Claudio Alsuyet

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Claudio Alsuyet (born October 14, 1957 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine composer.

Alsuyet had piano and guitar lessons at the Buenos Aires Conservatory from 1962 to 1972. He then took flute lessons with Susana Graetzer at the Collegium Musicum and from 1976 to 1978 took private lessons in music theory with Julio Palacio . Between 1976 and 1986 he studied harmony, counterpoint, orchestration and composition with Guillermo Graetzer , as well as electronic music with Francisco Kröpfl (1982) and singing with Lucia Maranca (1984–86). He completed his composition training with Gerardo Gandini (1991).

For the ballet Maquina de estampillar , he received first prize at the Argentina International Dance Competition in 1991, and in the same year he was honored by the Argentine Composers' Association for his Dos Dúos for flute, cello, clarinet and viola. In 1993 he became artistic director of the Asociación Cultural Pestalozzi . The following year, the Radio Nacional de Música Clásica honored him for his electroacoustic compositions, and he was a juror of the Tribuna Nacional de Música Electroacústica to select pieces for the competition of the Tribuna Internacional de Música Electroacústica of UNESCO .

From 1996 to 1998 Alsuyet was musical director of the Centro de Estudio de las Artes . At the same time he founded the Ensamble de cámera para la música del siglo XX , with which he performed works by contemporary Argentinean and foreign composers. As artistic director of the Solistas de Música Contemporánea he led a. a. Works by Patricia Da Dalt , Andrés Spiller , Oscar Baquedano , Elías Gurevich , Marcela Magín , Lucrecia Jancsas , Susana Kasakoff and Jorge Pérez Tedesco .

For the Revista Clásica , Alsuyet wrote articles on contemporary composers and commentaries on CDs of new music. In 1998 he received the Beca Antorchas for his Misa da Requiem . In 2000 he gave courses on contemporary composers such as György Ligeti , Sidney Corbett , Manfred Stahnke and Hans Peter Reutter for the Goethe-Institut Buenos Aires . In 2001 his composition Buenos Aires, April was premiered at the Teatro Colón .

Works

  • Estrictas estructuras for voice and piano, 1984
  • Dos Dúos for flute, viola, clarinet, and cello, 1990
  • Máquina de estampuillar , Ballet, 1990
  • Sólo Saxo Baritóno , 1991
  • JSRoger (homenaje) for chamber ensemble, 1992
  • Trio for violin, viola and cello, 1993
  • Cellici for cello quintet, 1993
  • Triemme for viola solo, 1994
  • Hómulo en vuelo (Text: Silvia Delucchi ) for soprano, cello and piano, 1994
  • In memorian Tomas Tichauer , 1995
  • 7 Postales for vocal octet and chamber ensemble, 1995–96
  • Concierto for flute and string orchestra, 1996–97
  • Roger-Naimi for piano, 1996
  • Dos de Lugones (texts by Leopoldo Lugones ) for female choir, 1998
  • Sanctus - Agnus Dei for mixed choir, 1998
  • Requiem for mixed choir, 1998
  • Ella iba de pana azul (text: Juan L. Ortiz ) for mixed choir, 1998
  • Algo (text by Alejandra Pizarnik ) for mixed choir, 1998
  • Juliet for oboe and string quartet, 1999
  • Misa de Requiem for mixed choir, 1998–99
  • Tres canciones de Alejandra Pizarnik , 2000
  • Buenos Aires, Abril for violin and marimba, 2000
  • Sólo oboe , 2001
  • En la Isla , opera (Libretto: Santiago Pintabona ), 2002
  • Lyricargentina (texts by Jorge Zanada ) for mezzo-soprano, baritone, oboe, bandoneon and piano, 2003
  • Concierto para piano y percisión , 2003
  • Metáforas de un viaje al blanco , 2003
  • Cuarteto for oboe, violin, viola and cello, 2003

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