Martinho Lutero Galati

Martinho Lutero Galati de Oliveira (29 September 1953 – 25 March 2020) was a Brazilian conductor born in Alpercata, in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. He created and directed the Luther King Choir (1970), the Tchova Xita Duma Cultural Association (1982) and the Cantosospeso Association (1987).

Lutero wrote the book Do gesture à gestão: um diálogo sobre maestros e liderança. He was director of the Choir of the Municipal Theater of São Paulo from 2013 to 2016, president of the Brazilian Association of Choral Conductors in 2018 and professor at the Free University of Languages and Communication and at the Institute of Musicology of Milan. He died in São Paulo in March 2020 after suffering from COVID-19.