Concert pianist Vania Pimentel, born and raised in Brazil, has been promoting Brazilian music in creative recital programs. She has a BA in Music and another BA in Philosophy from Brazil, KA graduate artist diploma from Germany, Masters in piano performance and pedagogy, and DMA from the University of Houston. Her doctoral dissertation was on Brazilian toccatas, and her album Brazilian Toccatas and Toccatinas was praised by the Brazilian Academy of Music and newspaper critics in Rio de Janeiro. Pimentel became a member of the Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society and worked as an assistant teacher at the Moores School of Music and the Texas Music Festival. In Brazil, she had worked for 14 years as a piano professor in Curitiba, PR. Her first award at a piano competition was at the age of seven in Rio de Janeiro, and at the age of 13 she was a soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of São Paulo at the Municipal Theatre. Her top awards are from J. S. Bach International Piano Competition in Paris (1984), and Jaen Competition in Spain (1982).

Pimentel lived in Italy from 2005 until 2009 and performed at the series Pianomaster in Gravedona on Lake Como, in chamber music at the Blaue Blume concerts in Frankfurt. Back in the US, she performed recitals at Palomar College, Fallbrook Library, Coronado Library, Encinitas Library, the Athenaeum, Carmel Valley Library, and chamber music in Temecula: Classics at the Merc. She performs frequently in Brazil and has given masterclasses at many universities there. In 2020, she performed and taught at the 37th Music Workshop of Curitiba, and two years ago gave a solo recital at the Chapel Santa Maria, also in Curitiba, Paraná state. Pimentel was invited to perform during the season of concerts at Saint Bernadette 2024–2025, in Springfield, Virginia. Currently she lives in Miami.