sentences:  Edson Elias
  
  Edson Elias (Rio de Janeiro, February 11, 1947 – Paris, May 16, 2008) was a Brazilian pianist.He centered his career in France since he was appointed professor of the Paris' Ecole Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot in 1983 while remaining attached to his homeland's musical life, his 1987 integral of Maurice Ravel's piano œuvre both in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro being specially long remembered.