Osvaldo Golijov

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Osvaldo Noé Golijov (born in La Plata, Argentina, December 5, 1960) [1] is a Grammy award winning composer of classical music.

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[edit] Biography

Osvaldo Golijov (pronounced [ˈgolixof]) grew up in La Plata, Argentina [1] within a family that had come to Argentina in the 1920s from Romania and the Ukraine. As a boy, Golijov studied Yiddish.

Golijov's Romanian mother was a piano teacher and his Ukrainian father a physician. He was raised "surrounded by chamber classical music, Jewish liturgical and klezmer music, and the new tango of Ástor Piazzolla," according to his official website. He studied piano at the local conservatory in La Plata and studied composition with Gerardo Gandini.

In 1983 Golijov moved to Israel and studied there with Mark Kopytman at the Jerusalem Rubin Academy and three years later, a year after marrying Silvia Golijov, moved to the United States of America where he studied with American composer George Crumb in the University of Pennsylvania before receiving his Ph.D. [1]

Golijov has received a MacArthur Fellowship, [1] among other awards. He has been composer-in-residence at the Spoleto USA Festival, the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Music Alive series, the Marlboro Music School and Festival, the Ravinia Festival, and several other festivals. He also is co-composer-in-residence, together with the English composer Mark-Anthony Turnage, of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. [1]

Golijov is Associate Professor of Music at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he has taught since 1991. He is also on the faculty of the Boston Conservatory [1]. He lives with his family in Newton, Massachusetts. [2]

[edit] Golijov's music

Golijov and composers Sofia Gubaidulina, Tan Dun, and Wolfgang Rihm were commissioned by the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart to write pieces for the Passion 2000 project in commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach. Golijov's contribution was La Pasión según San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark).

He has also composed and arranged works for the Kronos Quartet and the St. Lawrence String Quartet. [1] He frequently works with Venezuelan conductor Maria Guinand, classical and Klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer, and American soprano Dawn Upshaw, who performed premieres of his new opera, Ainadamar (and Arias and Ensembles derived from it) at the Santa Fe Opera Festival in 2005, London's Barbican Arts Centre in 2006 and Opera Boston in 2007. He composed for Francis Ford Coppola's movie Youth Without Youth [3] and is composing original music for Coppola's next movie Tetro. [4]

Golijov won two Grammys in the Grammy Awards of 2007 - the Best Opera Recording for Ainadamar: Fountain Of Tears and Best Classical Contemporary Composition for the same opera. [5]

[edit] Discography

  • Oceana (Deutsche Grammophon, 2007)
  • Ainadamar (Deutsche Grammophon, Dawn Upshaw, Robert Spano, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra)
  • Ayre (Deutsche Grammophon CD 00289 477 5414)
  • La Pasión según San Marcos The Passion according to St. Mark (Hänssler Classic 98404)
  • Yiddishbbuk (EMI Classics 57356-2)
  • The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind (Nonesuch 79444)
  • Nuevo arrangements for the Kronos Quartet (Nonesuch 79649)
  • The Man Who Cried (soundtrack) (Sony Classical SK 61870)
  • Caravan arrangements for the Kronos Quartet (Nonesuch 79490)
  • Voices of Light Golijov songs sung by soprano Dawn Upshaw (Nonesuch 79812)
  • Night Prayers Golijov's composition K'vakarat on recording of the Kronos Quartet (Nonesuch 79346)
  • World to Come Golijov's composition Mariel played by cellist Maya Beiser (Koch Int'l Classics B0000CABC4)
  • Goulash composition Oración Lucumí on recording by the cellist Matt Haimovitz (Oxingale)
  • Anthem - Golijov's composition Omaramor on recording by cellist Matt Haimovitz (Oxingale 1238)
  • Klezmer Concertos and Encores composition Rocketekya on recording of klezmer music (Naxos B0000C508L)
  • Borromeo String Quartet Living Archive February 29, 2004 (CD/DVD/VHS) Golijov's compositions Yiddishbbuk and Tenebrae
  • Voices of our Time - Dawn Upshaw (DVD) Golijov's composition Lúa Descolorida (TDK VTDU)

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Osvaldo Golijov: Biography. Retrieved on 2006-12-03.
  2. ^ Newton composer bowls over Bowie. Retrieved on 2006-12-03.
  3. ^ Youth without Youth at the Internet Movie Database
  4. ^ Tetro at the Internet Movie Database
  5. ^ Yahoo! Music 49th Grammy Awards Winners in the Classical Category. Retrieved on 2006-02-12.

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