Luciano Lima is a Brazilian guitarist, researcher, and professor at UNESPAR (Campus de Curitiba II – FAP). He holds a Doctorate in Music from the Université de Montréal, a master’s degree from McGill University, and a bachelor’s degree from the Escola de Música e Belas Artes do Paraná, Brazil. His artistic and academic career is dedicated to the guitar in many dimensions, encompassing performance, research, composition, arranging, and pedagogy. He began his musical studies with João Roberto de Castro and later continued under the guidance of Kevin Collins, Richard Provost, Luiz Cláudio Ribas Ferreira, Orlando Fraga, Garry Antonio, and Peter McCutcheon.

Luciano has performed both as a soloist and chamber musician in Brazil, Canada, Italy, and the United States. He is also an arranger and composer, with a particular focus on the guitar, having his work published by Les Productions d’OZ. As an educator, he has taught at the Universidade Federal de Pelotas and the Conservatório de MPB de Curitiba, as well as at music festivals and academic events, including the Oficina de Música de Curitiba, the Festival de Música de Londrina, and the Simpósio Acadêmico de Violão da EMBAP.

As a researcher, Luciano completed his doctoral thesis on the four solo guitar concertos by Radamés Gnattali and has published articles and delivered lectures on the composer’s work at academic events. Continuing this line of research, he released Radamés Gnattali e o Violão de Concerto (UNESPAR), a revision of Gnattali’s solo guitar works based on original manuscripts. He has also published numerous transcriptions and editions of works by Brazilian composers, including Guia Prático para Violão Solo, featuring transcriptions of Villa-Lobos’s Guia Prático (Academia Brasileira de Música); 20 pieces by Claudio Santoro (Savart); Ian Guest – Música para Violão (Acervo Violão Brasileiro); and 21 Peças Líricas para Violão by André Mehmari (Estúdio Monteverdi). Since 2024, he has been producing editions of works by Brazilian guitar pioneers in collaboration with the Memorial do Violão Brasileiro.