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