Born in São João da Boa Vista, a city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, Anor Luciano has been professor of trumpet at Universidade Federal de Belo Horizonte since 1995. He is a former member of the quintet Brassil, one of Brazil's foremost chamber groups. Luciano has performed as principal trumpet with orchestras throughout Brazil including in Campinas, Santo André, São Paulo, Tatuí, Recife, and Paraíba. He has performed and taught in Brazil's leading music festivals, including Campos do Jordão, Curitiba, Londrina, Vitória, Belém do Pará, Macapá, Goiânia, Ouro Preto, and Diamantina. As a soloist, he has performed throughout Brazil, the United States and Europe, including numerous commissions and world premieres by distinguished Brazilian composers such as Dimas Sedícias, Marcos Mesquita, João Linhares, Edmundo Villani Côrtes, Jose Ursicino da Silva (Duda), José Augusto Mannis, and Jovino dos Santos Neto. Luciano has collaborated with many Brazilian popular music icons, most notably Egberto Gismonti, Vagner Tiso, Paulo Moura, and Sivuca and conductors Ernst Mahle, Roberto Farias, Roberto Duarte, Roberto de Regina, Roberto Tibiriçá, Isaac Karabitchevisk, and Roberto Minczuk. Performances on several international conferences including this year's International Trumpet Guild Conference held at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ, continue to establish him as an innovative trumpeter versed in many styles. Luciano is currently very active in improving music education and the level of instrumental performance in Brazil through the establishment of music festivals that bring internationally recognized conductors and instrumentalists to his home county and increase the awareness of pedagogy, repertoire, and literature associated with wind ensemble performance. The Brazilian government has supported his research in this and other areas with several prestigious awards, including a grant from the CAPES foundation. He is a past president of Associaçio dos Trompetistas do Brasil.
Luciano is an artist/clinician for Weril, Brazil's foremost manufacture of all wind, and he has been very active in developing and designing new instruments for this corporation.