BMI Sample - Event-Related Bio

1. Bio for
Welson Tremura
Founder of the Brazilian Music Institute
Press Contact: Chip Lowe, Phone: (352) 213-7650, Email: chiplowe@ufl.edu
Welson Tremura founded the Brazilian Music Institute at UF in 2001. As an associate
professor, Tremura teaches ethnomusicology and Latin American studies. He has extensive
experience in Latin America, having grown up in Brazil. He has served as a development
consultant and director for Precision Engine Products, an automotive manufacturing firm in the
region. He also managed the company’s facility in southern Brazil. Since then, Tremura has
founded his own consulting firm.
Tremura earned his law degree in Brazil from Centro Universitário de Rio Preto in 1985.
He completed his Bachelor of Science at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah in 1989.
Having received his master’s degree in music from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in
1991, he went on to complete his educational career by obtaining a doctorate in humanities in
1997 at Florida State University.
Tremura’s leadership has been integral to the establishment and continued success of the
BMI. His passion for Brazilian music paired with his network of native artists makes him the
perfect leader for this type of cultural immersion. Tremura’s goal with the BMI, and as a
professor at UF, is to create new opportunities and education models that seek to expand the

2. school’s visibility nationally and internationally. By establishing collaborative relationships
between academic and interdisciplinary projects, he has been able to achieve that standard and
create an annual cultural experience.
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