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JUAN MANUEL ABRAS (AR) Juan Manuel Abras (*1975) Swedish-born Argentine Composer and Conductor of European descent. He began his formal studies of Piano and Violin at the “Carlos Lopez Buchardo” National Conservatory of Music-Buenos Aires (Argentina) and continued them at the “Benedetto Marcello” Conservatory-Venice (Italy), graduating from the San Sebastián High Conservatory of Music (Spain). He then studied Composition (with Roberto García Morillo) at the “Manuel de Falla” High Conservatory of Music-Buenos Aires, as well as Orchestra Conducting (area in which he later specialized with Guillermo Scarabino), graduating “cum laude” in both disciplines. He then completed Postgraduate studies in Composition (with Kurt Schwertsik) and Orchestral Conducting (with Leopold Hager) at the University (former Academy) of Music and Performing Arts-Vienna (Austria). He is currently enrolled in a Postgraduate study in Composition (with Krzysztof Penderecki) at the Academy of Music in Krakow (Poland). He attended several courses, traineeships and seminars in Composition (with Alexander Mullenbach, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Helmut Lachenmann, Wolfgang Rihm, etc.), Orchestral Conducting (with Dominique Fanal, Ervin Acél, Michael Gielen, etc.), Piano, Harpsichord, Music Pedagogy and Music History, obtaining also a Bahchelors and a Master’s Degree in History (Deusto University, Spain-USAL University, Argentina). He received, among others, the following prizes, awards and scholarships: 2nd Prize at the “Franz Josef Reinl-Stiftung” International Composition Competition 2002 (Vienna, Austria), “Gold Medal” Composition Prize 2002 (CSM “Manuel de Falla”, Argentina), “Gold Medal” Ochestral Conducting Prize 2002 (CSM “Manuel de Falla”, Argentina), “Tribune of Argentine Music” Mention 2002 (EIMC-CAMU-International Music Council-UNESCO), “National Tribune of Composers” Mention 2002 (EIMC-CAMU-IMC-International Society for Contemporary Music-UNESCO), “Theodor-Körner” Prize to the Sciences and the Arts 2003 (Vienna, Austria), "In Memoriam Erich Kleiber" Scholarship 2004 (thus providing him a traineeship at the Berlin Opera "Staatsoper Unter den Linden" with Michael Gielen and the "Staatskapelle Berlin" Orchestra), National Fund of the Arts Directory Scholarship 2005 (Argentina). Among other activities, between 1995 and 2004 he was appointed chief conductor, assistant conductor and artistic director of several Argentine orchestral organizations, actively collaborating in the dissemination of Argentine and Ibero American Music as composer, conductor, pianist and concert series organizer, working also as editor and arranger for several music institutions and publishing houses. In 2003 was invited as composer by the International Forum for Culture and Business (Germany) and in 2006 received a commission from the Argentine Foundation in Poland, being also selected as composer in residence at the European Centre for the Arts “KunstForum Hellerau” Dresden (Germany) for music sessions with the Ensemble Aleph (France), within the frame of the 4th International Forum for Young Composers (Program “Culture 2000” of the European Union). See also Interview Juan Manuel Abras. www.juanmanuelabras.com |
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