Esteban Benzecry
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Esteban Benzecry is an Argentine
classical
composer.
He studied musical composition with Sergio Hualpa and Haydee Gerardi in Argentina. He moved to Paris
in 1997, where he studied composition with Jacques Charpentier's, Professor of the Conservatoire Superieur de Paris. He obtained the "Premier Prix a l'unanimitè" in composition in 1999. He also studied composition with Paul Méfano
, and Electro acoustic music with Luis Naon and Laurent Cuniot.
).
In 1999 he was distinguished by the Academie des Beaux-Arts de l'Institut de France with the prize from the Foundation Delmas, the prize Tronchet in 2002 and the prize Georges Wildenstein in 2006. In 2004, he received the Fondation groupe d’entreprise Banque Populaire-Natexis Award for music. He is Resident Composer at the Casa de Velazquez of Madrid 2004-2006 (Academie de France a Madrid). In 2008 he received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for Music Composition.
Le Monde de la Musique has called him a distant heir to Villa-Lobos
and Ginastera
because of his imaginative use of the Latin-American musical patrimony.
and the United States
. Among the interpreters that have performed his works are: Los Angeles Philharmonic
, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic, Tampere Philharmonic, Stavanger Symfoniorkester, Orquesta Gulbenkian of Lisbon, Orquesta Sinfonica de RTVE (Radio Televisión Española), Orchestre National de France
, Orchestre National de Montpellier, Orchestre Colonne de Paris, Orchestre de Concerts Pasdeloup, Orchestre Lamoureux, Orchestre Symphonique de Cannes-Côte d’Azur, la Sinfonietta de Paris, Orchestre de la Basse Normandie, Orchestre Universitaire de Strasbourg, l’ensemble l’Itineraire, Grup Instrumental de Valencia, Ensamble LIM, Orquesta Sinfonica National de Argentine, Orquesta Filarmonica del Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires, Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar
de Venezuela, Orquesta Filarmonica Nacional de Venezuela, Orquesta Filarmonica de Bogota (Colombia), Orquesta Sinfonica de Chile, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional (Peru), l’Ensemble de l’Université Carnegie-Mellon de Pittsburgh (USA), Orchestre Symphonique de Klaipėda (Lituanie), Orquesta Sinfonica Carlos Chavez (Mexique) la Camerata Lysy - Gstaad (Suisse), la Camerata Basel (Suisse), la Camerata Bariloche
(Argentine), “London’s Schubert Chamber Orchestra” (UK), and Solaris String quartet of London
,Filarmonica de Stat Targu Mures (Roumanie) Gustavo Dudamel
, Miguel Harth-Bedoya
, David Alan Miller
, Laurent Petitgirard, Alain Altinoglu, Daniel Kawka, Wolfgang Doerner, Mark Foster, Alain Pâris, Nemanja Radulovic, Rolf Schulte, Alberto Lysy
, Sol Gabetta
, Horacio Lavandera
, Jesus Castro Balbi among others.
His works have been performed and at the Sydney Opera House, Salle Pleyel
, Salle GAVEAU, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Theatre Mogador
, Maison de Radio France
, Palais de l’Unesco de Paris, Palais des Festivals a Cannes, Opera de Montpellier, Finlandia Hall, Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires, Auditorio Nacional de Madrid, Festival de Islas Canarias, Festival Rencontres d’ensembles de violoncelles de Beauvais, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Juilliard School
of New York (Lincoln Center), Boston Conservatory, Chopin Conservatory of Music (Poland) Festival Pontino (Italy
), Festivals de Brighton et Dartington (UK), Festival Estoril de Portugal, Musica Viva Festival - Miso Music Portugal, Festival Ensems de Valencia, Festival de Morelia (Mexico
), Festival Latinoamericano de Musica de Caracas, Festival Iberoamericano de Puerto Rico, museo Guggenheim de Bilbao-Festival BBK, and the Van Cliburn Foundation
in Fort Worth, Texas
...
Pre-Columbian Tryptic for Orchestra.
I – Ehécatl ( Azteca wind god)
II – Chaac ( Maya water god)
III – Illapa (Inca thunderclap god) .
String orchestra
Concertante
Large ensemble (6 or more players)
Chamber music
Piano
Dirección: Jesús Villa Rojo
LIM CD 020
- Sony B.M.G. *http://www.musimundo.com/producto-5099775905422~HORACIO-LAVANDERA-PIANO-COMPOSITORES-ARGENTINOS-CDDVD.aspx
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Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
classical
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...
composer.
Early years
Argentinean composer born in Lisbon in 1970 (of Argentinean parents), after growing up in Argentina he has lived in France since 1997, and obtained French nationality in 2011.He studied musical composition with Sergio Hualpa and Haydee Gerardi in Argentina. He moved to Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
in 1997, where he studied composition with Jacques Charpentier's, Professor of the Conservatoire Superieur de Paris. He obtained the "Premier Prix a l'unanimitè" in composition in 1999. He also studied composition with Paul Méfano
Paul Méfano
Paul Méfano , is a French composer and conductor.-Biography:Paul Méfano pursued musical studies at the École Normale de Musique de Paris, and then later at the Paris Conservatory , where he was a student of Andrée Vaurabourg-Honegger, Darius Milhaud, and Georges Dandelot...
, and Electro acoustic music with Luis Naon and Laurent Cuniot.
Career
In 1992 he was distinguished as "The young revelation of the Season" by the Musical Critics Association of Argentina. In 1994 the same association awarded him "The best Argentine work premiered in the 1994 Season” distinction, for his Symphony n°1 "El compendio de la vida", played by the National Symphony Orchestra. He has been a fellow of the "Interamerican Music Friends of Washington "(USA), Mozarteum Argentino and Academie des Beaux-Arts de l'Institut de France. In 1995 he was invited as Resident Composer at the Yehudi Menuhin Academy (SwitzerlandSwitzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
).
In 1999 he was distinguished by the Academie des Beaux-Arts de l'Institut de France with the prize from the Foundation Delmas, the prize Tronchet in 2002 and the prize Georges Wildenstein in 2006. In 2004, he received the Fondation groupe d’entreprise Banque Populaire-Natexis Award for music. He is Resident Composer at the Casa de Velazquez of Madrid 2004-2006 (Academie de France a Madrid). In 2008 he received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for Music Composition.
Compositions
He is the author of three symphonies (his first symphony, “El compendio de la vida” from 1993 is inspired on four of his own canvases) as well as symphonic and chamber works. His most recent works attempt a fusion between rhythms with Latin American roots and the diverse aesthetic currents of European contemporary music creating, thus, a personal language, an imaginary folklore.Le Monde de la Musique has called him a distant heir to Villa-Lobos
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Heitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has become the best-known and most significant Latin American composer to date. He wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works...
and Ginastera
Alberto Ginastera
Alberto Evaristo Ginastera was an Argentine composer of classical music. He is considered one of the most important Latin American classical composers.- Biography :...
because of his imaginative use of the Latin-American musical patrimony.
Performances
His works have been played in EuropeEurope
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and the United States
United States
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. Among the interpreters that have performed his works are: Los Angeles Philharmonic
Los Angeles Philharmonic
The Los Angeles Philharmonic is an American orchestra based in Los Angeles, California, United States. It has a regular season of concerts from October through June at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and a summer season at the Hollywood Bowl from July through September...
, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic, Tampere Philharmonic, Stavanger Symfoniorkester, Orquesta Gulbenkian of Lisbon, Orquesta Sinfonica de RTVE (Radio Televisión Española), Orchestre National de France
Orchestre National de France
The Orchestre national de France is a symphony orchestra run by Radio France. It has also been known as the Orchestre national de la Radiodiffusion française and Orchestre national de l'Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française .Since 1944, the orchestra has been based in the Théâtre...
, Orchestre National de Montpellier, Orchestre Colonne de Paris, Orchestre de Concerts Pasdeloup, Orchestre Lamoureux, Orchestre Symphonique de Cannes-Côte d’Azur, la Sinfonietta de Paris, Orchestre de la Basse Normandie, Orchestre Universitaire de Strasbourg, l’ensemble l’Itineraire, Grup Instrumental de Valencia, Ensamble LIM, Orquesta Sinfonica National de Argentine, Orquesta Filarmonica del Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires, Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar
Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar
The Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar is a Venezuelan orchestra. It is the apex of the nation's system of youth orchestras under the auspices of Fundacion del Estado para el Sistema Nacional de las Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela, known colloquially as El Sistema...
de Venezuela, Orquesta Filarmonica Nacional de Venezuela, Orquesta Filarmonica de Bogota (Colombia), Orquesta Sinfonica de Chile, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional (Peru), l’Ensemble de l’Université Carnegie-Mellon de Pittsburgh (USA), Orchestre Symphonique de Klaipėda (Lituanie), Orquesta Sinfonica Carlos Chavez (Mexique) la Camerata Lysy - Gstaad (Suisse), la Camerata Basel (Suisse), la Camerata Bariloche
Camerata Bariloche
The Camerata Bariloche is a chamber music ensemble from Argentina, founded in 1967. The ensemble has achieved international recognition for excellence.-Origins:...
(Argentine), “London’s Schubert Chamber Orchestra” (UK), and Solaris String quartet of London
London
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,Filarmonica de Stat Targu Mures (Roumanie) Gustavo Dudamel
Gustavo Dudamel
Gustavo Adolfo Dudamel Ramírez is a Venezuelan conductor and violinist. He is currently the principal conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony in Gothenburg, Sweden, and music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Los Angeles, California...
, Miguel Harth-Bedoya
Miguel Harth-Bedoya
Miguel Harth-Bedoya is a Peruvian conductor, currently Music Director of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra , a position he has held since 2000.He was born in Lima, Peru...
, David Alan Miller
David Alan Miller
David Alan Miller is a prominent American classical music symphony orchestra conductor, and for the past several years, the conductor of the Albany Symphony Orchestra.-Early career and education:...
, Laurent Petitgirard, Alain Altinoglu, Daniel Kawka, Wolfgang Doerner, Mark Foster, Alain Pâris, Nemanja Radulovic, Rolf Schulte, Alberto Lysy
Alberto Lysy
Alberto Lysy was a prestigious Argentine violinist and conductor.-Life and work:Alberto Lysy was born in Buenos Aires to Ukrainian immigrants in 1935. At age five, his father introduced him to the violin. Lysy left school at age 13 to devote more time to the instrument, and was subsequently...
, Sol Gabetta
Sol Gabetta
Sol Gabetta is an Argentine cellist of French and Russian descent, now settled in Switzerland.- Biography :...
, Horacio Lavandera
Horacio Lavandera
Horacio Lavandera is an Argentine pianist, born in Buenos Aires in December, 1984, who is currently residing in Madrid, Spain. As the youngest competitor, he won the International Piano Competition Umberto Micheli at the age of sixteen, held at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatoire and in Teatro della...
, Jesus Castro Balbi among others.
His works have been performed and at the Sydney Opera House, Salle Pleyel
Salle Pleyel
The Salle Pleyel is a concert hall in Paris, France. The resident ensembles are the Orchestre de Paris and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.-History and Design:...
, Salle GAVEAU, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Theatre Mogador
Théâtre Mogador
Théâtre Mogador founded in 1913 and designed by Bertie Crewe, is a Parisian music hall theatre located at 25, rue de Mogador in the 9th district. It seats 1,800 people on three tiers.In 1913 financier Sir Alfred Butt rented an area in Paris...
, Maison de Radio France
Radio France
Radio France is a French public service radio broadcaster.-Mission:Radio France's two principal missions are:* To create and expand the programming on all of their stations; and...
, Palais de l’Unesco de Paris, Palais des Festivals a Cannes, Opera de Montpellier, Finlandia Hall, Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires, Auditorio Nacional de Madrid, Festival de Islas Canarias, Festival Rencontres d’ensembles de violoncelles de Beauvais, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Juilliard School
Juilliard School
The Juilliard School, located at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, United States, is a performing arts conservatory which was established in 1905...
of New York (Lincoln Center), Boston Conservatory, Chopin Conservatory of Music (Poland) Festival Pontino (Italy
Italy
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), Festivals de Brighton et Dartington (UK), Festival Estoril de Portugal, Musica Viva Festival - Miso Music Portugal, Festival Ensems de Valencia, Festival de Morelia (Mexico
Mexico
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), Festival Latinoamericano de Musica de Caracas, Festival Iberoamericano de Puerto Rico, museo Guggenheim de Bilbao-Festival BBK, and the Van Cliburn Foundation
Van Cliburn Foundation
The Van Cliburn Foundation is host to the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, the International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs™, Musical Awakenings® education programs, and Cliburn Concerts.-Mission:...
in Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth is the 16th-largest city in the United States of America and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. Located in North Central Texas, just southeast of the Texas Panhandle, the city is a cultural gateway into the American West and covers nearly in Tarrant, Parker, Denton, and...
...
Selected works
Orchestra- Symphony No. 1 "El compendio de la vida" (Life's Abridgement) (1993)
- Obertura Tanguera (Hommage a Ástor Piazzolla) (1993)
- Symphony No. 2 (1996)
- Symphony No. 3 "Preludio a un nuevo milenio" (1999)
- Inti Raymi (La Fiesta del Sol de los Incas) (2001, commissioned by Musique Nouvelle en Liberté - Orchestre Colonne)
- Colores de la cruz del sur (2002, commissioned by Radio FranceRadio FranceRadio France is a French public service radio broadcaster.-Mission:Radio France's two principal missions are:* To create and expand the programming on all of their stations; and...
- Orchestre National de FranceOrchestre National de FranceThe Orchestre national de France is a symphony orchestra run by Radio France. It has also been known as the Orchestre national de la Radiodiffusion française and Orchestre national de l'Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française .Since 1944, the orchestra has been based in the Théâtre...
) - Rituales Amerindios (2008, commissioned by Gothenburg Symphony - Swedish National Orchestra).
Pre-Columbian Tryptic for Orchestra.
I – Ehécatl ( Azteca wind god)
II – Chaac ( Maya water god)
III – Illapa (Inca thunderclap god) .
- Fantasia Mastay (2009, commissioned by the Los Angeles PhilharmonicLos Angeles PhilharmonicThe Los Angeles Philharmonic is an American orchestra based in Los Angeles, California, United States. It has a regular season of concerts from October through June at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and a summer season at the Hollywood Bowl from July through September...
Association, music director Gustavo DudamelGustavo DudamelGustavo Adolfo Dudamel Ramírez is a Venezuelan conductor and violinist. He is currently the principal conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony in Gothenburg, Sweden, and music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Los Angeles, California...
) - Clarinet concerto (2010, commissioned by the FESNOJIV Fundación del Estado para el Sistema Nacional de las Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela)
- De otros cielos, otros mares... for chorus and orchestra (2011, commissioned by Orquesta y Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid).
String orchestra
- Sinfonietta Americana
- Scherzo Latino-américaine
- Mosaïque Sudaméricaine
- Quintet à cordes
Concertante
- Adagio Fantastico for violin, viola and string orchestra (1993)
- Concertino for cello and string orchestra
- Evocation d'un rêve for violin and orchestra (2005)
- Evocation d'un monde perdu for violin and orchestra (2007)
- Evocation of a lost world for violin and Chamber orchestra (2008)
- La lumière de Pacha Caman, Concerto for cello and ensemble of cellos (2000)
- Paisaje nocturne for violin and string orchestra (1994)
- Paisaje nocturne for violin and string orchestra (new version 2003)
- Concerto for violin and orchestra (2005–2007)
Large ensemble (6 or more players)
- Présage de l'Aube
- Rituales de la cruz del sur for 6 percussionists
- Tres Mitos Andinos for 10 instruments (2004)
- La sombra del Toro Rojo for 11 instruments (2005)
- Como una luz desde el infinito (Homenaje a Arriaga) for 7 instruments (2005)
- Huenu Leufu (Rio del Cielo) for 8 instruments (2006)
- Pillan Quitral - El Fuego Sagrado for 15 instruments (2006)
Chamber music
- Introduccion y Capricho for violin solo
- Toccata y Misterio for cello and piano
- Trio for piano, violin and cello
- Capricho "Sermoneta" for violin solo
- Rapsodie for clarinet and piano
- "Inti" Rapsodia for flute and piano
- Quatre pièces petites for bassoon solo
- Rapsodia Andina for cello and piano
- Viento Norte for flute solo
- Pièce for clarinet solo
- Suite "Prisme du Sud" for cello solo
- Alwa for harp
- Horizontes inexplorados for harp
- String Quintet
Piano
- Tres microclimas
- Toccata Newén
Recordings
- "El compendio de la Vida" Editions Cosentino (IRCO 299) Orchestral Works. "El Compendio de la Vida" (Symphony n°1) - "Obertura Tanguera"- "Concertino for and string orchestra "- "Sinfonietta Americana". CD El Compendio de la Vida
- Rapsodia Latina music for cello and piano - Lin/Castro-Balbi Duo, Toccata y Misterio, Rapsodia Andina – FILA0102 FILARMONIKA PUBLISHING
- “Con Arriaga” en su segundo centenario CD Homenaje a Arriaga – Colección Fundación BBK n°14
- XXX Aniversario LIM "Como una luz desde el infinito" para ensamble.
Dirección: Jesús Villa Rojo
LIM CD 020
- Horacio Lavandera CD & DVD "Compositores Argentinos "Toccata Newén" para piano.
- Sony B.M.G. *http://www.musimundo.com/producto-5099775905422~HORACIO-LAVANDERA-PIANO-COMPOSITORES-ARGENTINOS-CDDVD.aspx
- The Secret Garden - Noël Wan, harp "Alwa" for harp.
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