Lucas Correia Lima da Silva

My work moves across three connected practices: performance, teaching, and musicological research. As a performer, I aim to create honest and direct musical experiences with the public. As an educator, I focus on helping students develop confidence, autonomy, and long-term musical growth. As a researcher, I investigate how music registers broader historical, cultural, and economic transformations.

I studied music theory and guitar performance at the Conservatório Federal de Pelotas in Brazil with Prof. Maurício Machado Nunes. Later, I studied with Prof. Luiz Cláudio Ribas Ferreira in Curitiba before continuing my musical education at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, where I was assisted by Prof. Paulo Inda and Prof. Marcos Araújo.

During this period, I also took private lessons with Prof. Fabio Zanon and participated in festivals and competitions across South America. I received several prizes, including 3rd prize at the Peru International Guitar Competition (2015), 1st prize at the Uruguay International Guitar Competition (2015), and the Guitar Coop Award (2017).

My repertoire includes solo and chamber music by composers from different centuries and countries, including Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Schubert, Mauro Giuliani, Luigi Legnani, and composers from Latin America and Europe.

My teaching focuses on technical clarity, musical imagination, and student autonomy. I work with score reading, tablature, chords, harmony, counterpoint, arpeggios, scales, systematic technique, body awareness, sight-reading, performance training, and ear training.

My pedagogical research explores how technology can connect music schools across different countries, creating spaces for intercultural learning, teacher exchange, and student motivation. This approach is shaped by social learning theory, the development of self-efficacy, and the belief that students learn not only from instruction, but also through observation, collaboration, and performance.

Online lessons are available by request.

• Adorno’s concept of Vermittlung and tonal mediation
• Schoenberg, serialism, and triadic presence
• Music, monetary instability, inflation, and trust
• Computational analysis of musical structures
• Remote music education and intercultural learning

Selected essays, drafts, articles, and research materials.

• Musical and Monetary Vermittlung: Trust, Coherence, and Adorno’s Critique
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• Schoenberg, Adorno, and the Collapse of Vermittlung: Quantifying the Erosion of Tonal Mediation through Triadic Presence
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• Fernunterricht: Wie Technologie Musikschulen auf verschiedenen Kontinenten verbinden kann
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For full drafts, conference papers, or unpublished materials, please contact me directly by email.

Triad Analysis

A computational tool developed for the analysis of explicit triadic simultaneities in MusicXML scores. The application was created in connection with research on Schoenberg, Adorno, tonal mediation, and computational approaches to musical analysis.

Open Triad Analysis App

Built with Python, music21, and Streamlit.

For teaching, performance, research, or collaboration inquiries:

correialimalucas@gmail.com