About this user
Érico Fonseca was born in Nova Friburgo in Brazil, on February 5, 1982, where he finished all his studies until the end of the high school. In Rio de Janeiro, he studied trumpet temporarily with David Alves at the Rio de Janeiros Federal University.
Through a contest he was hired as solo-trumpet at the Brazilian Youth Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Yeruham Scharowsky (1999). He obtained a place at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro to follow music lessons there. Prize winner of a young instrumentalists contest, he obtained an integral scholarship for one year offered by the State of Fribourg, Switzerland.
From February 2000 to 2005, he was a trumpet student of Jean-François Michel at the Fribourg Conservatory where he obtained his teaching diploma in 2003 and his virtuosity diploma in 2005, with the highest academic distinctions in both his teaching and virtuosity diplomas.
He collaborated with the Geneva Brass Quintet, with the Quartet Nov' ars, the Ensemble Ö (contemporary music), with the Verbier Festival Brass Ensemble and the Poly-Brass Quintet. Through an audition he obtained a jobin the orchestral academy in the Biel Symphony Orchestra (2001-2002) and at the Bern Symphony Orchestra (2002-2003). Erico performed as a soloist with the La Concordia Windband, the Fribourg Concert Band, the Aargau Symphony Orchestra, the Prague Chamber Orchestra and others.
He followed several Master-classes: for one week with Maurice André and one week with Hakan Hardenberger and the Stockholm Chamber Brass. He was invited to take part in the Contest Tromp Musiek Biennale in Eindhoven, Holland (2002) and in the Maurice André Competition in Paris in 2003. Érico obtained a second price at the Contest of Musical Youths of Switzerland (2001), as well as the first price of the contest for the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europes Scholarship (2003) and was finalist of the Yamaha Trumpet Contest in Berlin (2004). He also had the privilege of taking part in the CD « Brazilian Musicians in Switzerland" produced by Switzerland International Radio. He was an academist on the Zurich Opera House, and is a former member of Nemos Brass Quintet and former trumpet professor at the Fribourg Conservatory.
Currently Erico works as assistant principal trumpet on the Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra, in Brazil.