Jorge Fontenla
Jorge Fontenla ( December 7, 1927 - December 22, 2016 ) was an Argentine conductor , composer and pianist .
Fontenla studied piano at the Conservatorio Nacional until 1944 and worked as a pianist until 1960. In 1946 he founded the Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires , whose pianist he was for 16 years, and was the first pianist to perform Maurice Ravel's entire piano works in South America. As a soloist he has performed with conductors such as William Walton , Jacques Ibert , Lamberto Baldi , Felix Prohaska , Igor Markevitch , Franco Autori , Carlos Cillario , Herbert Albert , Roberto Kinsky , Teodoro Fuchs , Luis Gianneo , Olgerts Bistevins , Fritz Mahler , Carlos Chávez and Ferruccio Calusio up.
As a conductor, Fontenla led the Orquesta Sinfónica de Cuyo , the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional , the Orquesta Filarmónica de Mendoza and the Orquesta Estable del Teatro Colón and has performed in Uruguay, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Guatemala and Costa Rica. He founded the Orquesta Sinfónica de San Juan and the music school of General Roca and directed the Instituto de Arte of the Teatro Colón . For his composition Visiones crepusculares he was awarded the national prize, for the operas Sonata de Primavera (2004) and Historia de Cui-Ping-Sing he received prizes from the city of Buenos Aires. The Fondacion Konex awarded him an honorary degree as a conductor in 1999.
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- Fundacion Konex - Jorge Fontenla
- Saxophon Latinoamericano: Catálogo de Obras para saxofón de compositores de América Latina - Jorge Fontenla
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jorge Fontenla (1927-2016). In: radionacional. December 23, 2016, accessed January 15, 2020 (Spanish).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fontenla, Jorge |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine pianist, conductor and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 7, 1927 |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 22, 2016 |