Alberto Grau
Alberto Grau (born November 7, 1937 in Vic ) is a Venezuelan composer , conductor and music teacher .
Life
Grau studied at the Escuela de Música José Ángel Lamas and the Escuela de Música Juan Manuel Olivares in Caracas with Vicente Emilio Sojo , Angel Sauce , Juan Bautista Plaza , Gonzalo Castellanos , Luis Felipe Ramón y Rivera and Robert Fountain. He later took courses in orchestral conducting with Sergiu Celibidache in Bologna (1972–73) and Bernard Keffe in London (1977–78) and in composition and orchestration with Patrick Stanford (1977–78).
In 1967 he founded the Schola Cantorum of Caracas, with which he won first prize at the International Guido D'Arezzo Competition in Italy in 1974 and made numerous music recordings. He was also the founding director of the Orfeón Universitario Simón Bolívar (1970). After teaching at various music schools in Caracas, he was Professor of Choral Conducting at the Instituto Universitario de Estudios Musicales (IUDEM) from 1979 to 2001 and at the Universidad Simón Bolívar from 1996 to 2001 . He was also head of the Choral Symphony Department of the Fundación Orquesta Nacional Juvenil de Venezuela . As a guest lecturer, Grau u. a. in the USA, Spain, Sweden, Israel, Argentina and Brazil.
As a composer, Grau was awarded the Premio Nacional de Música José Angel Montero three times : 1967 for the Tríptico para Mezzo y Piano , 1983 for the Dies Irae and 1987 for the Pater Noster for mixed choir. His ballet La Doncella won first prize at the Día Internacional del Canto Coral in Barcelona in 1978 . With the Opereta Ecológica en Cuatro Actos , Grau won the Premio de Composición y Expresion Coral of the government of the Canary Islands in 1999 .
Works
- Toccata for piano solo , 1965
- Tríptico (text: Juan Ramón Jiménez ) for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, 1966
- Aguinaldos venezolanos for mixed choir, 1968
- Dies Irae , 1983
- Pater Noster , 1987
- Los Duendes (Texts: Andrés Bello ) for women's choir, 1993
- San Antón en tres movimientos (texts: Andrés Bello ) for three-part children's choir, 1994
- Cinco canciones infantiles basadas en la poesía popular “El San Pedro” for children's choir, 1996
- Cuatro piezas para coros infantiles en idioma euskera for children's choir, 1998
- Ciclo de canciones de Jesús Rosas Marcano for children's choir, 1999
- Opereta Ecológica en cuatro actos (texts: Jesús Rosas Marcano ) for children's choir, 1999
- Cuatro canciones Catalanas for children's choir, 2000
- Confitemini Domino , 2001
- Mi Patria es el Mundo (texts: Gandhi / Seneca ) for four-part choir and speaker, 2001
- Hermana Lluvia for four-part choir and speaker, 2002
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gray, Alberto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Venezuelan composer, conductor and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vic , Catalonia |