Juan María Solare (born August 11, 1966) is an

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composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

and

pianist A pianist ( , ) is an individual musician who plays the piano. Since most forms of Western music can make use of the piano, pianists have a wide repertoire and a wide variety of styles to choose from, among them traditional classical music, ja ...

Education

Born in

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, Solare studied and received his diploma in

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

(María Teresa Criscuolo),

composition Composition or Compositions may refer to: Arts and literature *Composition (dance), practice and teaching of choreography *Composition (language), in literature and rhetoric, producing a work in spoken tradition and written discourse, to include v ...

(Fermina Casanova, Juan Carlos Zorzi) and

conducting Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert. It has been defined as "the art of directing the simultaneous performance of several players or singers by the use of gesture." The primary duti ...

(Mario Benzecry) at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo. He also studied privately with Francisco Kröpfl. Between 1993 and 1996 he undertook postgraduate studies on Composition at the Musikhochschule in

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(Germany) under the guidance of

Johannes Fritsch Johannes Georg Fritsch (27 July 1941 – 29 April 2010) was a German composer. At the age of seven, Fritsch found a violin in the attic of his uncle's house in Bensheim-Auerbach, Germany, and began lessons with a village music teacher named Kna ...

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, and

Mauricio Kagel Mauricio Raúl Kagel (; 24 December 1931 – 18 September 2008) was an Argentine-German composer. Biography Kagel was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, into an Ashkenazi Jewish family that had fled from Russia in the 1920s . He studied music, his ...

, in the frame of a scholarship of the

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(DAAD). Between October 1997 and February 1999, he did postgraduate studies with

Helmut Lachenmann Helmut Friedrich Lachenmann (born 27 November 1935) is a German composer of contemporary classical music. His work has been associated with "instrumental musique concrète". Life and works Lachenmann was born in Stuttgart and after the end of ...

in Stuttgart. (Between July 1998 and June 1999 he held a scholarship from the Heinrich-Strobel Foundation (Baden-Baden).) Between 1999 and 2001 studied

electronic music Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroac ...

with in

, with diploma. From June 2001 until May 2002 he was composer in residence at the , Germany. In April 2005 he obtained the title "''Licenciado en Composición''" (Master's degree) from the Instituto Universitario Nacional del Arte ( IUNA) in Buenos Aires. Since 1993 he has regularly attended and participated in seminars given by

Karlheinz Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He is known for his groun ...

. He passed the ''Konzertexamen'' (master) in electroacoustic composition at the Musikhochschule in

on 5 December 2007. Currently he is working on a PhD in music education at the

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Teaching positions

From 1986 until 1993 he taught harmony, morphology, and chamber music at the Conservatory of

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(

). Since January 2002 he has given piano lessons at the Musikschule

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(Germany). Since October 2002 he has conducted the Orquesta No Típica, a chamber music group devoted to

tango Tango is a partner dance and social dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay. The tango was born in the impoverished port areas of these countries as the result of a combina ...

at the

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. Since October 2004 he has taught piano at the

Hochschule für Künste Bremen The University of the Arts Bremen (German: Hochschule für Künste Bremen, HfK Bremen) is a public university in Bremen, Germany. It is one of the most successful arts institutions, and its origins date back to 1873. The University of the Arts Br ...

. From December 2007 to April 2008 he was assistant professor at the

. Since 2008 he has taught New Music Theatre at the

, where he conducts the Ensemble Kagel. He has given courses and lectures on contemporary music at the ''Institut für neue Musik und Musikerziehung'' (

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), the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance ( SEAD), the

Ateneo de Madrid The Ateneo de Madrid ("Athenæum of Madrid") is a private cultural institution located in the capital of Spain that was founded in 1835. Its full name is ''Ateneo Científico, Literario y Artístico de Madrid'' ("Scientific, Literary and Artistic ...

, the Université permanente (

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, France), and the

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(

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). In addition, he teaches piano and composition privately, and has presented public seminars on tango music.

Compositions

Solare has composed around 300 works, over half of them already performed. His pieces are broadcast regularly (

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Salzburg, Radio Universitaria São Paulo,

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(WDR), Radio Berlin Brandenburg,

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). In 2002 he received a commission from the CDMC (Centro para la Difusión de la Música Contemporánea,

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), in 2003 from the

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(Düsseldorf); in 2004 again from CDMC (Spain) and from the Landesmusikrat Bremen ( Bremen Music Council), in 2011 from Eva Espoleta (Geneva). On 30 June 2004 his ''Concertango'' was premiered by the Orchestra of the Universität Bremen (cond.: Susanne Gläß).

Film music

He also composed the music for six short films: * Desde la ventana ("From the window"), autobiographical documentary film of the Colombian Santiago Herrera Gómez, Cologne, February 1996. * Mesa para dos (Table for two) by Medardo Amor and Angel Almazán, Madrid, August 2003. * Electroacoustic music for the experimental short film 'Bipolar' by the German director Axel Largo, Bonn, June 2006. * Music for the old (1951) scientific silent short film 'Verformung von Metallkristallen' (The Deformation of Metal Crystals, catalogue number C 611 of the IWF, Institut für Film und Bild in Wissenschaft und Unterricht, Abteilung Hochschule und Forschung,

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) by Günter Wassermann (Clausthal). Premiere: cinema Metrópolis,

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, 10 June 2007. * Corazón en sombras (Heart in shadows) by Medardo Amor and Angel Almazán, Madrid, December 2007. *

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by Katarina Stankovich, Cologne, June 2011. Solare has also written music for internet animations, mainly for movies of the Catalan artist Nuria Juncosa.

Pianist

As a pianist, his repertoire has four centers: classical music from the late Romanticism (such as

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), contemporary classical (

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), Argentine composers (including

;

Ástor Piazzolla Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla (, ; March 11, 1921 – July 4, 1992) was an Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player, and arranger. His works revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed '' nuevo tango'', incorporating elements fr ...

), and his own compositions – both as soloist and in different chamber music groups, notably: * Duo Tangente (violin -Gert Gondosch- and piano) * Tango Nomade (saxophone -Eduardo Kohan- and piano) Solare has performed in cities of Argentina, Germany, the rest of Europe and USA: *

& its suburban areas,

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, Zárate, Córdoba,

, Mendoza, Tucumán,

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, Verden,

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, Seinäjoki (Finland). * College Station (Texas),

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(Texas) His first professional recording as a pianist was in July 2006 in

: together with the Saxophonist Eduardo Kohan he recorded the CD '' Tango Nómade''. His first solo cd appeared in January 2010: '' Tango Monologues''. Recording ("digital only" versions, as EP) of his pieces "Acuarelas junto al río inmóvil" (2014), "Aphorismen" (2014), and "Sechs kleine Klavierstücke" von

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(2014). Juan María Solare also participated with Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame, a concert performance series with

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Conductor

* 2002–present: Conductor of the Orquesta No Típica at the Universität Bremen * 2012–2014: Conductor of the Jacobs Chamber Orchestra at the Jacobs University Bremen * 2013–present: Conductor of the symphonic orchestra of the Bremer OrchesterGemeinschaft

Awards

His compositions have been awarded prizes and awards in *

Promociones Musicales 1990, Fondo Nacional de las Artes 1996, Tribuna Argentina de Compositores 1999, Tribuna Argentina de Música Electroacústica 2002, Federación Argentina de Música Electroacústica 2005, *

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(British & International Bass Forum 1999, Rarescale/Royal College of Music 2004), *

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(Yage und Aspekte Salzburg 2000), *

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(Walter Witte Viola-Stiftung 2001, Bremer Komponistenwettbewerb 2004) and *

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(Radio Clásica-CDMC 2004). As a pianist, Solare received awards at the following competitions: * Competition for Young Pianists "Cincuentenario de la Fundación Educacional Jrimián" (50th Anniversary of the Khrimian Educational Foundation) awarded by the ''Asociación Cultural Armenia'', in Lanús (

) in November 1980. * As a member of the improvisation ensemble ''Die Kugel'', 2nd prize at the "6. Internationaler Wettberwerb für junge Kultur 2000" (6th international competition for young culture) at the Saal Heinersdorff Pianohaus (Steinway-Haus)

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, within the frame of the Festival "Düsseldorfer Altstadt Herbst" (SEP 2000).

Jury member

* In January 2002 he served on the piano jury in the competition

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. * In March 2004 jury in the National competition for young pianists "piccole mani" (

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, Italy) with a piece of him in each category as "obligatory piece". * In September 2004 he was on the jury (composition) in the competition "Xicöatl" (Salzburg). * 2006 member of the jury of composition contest at the ''World Music Days'' (Stuttgart) * In 2007, Jury of the clarinet competition Maratón Musical Clariperú with his piece ''Convalecencia'' as obligatory piece.

Recordings

Thirteen CDs from different performers include at least one of his pieces: * "Panorama de la música argentina (compositores nacidos entre 1965–1969)". Fondo Nacional de las Artes. IRCO 318 (with three of his ''Siete Monedas'' for flute, viola and cello). * "Pifferari – Werke für Flöte und Klarinette", Juli 2001. Regine Kuhn (flute) and Heidi Voss (clarinet); Edition Voss (Wiesbaden, Germany) ncludes the "Suite Modal"* "60x60: 2003" (various composers). Capstone Records CPS-8744 (released 2004). Includes ''Nice Noise'' (track 54). * Natalia González, pianist: ''Concierto Tango''. 2005, Pretal PRCD 127 (includes ''Mozartango'') * Duo Eduardo Kohan – Juan Solare (saxophone & piano), ''Tango Nómade''. 2006 (includes ''Tengo un tango'', ''Sale con fritas'', ''Tango en ciernes'', ''Octango'' & ''Nómade'') * Trío Thelema. 2006 (Includes ''Hypnosis'') * Mariana Levitin (cello) & Guillermo Carro (piano), in the CD ''Los compositores académicos argentinos y el tango II (1879–2007)'' / Argentine classical composers and the tango II (1879–2007). 2007. Pretal PRCD 138 (includes "Nómade" 2nd movement from ''Sonatango'' in version for

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and

). * "Parajes", Label IRCO 1263 (SKU: 7147) (2009), with ''Vacío Blanco'' performed by Silvia Dabul (piano) & Víctor Torres (bariton). * '' Tango Monologues'', 2010. Juan María Solare (piano). (Features 12 pieces by Solare: ''Pasaje Seaver'', '' Valsarín'', ''Tengo un tango'', ''Para Lisa'', ''Milonga fría'', ''Atonalgotán'', '' Fragmentango'', ''Akemilonga'', ''Liebergmilonga'', ''Talismán'', ''Furor'' and ''Reencuentro''.) * ''Argentine Cello'', 2011. Zoe Knighton (cello) &

Amir Farid Amir Farid ( fa, امیر فرید) is an United States, American-born Iranian-Australian classical pianist and chamber musician based in Melbourne. He is also the pianist member of Benaud Trio as well as the principal accompanist for the senior pe ...

(piano).

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(Australia), MD 3347. (includes ''Tengo un tango'', ''Nómade'' -''from Sonatango''- and ''Talismán''). * ''Tango Music Award 2011'', 2011. Cafe Tango Orchestra (cond.: Judy Ruks). Cafe Tango Productions, Stuttgart 2011. Includes ''Barro sublevado'' (Track 15). * ''Ideas y emociones'', 2012. Label Fonocal, Productor: Saúl Cosentino. Includes ''Reencuentro'', recorded by Leonardo Suárez Paz (violin) + Juan María Solare (piano). (Track 15). * ''Pasión argentina'' (tango & chamber music), 2013. Label Ultramar Music Argentina. Ultramar ensemble: Paula Gasparini (flute), Tamara Moser (piano) and Pablo Pizarro (cello). Includes ''Tengo un tango'' (track 2) in version for flute, cello and piano. * '' Gardel al piano''. Label Janus Music & Sound, 2014 (JMS-003). Juan María Solare, piano, EP with six tracks composed by

Carlos Gardel Carlos Gardel (born Charles Romuald Gardès; 11 December 1890 – 24 June 1935) was a French-born Argentine singer, songwriter, composer and actor, and the most prominent figure in the history of tango. He was one of the most influential inte ...

. * '' Himmelsrichtungen'' (Cardinal Points). Label Janus Music & Sound, 2016 (JMS-008). Juan María Solare, piano, EP with six tracks composed by himself.

Interviews

*
Your Story: Juan María Solare
' blog Pianodao, November 2017. *
Interview with Juan María Solare
', by Anna Sutyagina from the blog Moving Classics TV (September 2018) *
Mit Musik durch’s Leben
', Blog ProntoPro (in German), May 2020. *
An Interview with Juan María Solare
', blog Secret Eclectic, June 2020.

Works dedicated to him

Solare has been dedicated pieces by several colleagues: * "Para la mano derecha" (For the right hand) by Pedro Sáenz, 1992. * "Rosales olorosos a Solare", electro-humour-acoustic music by

Gabriel Pareyon Gabriel Pareyon (born October 23, 1974, Zapopan, Jalisco) is a polymathic Mexican composer and musicologist, who has published literature on topics of philosophy and semiotics. He has a Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Helsinki, whe ...

(after a poem by G. Ropenay), DEC/2002 * "Un marzo triste", piano piece by Saúl Cosentino, 2003. * "Lo que se fue", chamber tango by Jorge Pítari, 2005. * "Tres minitangos" for piano by Jorge Pítari, 2006. * "Solare-Tango", chamber tango by Luis Mihovilcevic (second of the "Serie de tangos de nobles afinidades"), 2007. * "El canto nocturnal de los caracoles" for piano, by Luis Mihovilcevic, 2005. * "Meditativo" for piano, by Juliane Dehning, 2008. * "Amanecer en la terrible Buenos Aires", milonga for piano, by Claudio Maldonado, 2009. * "Contemplación", piano piece by Saúl Cosentino, 2009. * "Wintergesang" (Winter song) for cello & piano, by Juliane Dehning, 2009. * "Milonga meets Malambo", piece for cello and piano by Juan Manuel Abras, 2011. * ''Daydreams of Gardel on the Orbits of Saturn'' for piano solo, by Rodrigo Baggio, 2012. * ''Tango-lá'' for piano solo, by Micky Landau, 2012. * ''Y se alejó por el camino de los cipreses'' for piano solo, by Luis Menacho, 2012. * ''Pussycat Tango'' for piano solo, by Kelly M. Curran, 2012. * ''Algo neto'' for piano solo, by Valentín Pelisch, 2012. * ''Tango Triste'' for piano solo, by Leonard Mark Lewis, 2012. * ''Tango del Minuto'' for piano solo, by José Hernán Civils, 2012. * ''Expulsado de la Milonga'' for piano solo, by Douglas DaSilva, 2012. * ''Sin-Con Ciencia'' for piano solo, by Moxi Beidenegl, 2012. * ''tango sostenido'' for piano solo, by Jon Aveyard, 2012. * ''Napoleon's Tango'' for piano solo, by Daniel Arnold, 2012. * ''Today and Tomorrow'' for piano solo, by Bob Siebert, 2012. * Picture ''Beständigkeit des Nebels'' (Solidity of Mist), by walkala (Luis Alfredo Duarte Herrera), Salzburg, July 2007. 100 cm x 150 cm, acrylic on canvas.

Publications

Some of his works have been published by Dohr Verlag (Cologne), Ricordi München (Munich), and

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(Hamburg). Beside his compositional and pianistic activities he also has written for diverse publications, such as the ''

New Grove ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians. Along with the German-language ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'', it is one of the largest reference works on the history and theor ...

'' (Solare 2001), '' La Sibila'' Sevilla, '' Doce Notas'' and ''

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'' Madrid, '' Pauta'' and ''L'Orfeo'' (Mexico), ''

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'' (UK), as well as for the radio stations

and Südwestfunk ( SWF). About 30 of his 200 published articles (mostly in Solare's mother tongue, Spanish) can be found online.

References

* Cabello, Natalia. 2006. "Sobre 'Pasaje Seaver' de Juan María Solare". Conservatorio Municipal Manuel de Falla, Buenos Aires. * Choong Cheong, Yew. 2009. "An introduction to the solo piano works of three Latin American composers: Miguel del Aguila, Tania León and Juan María Solare", West Virginia University (College of Creative Arts), USA. Tutor: Dr. David Taddie. * Heward, Maria. 2008. "Argentine Piano music since 2000". BYU (Brigham Young University), USA. * * Liberatori, Ligia. 1999. "Solare, Juan María". Emilio Casares Rodicio (editor), "Diccionario de Música Española e Hispanoamericana", Vol. 9 (Madrid, 2002), pages 1112–1113. * Peltzer Meschini, Carolina María & Zucherino, Leticia. 2008. "Reflexiones Sobre la Notación Musical en la Música Contemporánea Argentina". Universidad nacional de La Plata (UNLP), Argentina. * Piehl, Cecilia Irene. 2007. "Argentinean Music for Flute Alone: an Annotated Bibliography". University Alabama, USA. * Piñero Gil, Carmen Cecilia. "caballero de la triste figura (jinete de quimérica montura), El". Article in the Gran Enciclopedia Cervantina, page 1601. Centro de Estudios Cervantinos, Editorial Casalia. * Piñero Gil, Carmen Cecilia. 2009. ''El caballero de la triste figura (jinete de quimérica montura): monólogo quijotesco de Juan María Solare''. II CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL CERVANTES Y EL QUIJOTE EN LA MÚSICA DEL SIGLO XX. TRADICIÓN Y VANGUARDIA. MÚSICAS CERVANTINAS EN AMÉRICA. Lecture on 4 November 2009, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). * Ruiz, Nora. 2008. "La relación entre la astronomía y la música académica argentina a partir del siglo XX". Departamento de Artes Sonoras y Musicales "Carlos López Buchardo", IUNA (Instituto Universitario Nacional del Arte), Buenos Aires. * Saftich, Amelia María. 2015. "La presencia del tango en la obra para clarinete del compositor Juan María Solare". Dissertation, 2015, Departamento de Artes Sonoras y Musicales of the UNA (Universidad Nacional de las Artes), Buenos Aires. Tutor: Lic. Cristina Vázquez. * Sauer, Theresa. 2007. "Notations 21" (includes his piece 'Palinsesto Senso'). American Musicological Association, USA. * Solare, Juan María. 2001. "Sáenz (Amadeo), Pedro (Alejo)". ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', ed. S. Sadie and J. Tyrrell. London: Macmillan. * Solare, Juan María. 2009. "Die Neugierde ist grenzenlos (ein posthumes Interview mit Mauricio Kagel)". ''KunstMusik'' no. 12 (Summer): 10–39. ISSN 1612-6173 * Stashik, Katharina. 2005. "Die Verwendung des Saxophons in der zeitgenössischen Musik nach 1970. Eine Analyse". Hochschule für Musik Köln (Germany).

External links

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biography, works catalogue and list of published articles
(German and Spanish)
Biography, works catalogue, list of published articles (some with text) and some scores
(English and Spanish)

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