Academically, Maestro Ricardo Tacuchian has received the following degrees: bachelor degrees in piano from the University of Brazil in 1961, in composition from UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) in 1965, and in conducting from UFRJ in 1965; postgraduate artist diplomas for orchestral conducting and for composition and orchestration from UFRJ in 1967; and a doctoral degree in composition from the University of Southern California in 1990. His principal university positions have been: full professor of composition at UNI-RIO (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro) since 1995; full professor of music history at the School of Music at UFRJ from 1993-1995; visiting professor at the State University of New York at Albany for the 1998 spring semester; and visiting professor at the New University of Lisbon for the period of November 2002 to March 2003. 
Highlights of his principal artistic and academic activities include: close to two hundred conferences or lectures proffered in Brazil and abroad, advisor for twenty-five approved MFA and DMA theses and dissertations, the orientation of Scientific Initiation and Research grant holders, fifty review boards for thesis and dissertation defenses for master and doctorate degrees and for professorship posts, and member of the editorial bodies of the ANPPOM (National Association of Research and Graduate Studies in Music) and Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Música Contemporânea magazines. He has been an ad hoc advisor for the such institutions as: CAPES Foundation (Brazilian government graduate study abroad program), CNPQ (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development), FAPERJ (Carlos Chagas Filho Foundation For Research Aid of the State of Rio de Janeiro), UERJ (University of the State of Rio de Janeiro), the SBPC (Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science) magazine Ciência Hoje, Maringá State University Foundation, the Londrina State University, UNICAMP (University of Campinas), Evaluation Council of the Foundation of Portuguese Universities, the University of Évora, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He also held a CNPQ research grant from l997 to 1999 and has been awarded grants from CNPQ, CAPES, and the Fulbright Commission. 
Tacuchian has composed close to two hundred pieces that have been presented in nearly one thousand live concerts, including Europe, the United States, and Latin America. He has had twenty-five pieces recorded and twenty musical works published, as well as numerous official commissions. He has conducted Brazilian, European, and American orchestras and ensembles.
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