Gastón Arce Sejas

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Gastón Arce Sejas (December 25, 1963) is a Bolivian performer, conductor, pedagogue and composer of contemporary music. His work is considered as one of the main references of Bolivia’s modern music from the last two decades.

He was born in La Paz, after taking private lessons of music theory, piano and viola in his youth, he began formal musical studies in 1983 at La Plata's National University Faculty of Beaux Arts in Argentina, under the guidance of Argentinean composer Mariano Etkin. He returned to Bolivia in 1991, short after obtaining the License degree in Composition, Orchestral Conducting and Musical Morphology, being appointed Professor of Composition in the National Conservatory of Music located in the city of La Paz.