AWARDS, GRANTS: In the USA: Rockefeller Foundation, CAPS (New York Council on the Arts), Pan American Union (Washington), Meet the Composer (N. York). In Brazil: Foundation of the Art and Culture VITAE, RIOARTE Foundation, Association of S. Paulo Theater Critics, Medals D. Pedro II and Imperatriz Leopoldina. Member of the "Academia Brasileira de Musica".

RECORDINGS: Recorded 25 discs in Brazil and internationally: The piano works by Olivier Messiaen for Vox Records, USA  and Philips, Brazil, Manoel Enriques piano concerto for Belas Artes,  EMI ,Mexico. Her own compositions for New Music Circle, USA, Fermata Records, Copacabana Records, Rioarte Digital; Brazil, Music for oboé -Ricardo Rodrigues, Ars Contemporana, Germany, Musica Eletroacustica Brasileira , RIOARTE Digital, Estreias Brasileiras, CCBB, Rio de Janeiro besides her operas Fata Morgana for Eldorado Records, Brazil   "Inori à prostituta sagrada" for RER, England  / Spectra , Brazil ,  "Illud Tempus",  for OODiscs, USA and   RIOARTE   besides "As Malibrans" to be released in Brazil and the USA  2001. Digital /Academia Brasileira de Musica, Brazil.

VIDEOS: A complete (1 h.30') video recordings of her operas "Fata Morgana", "Space Liturgy" , "Inori to the sacred prostitute"  and "As Malibrans" for National Public Television (TVE) in Brazil. These videos were conceived and directed by the author. A complete video recording of her music-theater piece "Illud Tempus" for TV Cultura, S. Paulo, Brazil. Among some of her shorter videos, "Raga no Amazonas" received an international award at the Festival Musica Contaminata, Como, Italy.

MAJOR WORKS: Composed, wrote the scenario and directed 6 music- theater works or operas: a trilogy : "Inori à prostituta sagrada" (1993) commissioned by VITAE Foundation presented at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro (16 performances), "Illud Tempus" commissioned and presented by Rioarte Foundation, with 20 performances in Rio de Janeiro, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. This work received an award by "Ministerio da Cultura" and was also selected by the major newspaper "O Globo",Rio, among the best music events of 1994. The third part "As Malibrans"   commissioned by the town of  Rio de Janeiro  and StaatsTheater Darmstadt    premiered in 2000 at  the StaatsTheater, Darmstadt , Germany followed by Teatro Carlos Gomes Rio de Janeiro.  Besides this trilogy, her operas "Fata Morgana" (1987 new version 1996) was acclaimed by public and reviews in the Museum of Modern Art, Rio and Teatro Municipal de S. Paulo. "Space Liturgy" (1988) presented open air, in Rio, for a crowd of 15.000. "Music in Space" (1983) presented several times in the Hayden Planetarium, New York, Planetariums of Miami, Rio and S.Paulo.

PUBLICATIONS: Author of 4 books published in Brazil : "The third World". "Turn off my spot light" (a play) , "Days and Routes through Maps and Scores" (distributed also in the USA) and "Inori à prostituta sagrada". Publishers: Record, Massao Ohno, Melhoramentos and Spectra, Brazil.

PRESENTATION OF HER WORKS: Brooklyn Academy - Meet the Moderns, Hayden Planetarium, Carnegie Hall, Roulette in New York, Radio France - Paris, RTB , Radios Cologne, StaatsTheater Darmstadt,Expo in  Hannover,  Haus der Kulturen der Welt- Berlin,   Museum of Art- Mannheim, Germany, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia-Madrid, Radios Canada, WNYC, KPFA (USA) Cultura, S. Paulo, Foro Internacional de Musica Nova, Mexico City, Gaudeamus Foundation , Netherlands, Gulbenkian Foundation- Lisbon,Logos Foundation, Belgium, New Music America - Miami, Los Angeles, Evenings for New Music-Buffalo besides all the Biennials of Contemporary Music -Rio de Janeiro and most theaters, museums and open air concerts in Brazil.

CONCERTS: Soloist under the baton of Stravinsky, Lukas Foss, Robert Craft, Sixteen Erhling, Eleazar de Carvalho amongst others, with major orchestras such as Boston Symphony, St Louis Symphony, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestre National Belge, Radio France, Radio Television Belge, besides Radio Orchestras from Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Mexico and all Brazilian main orchestras.

WORLD PREMIERES, WORKS DEDICATED TO HER: The following composers dedicated works to her as a pianist: Luciano Berio, Iannis Xenakis, Claudio Santoro, John Cage, Ben Johnston, Lejaren Hiller, Robert Wykes, Marlos Nobre, Manoel Enriquez.

ARTISTIC ACTIVITIES: Organised in Rio de Janeiro and S. Paulo the First Week for Avant Garde Music (1961) This was the first time electronic music was presented in Brazil. Organised the Second Week of Avant Garde Music in Rio and S. Paulo (1966) . She invited and organised concerts in Rio for the following musicians: John Cage, Stockhausen, Ron Pellegrino, Joseph Celli, Henry Pousseur, Iannis Xenakis, David Tudor, Phill Niblock, Rich O'Donnell among others. She also organised a video show with participation of 100 American artists in the Museum of Modern Art, Rio. She was a pioneer to present in Brazil concerts with electronic music, multimedia, laser and video computer in real time. She organised a series of Women Composers, Rio de Janeiro. Founder of the "Academia Paulista de Musica", "Ensemble Ars Electronica", "Ensemble Jocy de Oliveira" (group of musicians/actors to perform her music). She was music curator at the Museum of Modern Art, Rio and Foundation of Theaters in Rio (FUNARJ) She was member of the organising comity for the New Music America, Bienal de Musica Contemporanea and is member of the executive board of "Sociedade Brasileira de Musica Eletroacustica."

ACADEMIC WORK: She was associated professor: University of South Florida, Tampa, faculty member: New School for Social Research, artist in residence: St. John's College, St. F´, Lewis and Clark, Portland, Universidades Federal da Bahia, Festival Campos de Jordaõ. Workshops: Hochschule fur Muzik Berlin and Mannheim, New York University, Washington University, Escola Nacional de Musica, Rio besides several festivals and symposiums in Brazil.