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Juan Manuel Abras (born February 1, 1975) is a Swedish-born Argentine composer and conductor of European descent. Considered by the specialized press as a member of the new generation of Argentine classical music artists, he was appointed chief conductor, assistant conductor and artistic director of several Argentine orchestral organizations, actively collaborating in the dissemination of Argentine and Ibero American music as composer, conductor, pianist and concert series organizer. His compositions - for diverse instrumental, vocal and electronic forces – have been premiered and performed in different countries of Europe and the Americas. He is a member of the Argentine Composers Association (former National Music Society, founded in 1915) and of the Argentine Society of Authors and Composers (SADAIC).

Biography

He studied piano and violin at the “Carlos Lopez Buchardo” National Conservatory of Music (now National University Institute of Art) Buenos Aires (Argentina) and continued his studies at the “Benedetto Marcello” Conservatory Venice (Italy), graduating from the San Sebastián High Conservatory of Music (Spain). He then studied Composition (with Roberto Garcia Morillo) at the “Manuel de Falla” High Conservatory of Music (Buenos Aires), as well as Orchestra Conducting (area in which he later specialized with Guillermo Scarabino), graduating “cum laude” in both disciplines. He continued his Postgraduate studies in Composition (with Kurt Schwertsik) and Orchestral Conducting (with Leopold Hager) at the University (former Academy) of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Austria).

He attended –in Europe and Argentina– several courses, traineeships and seminars on Composition (with Alexander Mullenbach, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Helmut Lachenmann, Wolfgang Rihm, etc.), Orchestral Conducting (with Dominique Fanal, Ervin Acél, Michael Gielen, etc.), Piano, Music Pedagogy and Music History, obtaining also a Bahchelors and a Master’s Degree in History (Deusto University, Spain / USAL University, Argentina).

Among others, he received the following prizes, awards and scholarships: 2nd Prize at the “Franz Josef Reinl-Stiftung” International Composition Competition 2002 (Vienna, Austria), “Gold Medal” Composition Prize 2002 (CSM “Manuel de Falla” of Buenos Aires, Argentina), “Gold Medal” Ochestral Conducting Prize 2002 (CSM “Manuel de Falla” of Buenos Aires), “Tribune of Argentine Music” Mention 2002 (EIMC-CAMU-IMC-UNESCO), “National Tribune of Composers” Mention 2002 (EIMC-CAMU-IMC-ISCM-UNESCO), “Theodor-Körner” Prize to the Sciences and the Arts 2003 (Vienna, Austria), "In Memoriam Erich Kleiber" Scholarship 2004, etc.

List of works

Chamber Music & Solo voice and piano:

Seriallemande (for piano 4 hands) La Fuga de Valentino. Grosse Fugal a 6 (for piano 6 hands) Seis piezas neobarrocas (for 2, 3 and 4 instruments) Variaciones sobre una "Tontería cromática" de 1995 (for flute, clarinet in Bb, horn and piano) Preludio macabro (for flute, cello and piano) Ave María (for soprano and piano) La última batalla (for soprano and piano) De princesas y castillos (for tenor and piano) Drunken fugue (for sax trio) Trío de Sondika-Abasto (for flute, clarinet in Bb and piano) Magia Azurra (for violin, cello and piano) Elegía (for double bass and piano) Sonata (for cello and piano) Ricercare (for flute, clarinet, violin and cello) Quatuor pour un petite soldat du plomb (for string quartet) Pequeña ingrata (for flute and string quintet) Thetesis (for string quartet) Sedekte. Quínteto dodecatánguico (for bandoneon and string quartet) Sueño y chacarera (for flute and clarinet in Bb) Suite Argentina (for chamber ensemble) Harmonie - Alpha et Omega (text by Otto Vincenzi) (for soprano and piano) Kleriodapsis. Doppel Konzert (for violin, cello and chamber ensemble)

Solo instrument, tape & Electroacustic Music:

Sonata Medina (for piano) Suite barroca (for piano) ¿Libertas? 47 (for keyboard instrument) Humane Vitae (for sax and tape) Humane Vitae (solo tape version)

Symphonic Orchestra & String Orchestra:

La Fuga de Valentino. Grosse fugal a 6 (symphonic orchestra version) Tres micropiezas contemporáneas (symphonic orchestra version) Quatuor pour un petite soldat du plomb (string orchestra version) Esencia de Duende (symphonic orchestra version) Thetesis (string orchestra version) Sedekte. Concierto dodecatánguico (for bandoneon and string orchestra) Suite del castillo de Arteaga (symphonic orchestra version) Suite Argentina (symphonic orchestra version)

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