Teaching beautiful music since 1995
In-person lessons in Brasília (Asa Norte), at your home and online, for children, teenagers and adults.
Learn to succeed with a winning teacher, awarded in Brazil and in Europe.
The modern Paulinyi Method widens the biographical potential of the violin and viola student. For children from the age of 1, teenagers and adults, from beginner to professional. Lessons in Portuguese, English, French and Hungarian.
Prof. Paulinyi: (61) 98653-4811
Singing lessons for children, teenagers and adults with Prof. Paulinyi — one-to-one or in a group, in person, at your home and online, including membership of the Schola Cantorum de Brasília ® Choir with its Gregorian and polyphonic repertoire.
In the Schola Cantorum de Brasília ® Choir: weekly lessons in vocal technique and score reading.
Discount: 90% for a sibling/spouse.
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Prof. Paulinyi: (61) 98653-4811
In-person lessons and lessons at your home with Prof. Iracema Simon in Brasília.
An online option is available with Prof. João Marcos Simon Paulini.
Prof. Pedro Simon Paulini teaches the Kalimba online.
Prof. Iracema Simon: (61) 98653-4812 · irinhaSimon@gmail.com
Learn to compose your own songs, hymns, psalms and poems set to music with the Paulinyi Method of Poetic and Musical Composition.
Prof. Paulinyi: (61) 98653-4811
For all ages.
Prof. Paulinyi: author of Poesia e Versificação - Retórica na Poesia e Prosa - Formas Poéticas e Método Paulinyi de Composição Poética e Musical - Oratória. For children and families, the bestseller: Trovas Alfabéticas.
Prof. Paulinyi: (61) 98653-4811
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Fees with the senior teachers are negotiated directly with each teacher. The range below is for reference only.
The monthly fee with the senior teachers is agreed case by case, according to the course, the time slot and the chosen format:
Prices subject to time-slot demand and teaching format.
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Talent at the service of musical beauty since 2006.
SPES, Latin for "hope", is the name of the second theological virtue.
The SPES Group was founded in 2006 by the marriage of Iracema Simon and Zoltan Paulinyi, and has since grown with their sons. The SPES Group fosters musical and artistic exchange worldwide through professional musical support in several languages, logistical planning, artistic performance and invitations to new talents.
The SPES Group gives performances at international events, parties, weddings, conferences and artistic exchange programmes, bringing music and talent to audiences all over the world. To book a performance, contact the director, Dr. Paulinyi: +55 (61) 98653-4811 · Paulinyi@yahoo.com.
Individuals, institutions and benefactors interested in joining our SPES Network should contact Dr. Paulinyi: +55 (61) 98653-4811 · Paulinyi@yahoo.com.
Dr. Zoltan Paulinyi, Hungarian-Brazilian, began his musical studies in Belo Horizonte at the age of two and a half, in the class of Prof. Ricardo Giannetti (Flesch-Odnoposoff school). He studied with the violinists Ruggiero Ricci, Leopold La Fosse, Sidney Hart and Micaela Comberti; composition with Dr. Oiliam Lanna, Harry Crowl and Dr. Christopher Bochmann (University of Évora); and singing with Prof. Flávio de Moraes.
A violinist of the Claudio Santoro National Theatre Symphony Orchestra, appointed by competitive audition in 2000 (principal viola in 2009; principal first violin in 2007, 2010 and 2016-21), he also performs on his rare gran viola pomposa, built by the luthier Carlos Martins del Picchia. Ruggiero Ricci described him as an "exceptionally talented violinist" (1999).
He founded the Escola de Música Paulinyi in 1995, the Schola Cantorum de Brasília in 2012 and the SPES Group in 2006. He is the author of the Paulinyi Method for violin (volume 1 — Teachings, volume 2 — Scores) and of several publications on musicology, composition and Gregorian chant.
Awards and international recognition include the Pró-Música "Revelation of the Year" Trophy from the Minas Gerais Press (1998), the UFG National Young Soloists Competition (2002) and first place in the Bento de Jesus Caraça Programme at the University of Évora (Portugal, 2011-2013). His compositions have been premiered internationally at festivals in Romania and at the Funarte Biennials, and the SPES Group has performed in Spain, Portugal, England, Poland, Hungary, Ireland and France.
Iracema Simon (bassoon, soprano), born in Brasília, holds a teaching degree in Music from the University of Brasília (2008), where she was a researcher and teacher on the "Music for Children" programme, coordinating the recorder section in 2006 and 2007. Winner of the international IBERMÚSICAS 2025/26 selection. She held a CNPq Institutional Scientific Initiation Scholarship (PIBIC) on the theme "Solfège in Musical Performance" (2005-2007).
She began her musical studies at the age of 7 at the Escola de Música de Brasília (EMB), attending the classes of the bassoonists Flávio Lopes (EMB-OSTNCS), Gustavo Koberstein (EMB-OSTNCS) and Cristina Porto (EMB). She completed a supervised placement at the "1st Brasília International Winter Festival" (July 2005), with lessons from the bassoonist Alexandre Silvério (OSESP).
Having founded the SPES Group in 2006, she began her international career in 2008. She plays a Bell 2011 bassoon. She has taught at the Escola de Música de Brasília since 2012, where she has sung in the Madrigal since 2022, and at the Lycée Français François Mitterrand since 2020. Founder of the KOPA Orchestra in 2022 and soloist with the Portuguese orchestra AMASING in 2025.
Prof. Iracema: (61) 98653-4812 · irinhaSimon@gmail.com
João Marcos Simon Paulini (violin) was born in Portugal in 2012 and began studying the art of the violin with his father, Dr. Zoltan Paulinyi, in 2013, making his public debut at the traditional Automóvel Club of Belo Horizonte in 2017. He has taken masterclasses with Sherry Kloss (USA), Siow Lee Chin (Singapore), Olga Pak (Korea/Russia), Miguel Campos Neto (Brazil), Elisabeth Kropfitsch (Austria), Oscar Bohórquez (Germany), Elisa Fukuda and Giuseppe Gibboni (2023).
He performed Paganini in Austria, in the class of Sanghee Cheong, in 2019. He has published his compositions internationally since 2018 through SMP. He premiered his father's SAMIV trio, whose recording was commissioned by the Canadian writer (Karl) Károly Sándor (1931-2021). He received 3rd prize at the International Violin Competition (UK) in 2020.
Since 2017 he has been a soloist with the orchestras IACB (2019), SPES, KOPA (founder), AMASING (2025) and OSTNCS (2024, 2026). He gave the Brazilian premiere of Vieuxtemps's posthumous concerto (no. 8) orchestrated by his father. He currently teaches violin, music, French and English online.
Pedro Simon Paulini (violin) was born in Brasília in 2015. He has studied the violin since the age of 1 with his father, Dr. Zoltan Paulinyi, and composition since the age of 2. At the age of 3, Pedro won the Young Talents award of Cultura Inglesa Asa Norte in 2019 together with his brother, the same year in which he premiered ONITONAL as a soloist with SPES and with the IACB Orchestra.
He has taken masterclasses with the German violinist Oscar Bohórquez (2023), the Italian Giuseppe Gibboni (2023) and Elisa Fukuda (2023). He is a reviewer of the Paulinyi Method for violin and paints the covers of his father's publications. Founder and senior soloist of the KOPA Orchestra since 2022, with works by Vivaldi, Bach, Rieding and Paulinyi. He was a soloist with the Portuguese orchestra AMASING at the National Theatre in 2025. He gave the Brazilian premiere of Haydn's Concerto in A major in 2025.
Frederico Simon Paulini (violin) was born in 2018 and has studied the violin since the age of 1. A founder of the KOPA Orchestra in 2022, where he performs as a soloist premiering works by his father, who dedicated to him the publication of the Paulinyi Method of Pre-Violin Literacy (2019), already in international use and adopted by the Escola de Música Paulinyi in Asa Norte.
He took part in a masterclass with Prof. Elisa Fukuda in Brasília, 2023, together with his brothers. He premiered concertante pieces by Glicínia Mendes (2024), Dr. Christopher Bochmann (2023) and Dr. Paulinyi (2022 and 2025). He was a soloist with the Portuguese orchestra AMASING at the National Theatre in 2025, with which he recorded Vivaldi for TV Senado. He recorded the repertoire selected by the international IBERMÚSICAS 2025/26 award.