André Januário is a Brazilian artist-researcher with work connecting bassoon performance, repertoire creation, and research-informed musical practice. His current artistic focus is Brazilian music, chamber works, and arrangements for voice and bassoon. 
His ongoing artistic projects focus primarily on chamber music. André conceived and founded the Trillium Wind Quintet, a Michigan-based ensemble dedicated to developing new performance initiatives across the Great Lakes region.
With Split Reed, his bassoon and saxophone duo, André develops arrangements, commissions, and projects for this uncommon pairing. In 2026, he was named one of six winners of the International Double Reed Society Commissioning Grant, awarded as part of the Society’s 50th anniversary. The grant supported the creation of Serenata e Maracatu by Brazilian composer Gilson Santos, written for André and premiered by Split Reed at the 2026 International Double Reed Society Conference in Ohio, USA. The conference program also featured André’s arrangement of Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 for bassoon and saxophone, dedicated to the duo.