Tagliapietra, Jorge (b.1952)
He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied
in the Conservatorio Nacional de Musica (Ciudad de Buenos Aires):
guitar and composition. (piano with Gilda Chittro and violin with
Sebastián Cambón)
His guitar teachers were Fanny Castro, María
Luisa Anido and Jorge Martinez Zárate. Among his most important
composition professors we should mention Virtú Maragno, Fermina
Casanova, Marta Lambertini and Valdo Sciamarella. Later he studied
in the Conservatoire Issy les Moulineaux and the Ecole Normale de
Musique in Paris, with D. Dondeyne and T. Aubin. He also got a degree
in Electronic Engineering. As a performer he played numerous guitar
recitals in Argentina and France, and also performed as soloist
with several orchestras and ensembles. Jorge Tagliapietra has been
recognized with several national awards in guitar interpretation.
His compositions are mostly devoted to solo instruments
and chamber groups, and besides his own pieces, he transcribes and
arranges works by other composers. He also works in research about
electronic music, transcribing his own music to be played electronically.
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