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Miguel Ángel Estrella (4 July 1940 – 7 April 2022) was an Argentine pianist,
UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador
UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador is an official postnominal honorific title, title of authority, legal status and job description assigned to those goodwill ambassadors and advocates who are designated by the United Nations. UNESCO goodwill ambassad ...
, and a juror of the
Russell Tribunal
The Russell Tribunal, also known as the International War Crimes Tribunal, Russell–Sartre Tribunal, or Stockholm Tribunal, was a private People's Tribunal organised in 1966 by Bertrand Russell, British philosopher and Nobel Prize winner, and ...
.
As a pianist, he numbered
Celia de Bronstein,
Erwin Leuchter, and
Nadia Boulanger
Juliette Nadia Boulanger (; 16 September 188722 October 1979) was a French music teacher and conductor. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century, and also performed occasionally as a pianist and organist.
From a ...
among his mentors.
He was born in
San Miguel de Tucumán
San Miguel de Tucumán (; usually called simply Tucumán) is the capital and largest city of Tucumán Province, located in northern Argentina from Buenos Aires. It is the fifth-largest city of Argentina after Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Rosario an ...
, Argentina. He went into exile on 1976 during the
National Reorganization Process
The National Reorganization Process (Spanish: ''Proceso de Reorganización Nacional'', often simply ''el Proceso'', "the Process") was the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983, in which it was supported by the United Sta ...
and was imprisoned and tortured in 1977 by the
Civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay
The civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay (1973–85), also known as the Uruguayan Dictatorship, was an authoritarian military dictatorship that ruled Uruguay for 12 years, from June 27, 1973 (after the U.S. backed 1973 coup d'état) until Ma ...
. He was released in 1980.
From 2007 to 2016 he was the Argentine ambassador to the
UNESCO
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and in 2010 he performed in the
Estudio País Bicentenario programme broadcast by the state-run
Canal Siete. On 11 March 2013, he was honoured by the
Argentine Senate
The Honorable Senate of the Argentine Nation ( es, Honorable Senado de la Nación Argentina) is the upper house of the National Congress of Argentina.
Overview
The National Senate was established by the Argentine Confederation on July 29, 185 ...
for his career and his
defense of human rights.
Miguel Ángel Estrella recibió la distinción de honor del Senado
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He died in Paris, France.
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1940 births
2022 deaths
Argentine classical pianists
People from San Miguel de Tucumán
Argentine torture victims
Recipients of the Legion of Honour
Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Permanent Delegates of Argentina to UNESCO
UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors
Nansen Refugee Award laureates