 In the same year, she made her Japanese debut with the Osaka Symphony Orchestra and Chofu International Music Festival.Considered to be an avant-gardist and an engaged personality, today there are around 4% women orchestra conductors in the world, Menezes was the second woman to be at the head of a professional orchestra in Brazil at a time when there were even less.She has always been engaged in numerous multidisciplinary projects and her style is considered as innovative.