OTAVIO DE ASSIS BRASIL (Sao Gabriel, Brazil, 1984) is a Brazilian-Spanish accordionist. He is the first South American to hold the Superior University degree in Classical Accordion and It was in 2013 on the High Conservatory of Music of Aragon, under the guidance of Ángel Luis Castaño, his main teacher and from whom, until today, he receives advice.

Since 2008, he has also the Bachelor degree in music composition at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil).  In 2015, Otavio completed a specialization course in Contemporary music at the Escuela Superior de Música de Catalunya. In 2020, he decided to pursue his studies at the University of Freiburg, Germany, where he secured a highly coveted place among 19 candidates from various European countries. His dedication and hard work led him to complete his Master’s degree with the highest qualification, “Hervorragende Leistung”, under the supervision of Professors Nenad Ivanovich and Teodoro Anzelotti.

Otavio has performed extensively in Brazil, Spain, France, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, England, Andorra, and Morocco. These performances—whether as a soloist or with various ensembles—have taken place in theaters, concert halls, and at festivals such as the University of Coimbra, the Grote Markt in Antwerp, the South American Week in Bordeaux, the Bridge Center for Culture and Communication in Rabat, Kultur im Stühlinger in Freiburg, the Regather Cooperative in Sheffield, the Théâtre de la Fontaine d’Ouch in Dijon, the Église de la Trinité in Toulouse, the Fanjeux Art Museum, Salle Dérive in Nantes, the Temple du Change in Lyon, the Juan March Foundation in Madrid, the Mozart Hall in Zaragoza, the Eutherpe Foundation in León, the San Quirce Academy in Segovia, the Pablo Sarasate Conservatory in Pamplona, the Huesca Provincial Council, the CAI Assembly Hall, the Villa Margarita Festival in Girona, the Pedro Parenti Theater in Caxias do Sul, and the Goethe-Institut and Luis Cosme Auditorium in Porto Alegre.

He has been invited to special editions of Radio Clásica in Madrid and Radio Catalunya in Barcelona, as well as programs on TVCOM, BAND (Brazil), TVE and Aragón TV (Spain). In 2019 and 2020, he was awarded at the Perth Accordion and Fiddle Festival, Scotland, and was invited as part of the jury at the French National Accordion Competition (UNAF) in Toulouse and to teach Masterclasses in Conservatoires on the North of France.

Otavio is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, English, German and French conversationally. Thanks to his knowledge of different languages, he has participated in various courses and seminars with great musicians such as Helmut Lachemann, Leo Brouwer, Patrick Busseuil, Gustavo Beytelmann, Friedrich Lips, Mika Väyrynen and Paulo Jorge Ferreira, in Spain, Portugal and Italy. He is currently an accordion teacher in The Conservatoire Montserrat Caballe of Perpignan and Zaragoza.