Classical guitarist Eduardo Meirinhos is a professor in the Escola de Música e Artes Cênicas at the Universidade Federal de Goias, Brazil where he teaches guitar, guitar literature and chamber music. He was the Director of the School between 2007-2010, and he is actually again the director since 2019, in the second term consecutively. He has given concerts in South America, Europe and the United States, participating in several music festivals as both teacher and performer.  These include: Festival de Musica de Londrina, Festival de Inverno de Campos do Jordão, Seminario de Musica de Montenegro, Curso de Verão de Brasília, and Festival de Vale Vêneto . In 1997 he recorded the CD Radames Gnattali, Sonatas e Sonatinas and in 1998  participated in the live recording of the Festival de Musica de Londrina , which was also made into a CD. In 2007 he released his solo CD Eduardo Meirinhos em Recital. Most recently he released is his new CD Sonatas by Eduardo Meirinhos. In Hannover, Germany 1989, Eduardo had the honor of performing in the world premiere of  Greek composer Nikos Platirrachos’ Lisistrati, for violin, viola, clarinet and cello, in which the guitar is featured as a solo instrument.  He has also premiered performances of Laudate Dominae, Toada Triste, Um Tranquilo Entardecer, Cantiga de Ninar by Siegfried Schmidt and instigated the first Brazilian performance of Variations sur un Thème de Django Reinhardt by Leo Brouwer. Eduardo musical education began in São Paulo, Brazil, at the Conservatório Dramático e Musical de São Paulo . He obtained the undergraduate degree at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover (Germany) . When he returned to São Paulo in 1994 he joined the graduate program in the Departamento de Música at the Universidade de São Paulo , where he stayed until 1997 obtaining the master degree in musicology. Most recently in 2002 he took his Doctoral degree at Florida State University.