Family Music: Vania Pimentel, piano

February’s free family music program sponsored by the Friends of the Carmel Valley Library will be held on Wednesday, February 13 at 6:45 p.m. in the Library’s community room. It will feature pianist Vania Pimentel in a program of music from her native country of Brazil. The program will include works by Nazareth, Villa-Lobos, Gonzaga, Guarnieri and more. Dr. Pimentel has been living in San Diego since 2009. She has performed recitals at Palomar College, Fallbrook Library, Coronado Library, Encinitas Library, the Athenaeum, and chamber music in Temecula: Classics at the Merc. She performs frequently in Brazil at the MuBE (Brazilian Museum of Sculpture) in Sao Paulo, at Casa Thomas Jefferson in Brasília, and has given masterclasses at the USP (University of São Paulo) and at the UNESPAR (University of Paraná State) in Curitiba.