Josi Carlos Amaral [Amaral] Vieira (02/03/1952), a Brazilian composer, pianist, pedagogue, and musicologist, born in São Paulo. He studied composition in France with Messiaen and piano in London with Carl Seemann. Vieira's vast output is extremely diverse, encompassing works in virtually every genre and for a great variety of performing ensembles. In his piano works, he embraced large-scale forms as well as collections of short compositions with a highly distinctive character, in the best tradition of the Romantic and post-Romantic piano miniatures, while his large vocal and orchestral works show a distinct blend of late-Romantic and contemporary techniques.