Lucas Campara Diniz

Born in Southern Brazil, Lucas Campara Diniz discovered the guitar at an early age under the musical influence of his family's Gaucho traditions.

In 2013 he won first prize at the Av Rio Guitar Competition, the Sebastian Benda Music Competition and the Fred Schneiter International Guitar Competition. A year later he toured Chile for the first time, as soloist with the Orquesta del Maule.

Today he performs across Europe, in the quartet Passo Avanti and in a duo with the percussionist Vivi Vassileva, at venues and festivals including Grafenegg, the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Philharmonie Essen, Kissinger Sommer, the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Europäische Wochen Passau, the Mosel Musikfestival, the Solsberg Festival and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival.

Much of his work goes into new music for the guitar. Besides his own pieces, such as the Sonata for Guitar, he works closely with composers: with the Wiener Konzerthaus he commissioned Javier Contreras's Sonata for Vibraphone and Guitar and Sergio Assad's Three Brazilian Legends for his duo, and premiered both there in the autumn of 2020. His concerto for percussion and strings, Imaginarium, was premiered by Vivi Vassileva at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in 2023. Avner Dorman's Child's Play (Wiener Konzerthaus, 2024) and Christian Jost's Frau im Turm (Stiftskonzerte Oberösterreich, 2023) were also written for the duo; the first recordings of Child's Play came out in October 2026.

He is also the founder of Arietto, a new music notation software that grew out of his years of composing and arranging. Its closed beta opened in October 2026.