took me a few decades to work through my pains, but the journey was worth every Band-Aid, all ten thousand of them: I learned a lot about healing, about helping others, about growing up. I <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Pedro-de-Alcantara/e/B001HOFWBK/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1" title="" target="_blank">wrote books</a> and traveled the world. I understood that I needed to be not "a cellist" but "a musician." And I reconnected with the Creative Source.</div><div><br></div><div>"Songs &amp; Soundscapes" shows you where I am today.</div>

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