Caio Csizmar (2000) is a Brazilian composer. Born in Alfenas - Minas Gerais, he discovered a passion for music early on, starting music classes at the age of 7. His interest in composition was awakened at the age of 12, where he soon began his studies as an autodidact. He graduated in Composition at EMESP Tom Jobim and is currently studying Composition at UNICAMP.

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His music seeks to articulate conceptual proposals as a propeller for new models and dramaturgical structures, in a direct dialogue with history and with different repertoires. This music delves deeper into the search for systematizations of temporal morphology and rhythm, the use of melodic hyper-densities and their independence, alternative modules of organizations and functions of subgroups, as well as the exploration of the concept of harmony as territoriality.

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As a composer, his music has been selected for participation at numerous festivals and programs, such as:

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• a very small consortium call for miniatures (2020, USA)

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• Festival Escuta Aqui! (2020, Brazil)

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• XXX and XXXI Panorama da Música Brasileira Atual (2022 and 2024, Brazil)

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• 10th St. Petersburg International New Music Festival “reMusik” (2023, Russia)

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• 41ª Oficina de Música de Curitiba (2024, Brazil)

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• Festival Plurisons (2024, Brazil)

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• Inštitut .abeceda "precept.concept.percept X." (2024, Slovenia)

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• Post-Sonic Experiment "IMPORTSEXPORTS" (2024, Greece).

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In 2023, he was selected for participation at the Atelier de Composição Lírica do Theatro São Pedro, one of the most important composition programs in Latin America that foments the creation of an opera and grants a scholarship to those selected, where his opera Casa Verdi: Meta-Ópera em Ato Único was premiered.
 

He has worked with groups such as the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (MCME), ORTHESP, Ensemble Móbile and Vertixe Sonora. His work “Trio” was published at the UCLA Library Contemporary Music Collection.

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He studied with Rodrigo Lima, Flo Menezes, Denise Garcia and Tiago Costa, and had lessons with composers such as Yuri Kasparov, Rogério Vasconcelos, Dmitri Kourliandski and Marcio Steuernagel.​

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During the pandemics, in 2020 and 2021, he developed experimental projects for electric formations: the albums Meândria and Decriptas, the last one having been funded by the Lei Aldir Blanc grant for the arts.