Jorge Calandrelli
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Jorge Calandrelli is an Argentine composer, arranger and orchestrator.
His truly ingenious arranging and composing techniques, especially his beautiful string writing, makes him very well recognized on many records of today's pop - jazz/ Jazz commercial record publications.
Big record stars hired him for writing arrangements, including Barbra Streisand, Tony Bennett, Celine Dion, Ricky Martin, Luis Miguel, Eddie Daniels, Barry Manilow, and many others.
One of his most interesting works is the concert for jazz clarinet and orchestra. He wrote it under the 1984 New York winter impression. With slight inflections from composers like Stravinsky and Bartók, it has 3 movements: Allegro, Adagio and Presto. Calandrelli earned for this work the "Wavedon Award" - All music composer of the year. Among others, he has been nominated for 2 Academy Awards and 22 Grammy Awards. Other credits include The Shining (1980, uncredited orchestrator), Tron (1982, orchestrator), The Color Purple (1985, adapttor and orchestrator), and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, composer, music producer).
Another of his collaborators are the outstanding conductor and composer Ettore Stratta. With Statta he recorded other 3 records based on Latin American music: boleros, bossa novas, and tango.
