A Musical Laboratory
The Ilumina Festival began in 2015 as a musical and social experiment on a farm in the mountains of the São Paulo countryside, when Jennifer Stumm brought together a small group of musicians to play three concerts in a magical blue church. The idea was that uniting super-talented young musicians from diverse backgrounds together with leading artists to live, eat, work and perform side-by-side would accelerate understanding, opportunity, and creativity for all participants, and hopefully make waves for equity and inclusion in the wider world of classical music. Since then, the festival has rocketed to prominence as an example of what an artist-led project can achieve, with a staggering percentage of young musicians going on to study at leading institutions around the world, and a family of international artists investing deeply in making sure the next generation gets a fair chance. An audience of thousands, for whom festival concerts are often their only access to live music, returns year after year.
The Music of Sustainability: Ilumina and FAF Coffee
The Ilumina Festival’s working home is the beautiful Fazenda Ambiental Fortaleza in the interior of São Paulo state—a world leader in sustainable organic coffee and agriculture, where music and nature blend seamlessly in the Atlantic rain forest, surrounded by birdsong, jaguars and 1000 year old trees. Our hosts, Silvia Barretto and Marcos Croce, have developed the Fazenda as a modern model for building holistic and sustainable relationships with the natural world, with the community and with the quality products it produces—a beautiful mirror to the work on Ilumina. Many Ilumina young artists grow up exclusively in urban peripheries of large cities and have not had deep experience with the natural world or with quality food. FAF’s “Total Quality” mission encourages making healthy connections between all aspects of life. During the festival, quality music can be heard day and night from every corner of the farm, just as the farm nourishes the creativity and social inspiration of every artist. Sustainability, the way of working with the environment’s own elegant solutions and rhythms, are the foundation of Ilumina’s practices, in music and in working for social good.
Young Artists 2015-present
Violin
Alexandre Pinatto
Ana Carolina Rebouças Guimarães
André Felipe Lima
André Silva
Ariel Santos Polycarpo
Arnaldo Abrahan Figueroa Perez
Artur Lima
Barbara de Jesus
Bogdan Hudzelaits
Breno Albuquerque
Bruna Dantas
Dan Tolomony
Daniel Maldonado de Souza
Diego Adnolfi
Eliel Santana
Ellen Caroline da Silveira
Emiliano Octavio Perea Caparotta
Felipe Bueno
Fernando Batista
Gabriel Moreira Mira
Gabriel Pereira da Silva
Gideoni Loamir Veríssimo
Guilherme Calebe S Martins
Guilherme Peres Silva Oliveira
Guilherme Prado Perez
Gustavo Lennertz Gonçalves Penha
Henrique Lima Oliveira Silva
Ingrid Comazzetto
Isabella Rangel
Iury Santos
Jamile Costa Destro
Jessé Xavier Reis
Jhonnisvan Da Cruz Campos
Jose de Jesus Dominguez Juarez
Karen Nino
Leandro Gustavo Vicente Hauxwell
Leonardo Aniceto
Lucas Bernardo
Lucas Dos Santos Silva
Lucas Henrique Bernardo Gonçalves
Lucas Santa Clara dos Santos
Lucio Mariano Luis
Malena Verduga Martínez
Marcela Macedo de Oliveira
Maressa Portilho
Maria Fernanda Lago
Maria Júlia Segura de Azevedo
Marina Vilaça Pinho Caputo
Michael Junior da Silva Alves
Monique Cabral
Murilo de Sá Barreto Callou Peixoto
Nathalia Sousa Oliveira
Nathan Amaral
Nycollas Novais Queiroz da Silva
Paloma Silveira Rossatto
Rafael de Almeida Marinho
Rafael Sanches
Robinho Carmo
Sara Pomim de Oliveira
Sol Irais Duran Moreno
Syllas Hanan Moura Gomes Santos
Tamiris Paes Souza
Thierry de Lucas Neves
Uiler Moreira de Souza
Valentina Isabel Fuentes Lizana
Vangelis Lopes
Veronica Lopes
Victor Gonzalez Bigai
Vinicius Gomes de Oliveira Sousa
Vinicius Henrique Batista
Viola
Abner Molina Brasil
Aliana Alencar
Carlos Alberto Romero Núñez
Clara Lucia dos Santos
Dalúz Sepulveda
Daniel Aaron Espinoza Façanha
Daniel Damasceno Amaral
Debora Gabriela Salinas Martens
Eder Henrique Souza Assuncao
Gabriel Pereira Iscuissati
Gabriel Iscuissati
Gabriel Polycarpo
Gabriel Squizzato
Gabriela Alexandra Ybarra Manrique
Gerusa França
Géssica Sant’ana
Guilherme Aparecido Santana
Guilherme Marques Caldas
Igor Borges
Israel Rei Almeida
Jesus Miguel Guerrero Flores
Julián Camilo Lerma Bejarano
Luiz Felipe Borges
Paulo Alonso
Raquel Paz
Raul Victor Martins da Silva
Sebastián Rodrigo Páez Saavedra
Stefany Stelet
Tania Valentina Painemal Ahumada
Vicente Patricio Burgos Arredondo
Waleska Desiree Vallenilla Valera
Yohanna Alves Pereira
Clarinet
Gonzalo Alberto Guerra Valderrama
Isaque Elias
Victor Hugo Rego
Horn
Isaque Elias
Cello
Ailen Klosko
Ana Verena Díaz
Anderson Clemente Santana
Ariam Guadalupe Fernandez Marquez
Betzabeth Eden Vicent Marquez
Bianca Souza
Bruno Lima
Bruno William
Caio Catão de Albuquerque
Caio Soares de Brito
Daniel Franklim Tassotti
Davi Castro de Lima Marconi
David Antonio Carrasco Figueroa
David Carrasco
Felipe de Luna
Frank Junior
Gabriel Vasco da Silva
Gabrielle Graciano Pessoa
Guilherme Afonso de Moraes Silva
Guilherme Moraes
Haziel Cândido da Silva Santos
Israel De Oliveira Marinho
João Pedro Marques Brandão
Juan Rogers Soares Rodrigues
Leonela de Jesús Velázquez Suárez
Luan Santa Clara dos Santos
Lucas de Oliveira Santos
Lucas Garcia Muramoto
Lucas Ryoji Garcia Muramoto
Lucas Sampaio Ribeiro Martins
Luis Felipe Ramos Nobre
Matheus Mello
Matheus Posso
Miguel Braga
Nathalia Barbosa Gonçalves Sudario
Orlando Abraham López Puertas
Pillar Gisele Rodrigues
Santo Scala Mora
Wesley Santos Sampaio
Bass
Ana Claudia Machicado Torres
Bella Lordelo
Bruna Cavalcante
Davi Ciriaco
David Jordão de Moraes
Talita Felicio
Artists 2024
