In 1924, at the age of 18 and in his last year of piano studies in Porto Alegre, Radamés was taken to Rio de Janeiro by his teacher and Conservatory director Guilherme Fontaninha to give a recital at the Instituto Nacional de Música. On the program, Liszt and Bach. Fontaninha wanted to show one of his students and brought me here to Rio. He invited all the critics, even Guiomar Novaes was there.