Gerardo Gandini
	Composer
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   Composer and pianist, were born in Buenos Aires in 1936. He/she carried out composition studies with Alberto Ginastera and then in the Academy Santa Cecilia from Rome with Goffredo Petrassi. Their piano studies were carried out with the guide of Pious Sebastiani, Roberto Caamaño and Ivonne Loriod. As composer he/she has received numerous distinctions and scholarships. Among the last ones, that of the Institute of International Education (Young Artist Project"), in New york in 1964-1965, that of the Italian Government, in Rome, in 1966y the Guggenheim in 1982. He/she obtained the Municipal Prize of Composition (Buenos Aires, 1960), the first prize in the international competition organized by the Congress for the Freedom of the Culture (Rome, 1962), the first prize of music of camera of the Argentinean Mozarteum (1963), the Prize of the Musical Youths from Spain (1970), the prize Opera of Camera of the Municipality of the City of Buenos Aires (1971); in 1974 it was selected as one of the Ten Young Sobresaliantes of the Aryan in the Argentina and in 1977, it was granted him the Premio Moliére of the government from France for music for theater. They have been commissioned him works for the Asociación Amigos of the Music of Buenos Aires, for the September Musical tucumano", the Paul Fromm music Foundation, Esso Argentina", the Municipality of the City of Buenos Aires, etc. 

   It has participated in their composer quality or I eat pianist in numerous international festivals, among them: the III, IV, V, VII, and XI Festivals of Music American ínter of Washington, the festivals of the SIMC of Warsaw, London and Paris, the Musikprotokoll of Cjraz, that of Vienna, The Biennial of Paris, the Rassegna Intemazionale gave Music Contemporary Pianistica of Bergamo, Festival of Contemporary Music of janeiro River, First Festival of Contemporary Music of Caracas, First and Second Festival of Contemporary Music of Santiago from Chile, Latin American Festival of Contemporary Music of maracaibo, Biennial of Contemporary Music of Puerto Rico, Festival of Contemporary Music of Banía (Brazil), etc.. Several of their works they were taken to the disk, among them: "Impromptu fantasy for the Orchestra of Louisville (U.S) acting the author like soloist; "Soria Mona", for the Camerata bariloche; "Fantasy for clarinet and piano", for Mariano Frogioni and the author; "Night music IV', for guitar and quartet of strings, for Irma Costanzo and the Quartet of the University of The Silver, etc. was professor of the Juilliard School of Music of New York, of the Institute I gave Tella (Buenos Aires), of the Conservatory of the City of The Silver (Argentina), advisory of the national Fund of the Arts of the Argentina and jury in numerous international competitions of composition. 

   It was in charge of the courses of Contemporary Music of the Instituto Goethe of Buenos Aires during four years it was professor of composition of the Ability of Music of the Catholic University Argentina and of the Ability of fine arts of the University of The Silver (Argentina). at the present time it directs the Shop of Contemporary Music of the Foundation San Telmo / institute Goethe of Buenos Aires and the Center of Experimentation in Opera and Ballet of the Teatro Colón, and it is in charge of one of 105 shops of composition of the Fundación Antorchas (Argentina). 

Extracted of  Fichas de la Guía de la Música Argentina (1994)

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