Analia Llugdar (born 1972) is an Argentine

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living and working in

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since 1999. She has created both instrumental and vocal compositions, and has won several music competitions.

Early life and education

Llugdar was born in Argentina. She earned a

Bachelor of Music Bachelor of Music (BM or BMus) is an academic degree awarded by a college, university, or conservatory upon completion of a program of study in music. In the United States, it is a professional degree, and the majority of work consists of prescr ...

degree in

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performance from the

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in 1999. She then entered the graduate music program at

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, Canada, but soon transferred to the

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where she graduated with a Master of Music and a

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in composition. Among her teachers at the school were

José Evangelista José Evangelista (5 August 1943 – 10 January 2023) was a Spanish composer and music educator who was based in Montreal, Canada. He was professor of composition at the Université de Montréal from 1979 to 2009. A member of the Canadian Leagu ...

and

Denis Gougeon Denis Gougeon (born November 16, 1951) is a Canadians, Canadian composer and music educator. His more than 80 compositions encompass a wide variety of genres, including orchestral works, chamber music, opera, ballet, and pieces for solo instrumen ...

Career

Llugdar won first prize in the

chamber music Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small numb ...

category of the CBC Radio National Competition for Young Composers. She also won the Jeunesses Musicales du Canada Award and the Grand Prix of the

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, Llugdar won the 2008 Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music for her work "Que sommes-nous". Her composition "Tricycle" was performed by the Trio Fibonacci, and included on their 2009 album ''5 x 3''. In 2010 Llugdar received a $15,000 Canada Council grant. That year her composition "La Machi" was premiered in Montreal, In 2015 her musical interpretation of Frederico Garcia Lorca’s poem "Romance de la luna, luna" was premiered by soprano Kristina Szabó as part of the Soundstreams music series in Toronto."SCRUTINY , Adrianne Pieczonka Impresses Despite Uneven Program"
''Ludwig Van'', By Michael Vincent on September 30, 2015

References

External links

Canadian Music Centre Bio of Analia Llugdar
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