Miguel Ángel Estrella

Miguel Ángel Estrella

Miguel Ángel Estrella (born July 4, 1940 in San Miguel de Tucumán ) is an Argentine classical pianist .

Life

Miguel Ángel Estrella was born on July 4, 1940 in the province of Tucumán in northern Argentina and grew up in the village of Vinará. He started playing the piano at the age of twelve. At the age of eighteen he was accepted at the National Conservatory in Buenos Aires , where he a. a. was taught by Erwin Leuchter . From 1965 he studied in London and Paris, where he was a student of Vlado Perlemuter , Yvonne Loriod , Marguerite Long and Nadia Boulanger , among others . Back in Argentina he was active in the Peronist movement and gave unpaid lessons and concerts for the poor and the underprivileged. After the military coup in 1976 and his blacklisting , he fled to Uruguay in 1977, where he was kidnapped , imprisoned and tortured by plainclothes soldiers on December 15, 1977 as one of the victims of Operation Condor . After an international campaign mainly by world-famous artists and intellectuals, led by Yehudi Menuhin and supported by human rights organizations, the UN , UNESCO and the Vatican , he was first transferred to an official prison and finally released on February 13, 1980. He was able to emigrate to France, where he was granted political asylum and French citizenship. Since then he has campaigned for human rights and the spread of music as a means of defending human dignity. For this purpose he founded the international organization Música Esperanza on December 10, 1982, the day of human rights , in German Music of Hope . It is supposed to give everyone, especially the poorest, better access to music. At the beginning of 2000 he founded the Orchestra for Peace, an ensemble of musicians of Israeli and Arab origin, which first performed in 2002. Since 1981 he has held courses on music analysis, performance, chamber music and the evolution of musical language from Bach to Fauré.

Honorary positions and awards

• Knight of the Legion of Honor (1985)
• UNESCO special envoy for the culture of peace and tolerance through music since 1989
• Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (1990)
• Nansen Refugee Prize (2000)
• Argentine National Culture Prize (Premio Cultura Nación) (2007)

Works

• with Jean Lacouture: Música para la esperanza . Ediciones de la Flor, Buenos Aires 1985, ISBN 9505159226 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Presentación ( Spanish ) Federación Música Esperanza. Archived from the original on November 7, 2004. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 20, 2008.  
2. ↑ Miguel Angel Estrella v. Uruguay, Communication No. 74/1980, UN Doc. Soup No. 40 (A / 38/40) at 150 (1983) ( English ) University of Minnesota Human Rights Library. Retrieved February 15, 2009.
3. ↑ Kristina Funkeson: The case of Miguel Angel Estrella ( English ) Freedom of Musical Expression. June 19, 2007. Archived from the original on February 1, 2009. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 15, 2009. 
4. ↑ Orquesta para la Paz ( Spanish ) Federación Música Esperanza. Archived from the original on November 8, 2004. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 15, 2009.  
5. ^ Premios Cultura Nación ( Spanish ) Secretaría de Cultura. September 25, 2007. Archived from the original on September 5, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 5, 2009.  

Web links

• Musica Esperanza (French, English, Spanish)
• Miguel Angel Estrella - UNESCO Celebrity Advocates (English)
• Orchestra for Peace (French, English)
• Discography and Awards (English)