Born in São Paulo, Brazil in 1962, Flo Menezes studied at the University of São Paulo (USP) between 1980 and 1985, latterly contributing as assistant to the Composition Course of Prof. Willy Corrêa de Oliveira. In the 80ties Flo Menezes was also very active as a pianist and conductor. On 13 April 1984 he conducted the first public performance of the Konzert Op 24 by Anton Webern in Brazil. In 1987 his first book Apoteose de Schönberg, written between 1984 and 1985, was published in São Paulo. In 1986 he received from Germany a DAAD grant to study with Hans Humpert at the Studio für elektronische Musik of the Musikhochschule Cologne, acting there as a composer between 1986 and 1990, receiving his Diploma in 1989. In 1991 he was based at the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale (CSC) in Padova, Italy, to study computer music, also attending courses in France with Pierre Boulez (in 1988), in Austria with Luciano Berio (1989), in France with Brian Ferneyhough (in 1995) and in Germany with Karlheinz Stockhausen (in 1998). This relationship with Berio has led to a number of research and compositional projects: a Doctorate conducted in Liège under the supervision of Henri Pousseur, a post-doctorate study on Berio's manuscripts at the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Switzerland, an analysis of Visage by Berio, which was granted an award in 1990 at the 1st International Musicology Competition, Italy, an international selection from UNESCO in 1991, in Paris, of the electronic work Contextures I

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