João Guilherme Ripper

João Guilherme Ripper studied at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and pursued a PhD at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He specialized in “Economics and Financing of Culture” at Université Paris-Dauphine in France, and in orchestral conducting in Argentina. Since 1988, he is a faculty member of the School of Music at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where he served as Dean from 1999 to 2003. Ripper was the Director of the Sala Cecília Meireles, a concert hall in Rio, from 2004 to 2015 and again from 2019 to 2023. He served as President of the Fundação Teatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro from 2015 to 2017. In 2003, he was elected a lifetime member of the Brazilian Academy of Music, an institution founded by Villa-Lobos in 1945.