Oscar Strasnoy

Oscar Strasnoy ( born November 12, 1970 in Buenos Aires ) is a composer, conductor and pianist of Russian descent, with Argentine and French nationality.

Life and career

Strasnoy studied playing the piano and composition at the National Conservatory in Buenos Aires, at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris ( Premier Prix in composition ) and at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt. His composition teachers have included Gérard Grisey and Hans Zender.

In the years from 1996 to 1998 he was music director of the Orchestre du CROUS in Paris and was honored in 1999 with the Orpheus Award at the Spoleto Festival in Italy for the opera Midea. After an invitation from Peter Eötvös as a composer at the mansion Edenkoben was the premiere for wedding preparations and then an exhibition at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart.

2003 was the premiere of the play Opérette by Gombrowicz in the Grand Théâtre de Reims, what Strasnoy received a prize. A year later, three pieces with new Vocal Soloists, Ann Murray and the Nash Ensemble and Paul Kildea were listed. By the year 2009 more plays were performed, and then the book Oscar Strasnoy: published La stratification de la mémoire.

On March 7, 2010 was the first performance of the opera La Bal in the Hamburg State Opera under the baton of Simone Young after an order by Irène Némirovsky.

Radio France, in collaboration with the Paris Théâtre du Châtelet, presented Strasnoy as guest composer of the festival Présences 2012, a retrospective of most of his works in 14 concerts.

Some works

Discography

  • " Two fragments of Midea ", CD Journées de la composition, Conservatoire de Paris, 1997
  • Bloc- notes de Midea (5 ), CD Cologne University of Music / Conservatoire de Paris, dir. Peter Eötvös, 1998
  • Two tangos ( " Derrumbe " and " Mano Brava " ) Paris - Buenos Aires, CD Until records, 2000
  • Wedding preparations ( B and K ) CD Chant du Monde ensemble 2e2m, you. Pierre Roullier, 2007
  • History (fragment ), CD of the Festival Warsaw Autumn. New Vocal Soloists Stuttgart. 2013
  • Orchestral Works, CD AEON, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Dima Slobodeniuk and Susanna Mälkki, conductors.

Honors

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