Antonio Tauriello

Antonio Luis Tauriello (born March 20, 1931 in Buenos Aires ; † April 20, 2011 there ) was an Argentine composer, conductor and pianist.

Tauriello studied piano with Walter Gieseking and Raúl Seivak and composition with Alberto Ginastera . He directed contemporary music ensembles, conducted concerts and opera performances at the Teatro Colón , to whose cuerpo de maestros internos he belonged from 1957 to 1993, and performed as a conductor in the USA. In 1951 his first work, the Obertura Sinfónica , was premiered under the direction of Washington Castro .

From 1969 to 1972 Tauriello headed the opera department at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. He also directed the Washington Symphony Orchestra at the Inter-American Music Festivals. From 1972 to 1985 he was the assistant musical director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago .

As a composer, Tauriello belongs to the Latin American avant-garde. He composed operas, orchestral works and chamber music in various line-ups.

The Fundacion Konex awarded him an honorary diploma as a composer in 1989 and 1999. In 1994 he received the Gran Premio a la Cultura . In 2004 the Senado de la Nación Argentina awarded him an honorary diploma for his services to culture. He was a member of the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes .

Works

Transparencies (1965)
Serenata II (1967)
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1968)
Ilinx for clarinet and orchestra (1968)
Mansion de Tlaloc (1970)
Las Guerras Picrocholinas , opera based on François Rabelais ' Gargantua and Pantagruel (1970)

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personal data
SURNAME	Tauriello, Antonio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Tauriello, Antonio Luis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Argentine composer, conductor and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 20, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH	Buenos Aires
DATE OF DEATH	April 20, 2011
Place of death	Buenos Aires