Esteban Benzecry (born 1970) is an Argentine classical composer.
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Argentinean composer born in Lisbon in 1970 (of Argentinean parents), after growing up in Argentina he has lived in France since 1997, and obtained French nationality in 2011. He studied musical composition with Sergio Hualpa and Haydee Gerardi in Argentina. He moved to Paris in 1997, where he studied composition with Jacques Charpentier's, Professor of the Conservatoire Superieur de Paris. He obtained the "Premier Prix a l'unanimitè" in composition in 1999. He also studied composition with Paul Méfano, and Electro acoustic music with Luis Naon and Laurent Cuniot.
In 1992 he was distinguished as "The young revelation of the Season" by the Musical Critics Association of Argentina. In 1994 the same association awarded him "The best Argentine work premiered in the 1994 Season” distinction, for his Symphony n°1 "El compendio de la vida", played by the National Symphony Orchestra. He has been a fellow of the "Interamerican Music Friends of Washington "(USA), Mozarteum Argentino and Academie des Beaux-Arts de l'Institut de France. In 1995 he was invited as Resident Composer at the Yehudi Menuhin Academy (Switzerland).
In 1999 he was distinguished by the Academie des Beaux-Arts de l'Institut de France with the prize from the Foundation Delmas, the prize Tronchet in 2002 and the prize Georges Wildenstein in 2006. In 2004, he received the Fondation groupe d’entreprise Banque Populaire-Natexis Award for music. He is Resident Composer at the Casa de Velazquez of Madrid 2004-2006 (Academie de France a Madrid). In 2008 he received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for Music Composition.
He is the author of three symphonies (his first symphony, “El compendio de la vida” from 1993 is inspired on four of his own canvases) as well as symphonic and chamber works. His most recent works attempt a fusion between rhythms with Latin American roots and the diverse aesthetic currents of European contemporary music creating, thus, a personal language, an imaginary folklore.
Le Monde de la Musique has called him a distant heir to Villa-Lobos and Ginastera because of his imaginative use of the Latin-American musical patrimony.
His works have been played in Europe and the United States. Among the interpreters that have performed his works are: Los Angeles Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic, Tampere Philharmonic, Stavanger Symfoniorkester, Orquesta Gulbenkian of Lisbon, Orquesta Sinfonica de RTVE (Radio Televisión Española), Orchestre National de France, Orchestre National de Montpellier, Orchestre Colonne de Paris, Orchestre de Concerts Pasdeloup, Orchestre Lamoureux, Orchestre Symphonique de Cannes-Côte d’Azur, la Sinfonietta de Paris, Orchestre de la Basse Normandie, Orchestre Universitaire de Strasbourg, l’ensemble l’Itineraire, Grup Instrumental de Valencia, Ensamble LIM, Orquesta Sinfonica National de Argentine, Orquesta Filarmonica del Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires, Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar de Venezuela, Orquesta Filarmonica Nacional de Venezuela, Orquesta Filarmonica de Bogota (Colombia), Orquesta Sinfonica de Chile, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional (Peru), l’Ensemble de l’Université Carnegie-Mellon de Pittsburgh (USA), Orchestre Symphonique de Klaipėda (Lituanie), Orquesta Sinfonica Carlos Chavez (Mexique) la Camerata Lysy - Gstaad (Suisse), la Camerata Basel (Suisse), la Camerata Bariloche (Argentine), “London’s Schubert Chamber Orchestra” (UK), and Solaris String quartet of London,Filarmonica de Stat Targu Mures (Roumanie) Gustavo Dudamel, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, David Alan Miller, Laurent Petitgirard, Alain Altinoglu, Daniel Kawka, Wolfgang Doerner, Mark Foster, Alain Pâris, Nemanja Radulovic, Rolf Schulte, Alberto Lysy, Sol Gabetta, Horacio Lavandera, Jesus Castro Balbi among others.
His works have been performed and at the Sydney Opera House, Salle Pleyel, Salle GAVEAU, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Theatre Mogador, Maison de Radio France, Palais de l’Unesco de Paris, Palais des Festivals a Cannes, Opera de Montpellier, Finlandia Hall, Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires, Auditorio Nacional de Madrid, Festival de Islas Canarias, Festival Rencontres d’ensembles de violoncelles de Beauvais, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Juilliard School of New York (Lincoln Center), Boston Conservatory, Chopin Conservatory of Music (Poland) Festival Pontino (Italy), Festivals de Brighton et Dartington (UK), Festival Estoril de Portugal, Musica Viva Festival - Miso Music Portugal, Festival Ensems de Valencia, Festival de Morelia (Mexico), Festival Latinoamericano de Musica de Caracas, Festival Iberoamericano de Puerto Rico, museo Guggenheim de Bilbao-Festival BBK, and the Van Cliburn Foundation in Fort Worth, Texas...
Pre-Columbian Tryptic for Orchestra.
I – Ehécatl ( Azteca wind god) II – Chaac ( Maya water god) III – Illapa (Inca thunderclap god) .
Dirección: Jesús Villa Rojo LIM CD 020
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