Gabriel Garrido
Gabriel Garrido ( born 1950 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine musician, musicologist and conductor who is primarily in the field of historical performance practice operates.
Life and work
At the age of 17 years, Gabriel Garrido was a member of the Argentine recorder quartet " Pro Arte ", with which he made, among others, two European tours. He studied at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, at the Zurich School of Music and the Schola Cantorum in Basel, where he specialized in the instruments lute, baroque guitar and historic reed instruments. He was a member of the Italian ensemble ricercare and Jordi Savall's ensemble in Hesperion XX. It also had a long collaboration with the vocal and instrumental ensemble " Studio di Musica Antica Antonio Il Verso " from Palermo.
Since 1977 he teaches at the Centre for Early Music ( Centre de Musique Ancienne ) of the Geneva Conservatory recorder and ornament in the music of the 17th century. Here he founded the ensemble in 1981 Elyma.
After basic exploration of the repertoire and performance practice Garrido began in 1992 with a series of recordings of Latin American Baroque music under the title " Les Chemins du Baroque " for the French label "K 617 ". As a result, Garrido received an invitation from the International Music Council (IMC ) of UNESCO, master classes, lectures and concerts to keep dedicated to one of the Latin American baroque music international symposium in San Carlos de Bariloche. For this work he was awarded the "UNESCO Mozart Medal".
Garrido is also known for his performances of Italian music, especially the work of Claudio Monteverdi, as whose operas, ballets, vespers and a recording of the complete collection of sacred works, " Selva Morale e spirituale ". Since 1990 he runs at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, an annual opera performance. For his contributions to care of the Italian Baroque music in 2000 he was in Venice, awarded by the " Fondazione Giorgio Cini ".
Even international festival dedicated Garrido, including the Festival d' Ambronay, the Festival de Sarrebourg, the Festival de Beaune or the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music. At the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, he led performances of Monteverdi 's L'Orfeo (2001 ) and Jean -Philippe Rameau's Les Indes Galante ( 2002).
At the Festival of World Theatre in Mülheim an der Ruhr came in 2010 under his direction and directed by Claudio Valdés Kuri the opera Montezuma by Carl Heinrich Graun to a modern premiere.