Mariano Moruja

Mariano Moruja (born August 23, 1958 ) is an Argentine choir conductor and music teacher.

Moruja studied guitar and choral conducting at the Conservatorio Municipal de Música Manuel de Falla in Buenos Aires. His teachers included u. a. Rodolfo van der Meulen , Vilma Gorini , Enrique Cipolla , Virtú Maragno , Sergio Hualpa and José Maranzano . He continued his training with Carlos López Puccio , attended courses from Francisco Kröpfl and Robert Shaw and took singing lessons from Víctor Torres .

From 1979 to 1983 he headed the Grupo Vocal Mastregal . Since 1988 he has been the director of the Grupo Vocal de Difusión (GVD), an ensemble specializing in music of the 20th century. With this he recorded two albums: one with compositions by Robert Louis Pearsall , Darius Milhaud , Herbert Howells and Frank Martin and one with Argentinean folk music. In 1991 he was a laureate of the Interpretación de Música Coral course at the music camp in Bariloche.

In 1995 Moruja with the GVD was awarded the prize for the best interpretation of contemporary music at the international choir competition in Marktoberdorf. He took part in concert cycles for contemporary music of the Teatro Municipal General San Martín and the Centro de Experimentación at the Teatro Colón and in 1996 founded a concert cycle with the GVD at the Church of San Ildefonso . With the soloist ensemble Diapasón Sur , which he founded , he took part in the world premiere of the chamber opera Richter by Mario Lorenzo and Esteban Buch at the Teatro Colón and in Paris in 2003 . In 2009 he was awarded the honorary diploma of Fundacion Konex as a choir director.

From 1983 to 1985 Moruja taught musical language, choral conducting and music education at the Escuela Municipal de Música de Concepción in Uruguay. From 1984 he taught at the Drama School Río Plateado of Hugo Midón . In 1985 he became professor of choral practice, musical language, instrumental accompaniment and voice training at the Conservatorio Superior de Música Manuel de Falla . The following year he became a professor at the Escuela de Arte Dramático , where he founded the musical theater seminar.

In 1999 Moruja gave workshops at the International Choral Music Symposium in Rotterdam. Between 2003 and 2009 he participated in the Arte Rodante and Escuelas Itinerantes de Música projects of the Argentine Ministry of Culture. From 2008 to 2010 he was an advisor to the Arts Education Department of the City of Buenos Aires. Since 2007 he has been Professor of Choral Conducting at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata .

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SURNAME	Moruja, Mariano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Argentinian choir director and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	23rd August 1958