The Brazilian composer Marlos Nobre was born in Recife, Pernambuco, in February 18, 1939. He studied piano and music theory at the Conservatory of Music of Pernambuco (1948-1959), and Composition with H.J.Koellreutter and Camargo Guarnieri (1960-1962). Further,with a schorlarship from the Rockefeller Foundation, he followed advanced studies at the Latin American Center in Buenos Aires, with Ginastera, Messiaen, Malipiero, Copland and Dallapiccola (1963-1964). He worked also with Alexander Goehr and Gunther Schuller at the Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood (1969) where he meet also Leonard Bernstein. The same year he studied electronic music at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York. He received numerous prizes among them the First Prize at the following Composers Competitions: Music and Musicians of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro (1960); Broadcasting Music Inc. Award, New York, USA (1961); The Brazilian Song Contest, Rio de Janeiro (1962); Ernesto Nazareth National Competition,Brazilian Academy of Music, Rio de Janeiro (1963); National Composers Contest, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1963); Torcuato Di Tella Award, Buenos Aires (1963); City of Santos Contest, Sao Paulo (1966); the UNESCO Prize, Paris (1974); the I TRIMALCA/UNESCO Prize, Colombia (1979).