Luciano Simões has more than 20 years of experience as a university voice professor and 30 years as a voice teacher, currently managing his voice studio in Hildesheim, Germany. His pedagogical work focuses on cross-training and voice building for the hybrid singer. His solid background includes a doctorate of musical arts from Michigan State University in voice performance, two masters’ (MM, choral conducting and MA, musicology), from the same university, a BM in voice performance from São Paulo State University and a BSc in pharmacy from the University of São Paulo. He has completed post-doctoral researches at the University of Coimbra, investigating the Fado voice, and the São Paulo State University, where he investigated belt technique.

Luciano has been presenting papers and research in some of the most important conferences in voice and music, such as PEVoC 2024 and 2019, NATS International Region Symposium 2024, ICVT 2022 and 2017, PAVA 2022 and 2021, EVTA Austria 2019 and ANPPOM 2016 and 2011, as well as masterclasses and lectures in universities such as the Mozarteum University in Salzburg (2023, 2019, 2018), the University of Coimbra (2020) and the University of Bremen (2017). In addition, he has published research at the VASTA Voice and Speech Review (2022) and the Journal of Voice (2021). Notwithstanding, Dr. Silva is the official translator to Brazilian Portuguese of The Structure of Singing, the seminal work by the great Richard Miller, published in 2019.

Luciano has started to sing as a teenager, performing rock and Brazilian jazz in bars and parties in his native city of São Paulo. Since then, he has performed genres as diverse as opera, lied, mélodie, art song, musical theater, and Native-Brazilian music, and conducted choirs in Brazil, USA and Canada.