Esteban Benzecry

Esteban Benzecry

Esteban Benzecry (born 1970 in Lisbon) is an Argentine classical composer.

Early years

Benzecry was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1970 to Argentine parents. He grew up in Argentina where he studied musical composition with Sergio Hualpa and Haydee Gerardi. He moved to Paris in 1997, where he studied composition with Jacques Charpentier, 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. He became a French citizen in 2011.

Career

In 1992 he was named "The young revelation of the Season" by the Musical Critics Association of Argentina. In 1994 the same association named his Symphony n°1 "El compendio de la vida", played by the National Symphony Orchestra, as "The best Argentine work premiered in the 1994 Season". He has been a fellow of the Interamerican Music Friends of Washington (USA), Mozarteum Argentino,[1] and Academie des Beaux-Arts de l'Institut de France.[2] In 1995 he was invited as Resident Composer at the Yehudi Menuhin Academy (Switzerland).

The Academie des Beaux-Arts de l'Institut de France[3] awarded him the prize from the Foundation Delmas in 1999, 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[4] of Madrid for 2004-2006 (Academie de France a Madrid). In 2008 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Music Composition.

Compositions

He has written three symphonies. His first symphony, "El compendio de la vida" (1993) was inspired by four of his own canvases. He has also written other 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 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.

Performances

His works have been played in Europe and the United States. Among the interpreters that have performed his works are: The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, 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, Jesús Castro-Balbi, among others.

His works have been performed and at the Sydney Opera House, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Royal Festival Hall in London, 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...

Selected works

Orchestra
String orchestra
Concertante
Large ensemble (6 or more players)
Chamber music
Piano

Recordings

- FWSO LIVE - Caminos del Inka - Filarmonika Publishing

References

  1. ↑ Mozarteum Argentino
  2. ↑ Academie des Beaux-Arts de l'Institut de France
  3. ↑ Academie des Beaux-Arts de l'Institut de France
  4. ↑ Casa de Velazquez

External links

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