Biography

Rafael Marino Arcaro is a Brazilian composer now based between Berlin and London. His music emerges from the sensibilities of his rural childhood – fruit trees, insects, nighttime creatures – and his reflections on Brazilian artistic identity. Known for an aesthetic of clarity and restraint, he writes works that carry a flavour of sour mango and cotton candy. His pieces are emotionally direct yet tinged with a kind of serious playfulness and, sometimes, dire violence.