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I have reverted your edit to Anibal dos Santos. The deleted text is in the box below.

Portuguese violist born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1963. He began his musical studies at early age in his native city with Gianfranco Farina and Mario Mescoli. At age 18 he travels to Philadelphia, PA to study with renowned violist Joseph de Pasquale, obtaining his degree in 1988 at the Curtis Institute of Music.

During his school years he appeared as a soloist with Philadelphia Youth Orchestra and the American Bartok Society awarded him a special price for his performance of the Bartok Viola Concerto with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra.

Mr. Dos Santos has been soloist with the Orquesta Filarmonica de Caracas, Orquesta Sinfónica de Maracaibo, Orquesta Municipal de Caracas, Orquesta Sinfónica de Guatemala, Orquesta Sinfónica del Valle, Orquesta Sinfónica de Antioquia, Orquesta Sinfónica de Colombia, Orquesta de Cámara de Colombia, Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá  Orquesta do Norte (Portugal) and the National Symphony Orchestra of Argentina.

In 1995 he played a recital in the historical Boesendofer Soul of Vienna, Austria and recorded the three Gamba Sonatas by J.S. Bach with harpsichordist Sergio Posada.

Since 2002 Mr. Dos Santos has been invited as Professor in Residence by the University on Nothern Iowa, where he has played recitals with pianist Sean Baltkin, played chamber music concerts with the residence quartet and given master classes. This year he will attend there in October.

Mr. Dos Santos appeared with the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra in the U.S.A. in February of 2005.

In May of 2007, Anibal Dos Santos did the primier for the Americas of the Viola, Tango, Rock Concerto by Benjamin Yusupov with the Bogota Philharmonic Orchestra, Ricardo Jaramillo, conductor and Gina Medina, dancer. This concert became one of the most important musical events in the region with future performances in Latin America. He is currently preparing the production of a DVD of the work with the Bogota Philharmonic Orchestra and Parma Recordings.

He is currently the principal violist of the Bogota Philharmonic Orchestra and professor at the National University of Colombia.

The existing article is about a very different person, not about dos Santos the violist. Articles on people with exactly the same name, according to naming convention, must have unique names, for example Anibal dos Santos (violist). Different people with same names should never be placed in one descriptive article (it's what disambiguation pages are for). Right now dos Santos the convict occupies the "top slot" without bracketed qualifiers simply because wikipedia did not have articles on other people with this name.

If you, as your username suggests, is indeed Anibal dos Santos the violist, or his representative, please take a closer look at relevant guidelines: Autobiography, Conflict of interest and, most important, notability criteria for people and Biographies of living persons. Any article about a living person, including yourself, must be referenced to external reliable sources which are independent of the article subject. At the very least, they must confirm the existence of the person, the achievements claimed in the article (public prizes, notable performances, faculty appointments) and any material challenged or likely to be challenged.

May I also recommend: prior to creating a standalone biographical article, inquire about its chances to survive new pages patrol at WikiProject Classical music.

Regards, NVO (talk) 08:51, 31 March 2010 (UTC)