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Alvaro Henrique has as his main artistical goal to share his passion for music, and has done so by making concerts and recordings, making new works known, colaborating with composers, enhancing classical music audiences, and sharing experiences with music students. 

Has shared his love for music with audiences in Brazil and abroad, as in the III Festival Nacional de Violao do Piauí (Brazil), the Festival de Musica Classica Contemporanea de Lima (Peru), the Sergio Igor Chnee International Festival (Finland), and solo performances in several countries.

Has represented the Brazilian culture abroad, playing in Peru, Jamaica, Mozambique, Namibia, Ireland, England, Greece, Germany, Finland and Switzerland, featuring national works, specially by Heitor Villa-Lobos and Cesar Guerra-Peixe.

Has premiered new works, and made the first world recording of Sighs (Jorge Antunes), the solo guitar works of Claudio Santoro, the Suite for Guitar (Ernest Mahle), the Cinco Intermezzos (Celso Mojola), among others. Has also motived composers to write new works, and from this partnership resulted Gegensatz (Oliver Thedieck), the Concertino para Violão e Grupo de Sopros e Percussão (Calimerio Soares), and others.

Aware of the importance of enhancing the classical music audience, has worked on projects such as the CCBNB Audience Broadening Course, in Fortaleza, and is Founder Presidente of the Guitar Society of Brasilia (BRAVIO), institution which since 2005 promotes monthly free or low cost instrumental music events. 

Has helped music students to reach their dreams by teaching lessons, giving lectures and writing articles that, besides giving tools for the students to play better, aid them to begin their musical career, as in the lectures in Brasilia about career planing for musicians and the articles published at the Violao Pro Magazine on how to schedule one's first recitals. Also shared his experiences and knowledges in several sites, magazines, and radio and TV shows.

In August 2009, Alvaro Henrique returned to Brazil after studies in Germany under Franz Halasz. Has made performances after the 50th anniversary of Brasilia with comissioned works by Jorge Antunes, Mario Ferraro and Carlos Alberto da Silva written for the occasion. Actually works as a Guitar Professor at the Universidade Federal de Uberlandia and makes a Master in Music course at the Universidade de Brasilia, researching about the expressive performance of unpremiered compositions.