Juan María Solare

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Juan María Solare (born August 11, 1966 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine pianist and composer .

biography

education

Solare studied piano with Maria Teresa Criscuolo, composition with Fermina Casanova and Juan Carlos Zorzi and conducting with Mario Benzecry at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo. He completed his studies with a diploma, the concert exam. This was followed by postgraduate studies from 1993 to 1996 at the Cologne University of Music with Johannes Fritsch , Klarenz Barlow and Mauricio Kagel as part of a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service .

Between October 1997 and February 1999 he studied with Helmut Lachenmann at the Stuttgart Music Academy . He then studied electronic music with Hans Ulrich Humpert (Cologne University of Music) until 2001 with an artistic maturity examination. In 2007 he passed the concert exam in electronic composition at the Cologne University of Music. He regularly took part in courses with Karlheinz Stockhausen in Kürten .

In April 2005 he passed his Licenciatura at the Instituto Universitario del Arte (IUNA) with the composer Roque de Pedro in Buenos Aires .

He is currently (2009) working on his doctoral thesis in music education at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid . Solare currently (2009) lives in Germany, mainly in Cologne and Bremen . Solare is an avid chess player.

Teaching

From 1986 to 1993 Solare held the chair for harmony , form theory and chamber music at the Tandil Conservatory in Argentina . Since January 2002 he has been teaching piano at the University of the Arts in Bremen and since September 2002 he has directed the Orquesta no Típica , a chamber music group dedicated to tango music, at the University of Bremen . Since October 2007 he has directed the Ensemble Kagel for New Music Theater at the University of Bremen. Between 2007 and 2008 he was visiting professor for music education at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Since November 2009 Solare has been teaching composition and arrangement theory for school practice at the Bremen University of the Arts .

Solare gives courses and gives lectures on contemporary music , for example at SEAD, Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance , at the Institute for New Music and Music Education in Darmstadt , at Ateneo in Madrid or at Université permanente Nantes , Texas A&M University ( College Station , Texas ).

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Solare was active as a journalist, both for magazines such as Doce Notas and ABC in Madrid, Pauta and L'Orfeo in Mexico and La Sibila in Seville , Tempo in London , MusikTexte and KunstMusik in Cologne, as well as for radio, namely for SWR and for five years for Deutsche Welle .

Prizes and awards

Solare was a DAAD scholarship holder from August 1993 to December 1994 . From July 1998 to June 1999 he was a scholarship holder of the Heinrich Strobel Foundation in Baden-Baden . From June 2001 to May 2002 he received a scholarship from the Künstlerhäuser Worpswede . Solare has received prizes and awards in Argentina (Promociones Musicales 1990, Fondo Nacional de las Artes 1996, Tribuna Argentina de Compositores 1999, Tribuna Argentina de Música Electroacústica 2002, Federación Argentina de Música Electroacústica 2005), Great Britain (British & International Bass Forum 1999, Rarescale / Royal College of Music 2004), Austria (Yage and Aspects Salzburg 2000), Spain (Radio Clásica-CDMC 2004) and Germany (Walter Witte Viola Foundation 2001, Bremen Composers ' Competition 2004).

As a pianist, Solare received awards in the following competitions:

  • Concurso para Jóvenes Pianistas "Cincuentenario de la Fundación Educacional Jrimián" of the Armenian Cultural Association in Lanús ( Buenos Aires ) in November 1980.
  • As a member of the improvisation ensemble Die Kugel , 2nd prize at the 6th International Competition for Young Culture 2000 in the Heinersdorff Pianohaus (Steinway House) Düsseldorf , as part of the "Düsseldorfer Altstadt Herbst" festival (SEP 2000).

Oeuvre

Solare has composed around 300 works, more than half of which were premiered. In addition to stage and orchestral works as well as chamber music, he also wrote for solo instruments and electroacoustic music . His compositions are regularly broadcast on the radio, namely by the broadcasters Radio Nacional de España , Deutsche Welle , Radio Bremen , Radio Fabrik Salzburg, ORF Kunstradio Austria, Radio Universitaria São Paulo , Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Bavarian Radio. The term “Sonoclip” as a short piece (usually less than 60 seconds) for tape and above all the term “Deconstructed Tango” comes from Solare.

Solare also wrote music for short films and for internet animation, especially for movies by Catalan artist Nuria Juncosa.

His works are published in Germany by Verlag Dohr , Ricordi , Peermusic Forton Music and Edition Tre Fontane .

→ See the list of compositions by Juan María Solare

Music for short films

  • Desde la ventana (In front of the window ), autobiographical documentary by the Colombian director Santiago Herrera Gómez, Cologne 1996.
  • Mesa para dos ( table for two ) by Medardo Amor and Angel Almazán, Madrid 2003.
  • Electroacoustic music for the experimental short film Bipolar by the German director Axel Largo, Bonn 2006.
  • Music for the silent scientific film Deformation of Metal Crystals from 1951 (signature C 611 from the IWF, Institute for Film and Image in Science and Education, University and Research Department, Göttingen) by Günter Wassermann. Premiere: Metropolis Kino , Hamburg 2007.
  • Corazón en sombras ( Heart in Shadows ) by Medardo Amor and Angel Almazán, Madrid 2007.
  • ZIMA by Katarina Stankovich, Cologne 2011.
  • They go by Alban Low, Bremen 2014
  • Turning inevitavly by Alban Low, Bremen 2015
  • One of these dice for the NOSE 2015 project by Alban Low, Bremen 2015

Composition orders

  • In September 1995 he received a composition commission from Deutsche Welle: Music for the radio play Atzomolco .
  • In 2002 he received a commission from the CDMC ( Centro para la Difusión de la Música Contemporánea , Madrid): Anamnesis for septet.
  • 2003 Composition commission from the Kunststiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen: (EL ES - A trio in five movements) .
  • 2004 commissioned by the CDMC in Madrid ( SUBTE - an orphic soundscape) , electronic music for radio.
  • 2004 Commissioned by the State Music Council of Bremen ( chamber concert for ensemble).
  • 2011 by the dance company Passages Sauvages and Eva Espoleta, Geneva ( Ehrlichkeit for violin and piano).
  • 2015 Composition commission from the University of Bremen (financed by the Karin and Uwe Foundation) ( Caissa's memory for choir and piano)
  • 2015 Commissioned by the Fundación Encuentros Internacionales de Música, Buenos Aires ( Verchim Oror for mezzo-soprano and instrumental quintet )
  • 2016 Request from the Friends of the Flute Association, Frankfurt ( emigration for flute quartet)

Recordings

  • Panorama de la música argentina (compositores nacidos entre 1965-1969) . Fondo Nacional de las Artes. IRCO 318 (with three of Moneda's pages for flute, viola and cello).
  • Pifferari - works for flute and clarinet , 2001. Regine Kuhn (flute) and Heidi Voss (clarinet); Edition Voss (Wiesbaden) (includes the Suite Modal )
  • 60x60: 2003 (various composers). Capstone Records CPS-8744 (released 2004). Contains Nice Noise (track 54).
  • Concierto Tango , 2005, Pretal PRCD 127. Natalia González (piano) with Mozartango
  • Tango Nómade , 2006. Eduardo Kohan (tenor saxophone) & Juan María Solare (piano) (with Tengo un tango , Sale con fritas , Tango en ciernes , Octango & Nómade from Sonatango ) (see [1] )
  • Thelema , 2006. Thelema Trio: Marco Mazzini (clarinet), Peter Verdonck (saxophone) and Ward De Vleeschhouwer (piano). (With hypnosis (in another room) )
  • Los compositores académicos argentinos y el tango II (1879-2007) , 2007. Mariana Levitin (cello) & Guillermo Carro (piano). Pretal PRCD 138 (with Nómade from Sonatango in a work version for cello and piano ).
  • Parajes , 2009. Silvia Dabul (piano) & Víctor Torres (baritone). Label IRCO 1263 (SKU: 7147) (with Vacío Blanco ).
  • Tango Monologues , 2010. Juan María Solare (piano). (Contains 12 compositions by Solare: Pasaje Seaver , Valsarín , Tengo un tango , Para Lisa , Milonga fría , Atonalgotán , Fragmentango , Akemilonga , Liebergmilonga , Talismán , Furor and Reencuentro .)
  • Argentine Cello , 2011. Zoe Knighton (cello) & Amir Farid (piano). Move Records (Australia), MD 3347. (Contains Tengo un tango , Nómade - from Sonatango - and Talismán ).
  • Tango Music Award 2011 , 2011. Cafe Tango Orchestra. Cafe Tango Productions, Stuttgart 2011. Contains Barro sublevado (Track 15).
  • Ideas y emociones , 2012. Label Fonocal, producer: Saúl Cosentino. Includes Reencuentro , recorded by Leandro Suárez Paz (violin) + Juan María Solare (piano). (Track 15).
  • Pasión argentina (tango & chamber music), 2013. Label Ultramar Music Argentina. Ultramar ensemble: Paula Gasparini (flute), Tamara Moser (piano) and Pablo Pizarro (cello). Contains Tengo un tango (Track 2) in the work version for flute, cello and piano.

pianist

As a pianist, his repertoire has four main focuses: Classical music from the turn of the century ( Liszt , Scriabin ), music of our time ( John Cage , Arnold Schönberg , Morton Feldman ), Argentine composers (including tango ) and his own works - as a soloist and in various chamber music ensembles, like in particular

  • Tango Nomade (with the saxophonist Eduardo Kohan, see [2] )
  • Duo Tangente with the violinist Gert Gondosch of the Bremen Philharmonic .

His first professional recording as a pianist took place in Geneva in July 2006: together with the saxophonist Eduardo Kohan he recorded the CD Tango Nómade. At the beginning of 2010 his solo CD Tango Monologues came out with traditional and experimental tango music.

conductor

  • 2002 - present: Head of the Orquesta No Típica at the University of Bremen
  • 2012 - 2014: Head of the Jacobs Chamber Orchestra at Jacobs University Bremen
  • 2013 - present: conductor of the symphonic orchestra of the Bremer OrchesterGemeinschaft

Dedicated compositions

  • Para la mano derecha [For the right hand], the last piano piece by Pedro Sáenz, 1992.
  • Rosales olorosos , electroacoustic piece by Gabriel Pareyón Morales based on a text by G. Ropenay, 2002.
  • Un marzo triste , piano piece by Saúl Cosentino, 2003.
  • Lo que se fue , chamber tango by Jorge Pítari , 2005.
  • Tres minitangos for piano by Jorge Pítari, 2006.
  • Solare-Tango , chamber tango by Luis Mihovilcevic, 2007.
  • El canto nocturnal de los caracoles for piano by Luis Mihovilcevic, 2005.
  • Meditativo for piano by Juliane Dehning, 2008.
  • Amanecer en la terrible Buenos Aires , Milonga for piano by Claudio Maldonado , 2009.
  • Contemplación , piano piece by Saúl Cosentino, 2009.
  • Winter chants for cello and piano by Juliane Dehning, 2009.
  • Milonga meets Malambo , work for cello and piano by Juan Manuel Abras, 2011.
  • Daydreams of Gardel on the Orbits of Saturn for piano solo by Rodrigo Baggio, 2012.
  • Tango-lá for piano solo by Micky Landau, 2012.
  • Y se alejó por el camino de los cipreses for piano solo by Luis Menacho, 2012.
  • Pussycat Tango for piano solo by Kelly M. Curran, 2012.
  • Algo neto for piano solo by Valentín Pelisch, 2012.
  • Tango Triste for piano solo by Leonard Mark Lewis, 2012.
  • Tango del Minuto for piano solo by José Hernán Civils, 2012.
  • Expulsado de la Milonga for piano solo by Douglas DaSilva , 2012.
  • Sin-Con Ciencia for piano solo by Moxi Beidenegl, 2012.
  • tango sostenido for piano solo by Jon Aveyard, 2012.
  • Napoleon's Tango for piano solo by Daniel Arnold, 2012.
  • Today and Tomorrow for piano solo by Bob Siebert, 2012.
  • Image Persistence of the Fog , by Walkala (Luis Alfredo Duarte Herrera), Salzburg 2007. 100 cm × 150 cm, acrylic on canvas.

literature

  • Natalia Cabello: Sobre 'Pasaje Seaver' de Juan María Solare . Conservatorio Municipal Manuel de Falla, Buenos Aires 2006.
  • Yew Choong Cheong: An introduction to the solo piano works of three Latin American composers: Miguel del Aguila, Tania León and Juan María Solare , West Virginia University (College of Creative Arts), USA 2009.
  • Maria Heward: Argentine Piano music since 2000 . BYU (Brigham Young University), USA 2008.
  • Kateryna Korobova: About foreign lands and curious people (About the music for lyre by Juan María Solare) (meaning a chromatic lyre), 2010.
  • Carolina María Peltzer-Meschini, Leticia Zucherino: Reflexiones Sobre la Notación Musical en la Música Contemporánea Argentina . Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), Argentina 2008.
  • Amelia María Saftich: La presencia del tango en la obra para clarinete del compositor Juan María Solare . Dissertation, 2015, Departamento de Artes Sonoras y Musicales of the UNA (Universidad Nacional de las Artes), Buenos Aires, 2015. Tutor: Lic. Cristina Vázquez.
  • Katharina Stashik: The use of the saxophone in contemporary music after 1970. An analysis . Cologne University of Music, 2005.

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personal data
SURNAME Solare, Juan María
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires