Eduardo Alonso-Crespo

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Biography

One of the Argentina’s most performed composers of today, Eduardo Alonso-Crespo is the author of six symphonies, fifteen concertos, two operas, two ballets, several chamber music works and choral music - as well as other orchestral works -, a production that has earned him a total of eighteen national and international awards and distinctions. His music has been performed by orchestras and ensembles from France, Italy, Spain, Holland, Portugal, Poland, Ukraine, Germany, Finland, the United Kingdom, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Japan, Israel, Canada, the United States, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina, and in such venues as the Colón Theater in Buenos Aires, the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Church of La Madelaine in Paris, De Doelen Great Hall in Rotterdam, the Teresa Carreño Theater in Caracas, La Fenice Theater in Venice and the Royal Palace of Queluz in Lisbon.

Eduardo Alonso-Crespo graduated from the School of Musical Arts of the National University of Tucumán, obtaining in that same university the title of civil engineer. He later studied at Carnegie Mellon University through a Fulbright grant and received his master’s degree in Orchestral and Choral Conducting. He served as visiting professor at the Carnegie Mellon School of Music for eighteen years.

As a conductor he served for twelve years as Music Director of the Tucumán Symphony Orchestra in Argentina, simultaneously acting as Musical Director of the Carnegie Mellon Contemporary Ensemble in the USA and maintaining an intense activity as a guest conductor in Argentina and abroad. He was a fundamental architect in the creation of the Salta Symphony Orchestra in Argentina, an organization of which he was Principal Guest Conductor and Resident Composer for several years. His guest conductor appearances include symphonic organizations from the United States, France, Portugal, Mexico, Chile, and Argentina.