Waltel Branco

Brazilian Composer and Guitarist

Waltel Branco (born Paranaguá, Brazil, November 22, 1929 - died Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 28, 2018) is a Brazilian conductor, composer and arranger. From a family where music was a part, he began this art very early, through the drums, guitar and ukulele and later the cello, has been studying harp and organ. His childhood and adolescence were marked by the study of music and religion alternating between the cities of Curitiba and Rio de Janeiro. His musical studies were consolidated in the period when he was in the seminary with the Chilean Joquin Zamacois. Among his teachers of the time, names like Benedict Mossurunga, Padre José Penalva, Jorge Koshag, Stanley Wilson and Alceo Bocchino contributed to its formation.