About me

Raisa Richter was born in march 21th, 1989, in the city of Ribeirão Preto – SP (Brazil).

Bachelor and máster in Music (Piano) by the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (EM-UFRJ), she started her music studies at four years old in the Ribeirão Preto Conservatory of Arts, Arte Som. During her graduate studies, she was the monitor of Musical Perception discipline for two years.

As interpreter, she has participated in several music festivals and masterclasses of renowned pianists. With the clarinetist Bezaleel Ferreira, she integrates the Duo Ferreira Richter, which dedicates to spreading Latin American music to the qualification in piano and clarinet. Since 2015, the Duo has performed in a number of chamber music series in Rio de Janeiro (RJ) and Barra Mansa (RJ) city hall, among them: Série Música de Primeira (PIBRJ), Série Música no Conservatório (CBM – RJ), Série de Música de Câmara do Projeto Música nas Escolas (Barra Mansa – RJ), IV Festival de Clarinetistas do Rio de Janeiro, Série Compositores (UNIRIO), inter alia.

In 2010, Raisa Richter claimed third place in the category piano solo in the XXIX Concurso Latino-Americano Rosa Mística (latin american music contest) in Curitiba. In 2015, the Duo Ferreira Richter, claimed third place at the Vº Concurso de Música de Câmara do 54º Festival Villa-Lobos. In addition, in 2016, claimed third place in the Concurso Nacional de Piano e Canto de Câmera of UFRJ in the piano solo category.

Since 2008 she teaches private lessons of piano, musical language and musical perception to all age range. Since 2018 she manages the Sala Alair Nantes Richter, her workplace, which is dedicated to spreading musical art knowledge and music production.

Since 2017 she has ventured out in musical composition, specially piano solo. She has wrote six compositions and four of them has been already recorded and are available in her YouTube channel. In May 2019, she received a proposal to compose her first soundtrack for a short film, which is still editing process.

In the last years she has become and interested in the theatrics, specially by the teachings of Jerzy Grotowski. Since 2018 she frequent the Instituto do Ator, where she collaborates as a pianist-composer in the theatric artistic creation.